Manager, Corporate Security Project Management Office (PMO)

Join the clean energy revolution and help build a better tomorrow by leading a large portfolio of construction and pioneering physical security technology projects. Collaborate with the Senior Manager of the Corporate Security Project Management Office (PMO) to implement solutions that safeguard SCE’s workforce, assets, and reputation while supporting compliance with evolving North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) standards.

About the role

This is a hands-on leadership role for an execution-oriented manager who can translate strategy into action, bring structure to complex work, and drive accountability across project teams, vendors, contractors (100+ contractors), and business partners. The successful candidate will combine project management discipline, technical curiosity, business judgment, strong interpersonal influence, and a clear bias for action to advance security technology initiatives in a high-visibility, deadline-driven environment. A strong sense of urgency is critical for success.

Employees are expected to support emergency response and/or business continuity efforts, including readiness to serve on an Incident Management Team (IMT) when needed. Participation in an on-call rotation (approximately every four to six weeks) is required to support IMT activations during emergency events. IMT assignments may differ from regular responsibilities.

Responsibilities

• Oversees project financials including budgeting, tracking, and reporting.
• Leads, coaches, and develops project management staff to enhance their capabilities.
• Implements and improves processes for project intake, prioritization, and governance.
• Monitors project risks, issues, and dependencies and takes corrective actions to keep projects on track.
• Ensures effective project governance and reporting in-line with SCE project management standards.
• Monitors cash flow planning and activates appropriate critical issue project procedures.
• Ensures key deliverables and install quantities are measured, reported, and analyzed.
• Develops and maintains project parameters to meet project requirements and goals.
• Identifies potential project risks and monitors closure and resolutions of all identified risks and opportunities.
• Identifies and evaluates key processes for opportunities in effectiveness, control, and efficiency, recommending and implementing improvements.
• Provides direction and participates in project planning, scheduling, estimating, cost development, and establishment of critical project objectives.
• Executes the scoping, due diligence, feasibility assessment, and success of projects across SCE.
• Implements quality standards, reviews project deliverables, and communicates variances accordingly.
• Manages project activities and resources to maximize efficiency and minimize conflicts.
• Ensures the protection of SCE’s physical, financial, and cybersecurity assets, and properly manages sensitive information with the highest standards of conduct and integrity.

Requirements

• Five or more years of combined experience performing or supervising project management.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Business, Engineering, Computer Science, or related discipline (preferred).
• Experience in management of security and/or systems engineering/technology initiatives, developing and driving project budgets, and handling third-party contracts (preferred).
• Experience leading the design and implementation of enterprise-wide security infrastructure or other compliance systems (preferred).
• Experience with critical infrastructure protection requirements, physical security technology controls, threat assessments, and mitigation tactics (preferred).
• Experience leading teams or matrixed resources through project execution, issue resolution, vendor coordination, stakeholder management, and delivery accountability (preferred).
• Experience with a major law enforcement, intelligence, public, or private sector security organization (preferred).
• Experience interfacing and collaborating with executive and senior management, peers, regulatory agencies, and external clients to develop solutions and ensure consensus (preferred).
• Experience conceptualizing and implementing numerous and far-reaching physical security technology programmatic initiatives (preferred).
• Strong leadership experience to lead a successful team, recruit, retain, hire team members, and mentor employees and new leaders (preferred).
• Excellent, engaging, and persuasive communication and presentation skills (oral & written), both one-on-one and for large audiences (preferred).
• US Citizenship (preferred).

Schedule

This position’s work mode is hybrid. The employee will report to an SCE facility for a set number of days with the option to work remotely on the remaining days. The work mode can be changed based on business needs.