Network & Telecom System Integration Services Manager (Telecommunications)

Location: Hybrid in Fullerton, California; employees must work and reside in California unless otherwise noted. The role requires reporting to an SCE facility on set days, remote work on remaining days, and up to 25% travel throughout the SCE service territory. Relocation does not apply.

Salary: $143,900–$215,800 per year.

Company

hirify.global operates electric-grid infrastructure and supports the transition toward cleaner energy technologies.

What you will do

• Lead and supervise represented telecommunications technicians constructing, installing, integrating, and supporting the enterprise telecommunications network.
• Lead major telecommunications projects for internal IT initiatives and transmission and distribution infrastructure, including substations, transmission projects, customer interconnections, and other critical grid projects.
• Coordinate engineering, project management, construction, business, vendor, and field stakeholders to plan and execute work.
• Collect and report network performance data, analyze trends, develop corrective solutions, and create growth projections for upcoming projects.
• Design and implement telecommunications and networking solutions for substations, data centers, service centers, and control centers, including application, meter, and communication-device upgrades.
• Manage project development, budgets, schedules, cost estimates, risks, impediments, vendor logistics, reporting, close-out, and performance monitoring.

Requirements

• Five or more years of combined experience performing or supervising proprietary telecommunications systems.
• Experience in telecom network engineering and operations.
• Valid Class C Driver's License.
• Ability to protect physical, financial, cybersecurity, customer, proprietary, medical, and other sensitive information with high standards of conduct and integrity.
• Ability to work in a hybrid arrangement in California, report to an SCE facility on designated days, and travel or work in the field for up to 25% of the time.
• Successful completion of a NERC/CIP Personnel Risk Assessment or Background Investigation and specified training before receiving unescorted access to assigned work locations.

Nice to have

• Thorough knowledge of telecommunications systems, including transmission systems, voice, and data, and their role in electric-grid operations.
• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or a technical field.
• Experience supervising bargaining-unit employees in telecommunications and networking.
• Strong decision-making, project-risk identification and mitigation, and judgment under severe time constraints.
• Experience managing large, complex schedules, balancing workloads and resources, and establishing priorities.
• Current knowledge of telecommunications technologies, including digital transmission, IP, telephony, and wireless technologies.
• Ability to implement and optimize processes to improve quality, cost, and time.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work with set on-site days and remote work on remaining days, subject to business needs.
• Work supporting safety, reliability, modernization, and cleaner energy technologies.
• Leadership and employee-development responsibilities, including coaching, feedback, recognition, and succession planning.
• Work governed in part by the IBEW Collective Bargaining Agreement, including labor issue and grievance resolution.
• Safety, environmental, regulatory, and company requirements are central to the role.