Laboratory Project Manager Jobs in California (NOW HIRING)

plays a critical role in managing safe, efficient, and scalable laboratory operations that support Southern California Edison's technology development, testing, and demonstration activities. This position provides strategic and operational leadership across laboratory services, ensuring that lab environments, processes, and partnerships are aligned with organizational objectives and evolving business needs.

You will be leading a team that is focuses on developing, documenting, implementing, and maintaining holistic operational processes and policies that support collaboration across multiple departments and stakeholders. You will oversee the team responsible for the full laboratory project portfolio, including long-term strategic initiatives, lab enhancement efforts, and internal and external Grid Technology Development projects, while ensuring consistency, safety, and compliance across lab operations.

also leads the team in stakeholder engagement and coordination activities, including managing third-party laboratory services and supporting high-visibility lab tours and demonstrations. This leader will drive operational excellence, strengthen external partnerships, and enhance SCE's industry leadership in laboratory-based innovation.

• Leads a select set of engineering and business initiatives to develop grid strategies, determine how the grid is planned, designed, operated, and maintained to operationalize company's strategy.
• Develops and maintains a project portfolio management system to prioritize projects, allocate resources, and monitor performance.
• Evaluates new technologies and methodologies to enhance project efficiency, cost-effectiveness, and sustainability, designing and implementing improvement projects and new systems to support site initiatives and improve operational efficiency.
• Establishes and maintains relationships with external partners, vendors, and contractors to support project delivery and innovation.
• Coaches engineering teams on professional development opportunities to enhance their skills and knowledge.
• Leads the development and implementation of a comprehensive strategy, technology and safety program to ensure company advancement toward future vision and the well-being of employees and contractors involved in engineering projects.
• Manages the engineering team that provides emergent and routine trouble-shooting support for plant technical needs. Manages various contract engineers and works with those individuals to ensure consistency and quality in design, delivery milestone dates, and cost.
• Leads the design and implementation of new equipment and cost-effective equipment modifications to help improve safety, reliability, and throughput.
• Develops goals for engineering team and assigns projects/roles to employees that translate Sr. Manager levels goals into actionable tasks.
• A material job duty of all positions within the Company is ensuring the protection of all its physical, financial and cybersecurity assets, and properly accessing and managing private customer data, proprietary information, confidential medical records, and other types of highly sensitive information and data with the highest standards of conduct and integrity.

• Five or more years of combined experience performing or supervising engineering work.
• Experience in operations, production, construction or maintenance environments.

• Strong organizational and process development skills, with experience creating, documenting, and maintaining procedures, workflows, or governance frameworks that improve consistency, efficiency, and cross functional alignment.
• Demonstrated strength in project or program management, including planning, prioritization, execution, and tracking of complex initiatives involving multiple stakeholders and competing priorities.
• Experience managing both capital and operations and maintenance (O&M) budgets, including planning, forecasting, prioritizing expenditures, and ensuring resources are aligned with business objectives and operational needs.
• Proven ability to lead and coordinate cross functional efforts, working effectively with engineering, operations, vendors, and leadership to drive outcomes without direct authority.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with experience preparing clear documentation, executive level summaries, and facilitating discussions across technical and non-technical audiences.
• Demonstrated ability to engage stakeholders and external partners, align expectations, and represent organizational capabilities in meetings, reviews, or site visits.
• Background working in structured, operational, or regulated environments where safety, consistency, and accountability are important, even if not laboratory specific.
• Experience in supporting engineering design and integration of various grid and edge technologies, e.g. energy storage, generators, microgrids, transformers, relays, sensors, etc.
• Strong understanding and technical capability to deliver advanced technology demonstration projects from concept to field deployment.
• Experience working hands on in lab environment for instrumentation, testing and validation of range of grid and edge technologies (e.g. energy storage, generators, microgrids, transformers, sensors).

• 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. Unless otherwise noted, employees are required to work and reside in the state of California. Further details of this work mode will be discussed at the interview stage. The work mode can be changed based on business needs.
• Visit our Candidate Resource page to get meaningful information related to benefits, perks, resources, testing information, hiring process, and more!
• Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.
• The primary work location for this position is Westminster, CA. However, the successful candidate may also be asked to work for an extended amount of time at Pomona, CA.
• Position will require up to 60% traveling and being out in the field throughout the SCE service territory.
• This position has been identified as a NERC/CIP impacted position - Prior to being hired, the successful candidate must pass a Personnel Risk Assessment (PRA) or Background Investigation. Once hired, the candidate must complete specified training prior to gaining un-escorted access to assigned work location and performing necessary job duties.

The people at SCE don't just keep the lights on. Our mission is so much bigger. We're fueling the kind of innovation that's changing an entire industry, and quite possibly the planet. Join us and create a future with cleaner energy, while providing our customers with the safety and reliability they demand. At SCE, you'll have a chance to grow personally and professionally, making a real impact in Southern California and around the world.

Southern California Edison is a proud Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status.

We are committed to ensuring that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodations at AskHR@sce.com or (626) 302-3456 and select option 2.