Senior Manager, Distribution Engineering (Metro West)

Location: Hybrid; primary work location in Dominguez Hills, California, with required residence and work in California. The role may also require extended work at facilities in Santa Monica, Whittier, Long Beach, and South Bay, plus up to 20% travel and field work throughout the SCE service territory.

Salary: $182,800–$274,100 per year.

Company

hirify.global provides electric utility services focused on clean energy, grid reliability, safety, and innovation in Southern California.

What you will do

• Lead engineering and business initiatives that define grid strategies and improve how the distribution grid is planned, designed, operated, and maintained.
• Manage the engineering roadmap, project engineering organization, resource allocation, execution performance, budgets, schedules, and delivery of small- to large-scale projects.
• Review project plans, risk assessments, mitigation strategies, and capital project decisions while maintaining a project management framework.
• Drive digitalization, automation, productivity improvement, cycle-time reduction, engineering quality, and operational excellence through data-driven performance metrics.
• Develop risk management, technology, safety, workforce, and cross-organizational strategies aligned with corporate objectives.
• Collaborate with Engineering, Planning, Operations, Construction, Environmental Services, Permitting, executive leadership, contractors, and external stakeholders.

Requirements

• At least five years of experience supervising direct reports and/or managing projects.
• Experience performing engineering work in operations, production, construction, or maintenance environments.
• The position requires residence in California and work from an SCE facility under a hybrid schedule.
• Ability to complete a NERC/CIP Personnel Risk Assessment or background investigation and required training before receiving unescorted access to assigned work locations.

Nice to have

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Electrical Engineering or a related engineering discipline.
• At least five years leading large engineering or utility organizations, including managers, engineers, and technical professionals, with accountability for execution, operations, workforce planning, employee development, safety, quality, and business results.
• Experience managing engineering execution, safety, quality, schedule performance, contractor oversight, workforce planning, and employee development.
• Experience leading large-scale engineering portfolios across multiple programs, stakeholders, and geographic regions.
• Experience improving engineering productivity, cycle time, quality, and operational performance through data-driven decision-making and metrics.
• Experience with strategic planning, project sponsorship, portfolio governance, risk management, and collaboration with executive leadership, operations, construction, environmental services, and external stakeholders.
• Demonstrated safety leadership through field engagement, risk identification, organizational learning, accountability, and continuous improvement.
• Ability to create a psychologically safe, inclusive, collaborative, innovative, and high-performing work environment.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work mode with a set number of days at an SCE facility and remote work on remaining days.
• Work focused on clean energy, reduced carbon emissions, grid reliability, safety, and customer and community outcomes.
• Emphasis on accountability, innovation, continuous improvement, employee development, inclusion, and engineering excellence.
• Work mode may change according to business needs.

Hiring process

• Work-mode details will be discussed during the interview stage.
• Successful candidates must pass the required pre-employment Personnel Risk Assessment or background investigation and complete specified training.