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Remote substation electrical engineer jobs are open across the U.S. in power utilities, renewable energy, and grid infrastructure, with employers ranging from regional transmission organizations to engineering consultancies running distributed teams. Employers hiring remotely right now include AECOM, Welty Enterprises, and WSP. Find a role that fits below and apply directly.
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Join the Clean Energy Revolution
Become the Engineering Senior Manager, Substation Electrical Engineering at Southern California Edison (SCE) and help shape how the electric grid of the future is designed and delivered. You will lead a geographically diverse engineering organization, organized across four regions, responsible for the electrical engineering and design of more than 300 substation capital projects annually across SCE’s service territory. As a key leader within Transmission & Substation Engineering (TSE), you will provide strategic direction to engineering managers, technical leaders, engineers, and engineering partners while advancing our Best-in-Class vision for engineering excellence, safety, workforce development, digital innovation, and operational performance. You will champion Intelligent Design & Construction (IDC), engineering quality, cycle-time improvement, contractor performance, and cross-functional collaboration to help deliver the grid modernization, wildfire mitigation, reliability, and clean energy infrastructure that powers Southern California’s future.
Responsibilities
- Leads a variety of engineering and business initiatives to develop grid strategies, determine how the grid is planned, designed, operated and maintained to operationalize company's strategy
- Manages and prioritizes the engineering roadmap in collaboration with other departments; develops and implements strategies for improving execution efficiency
- Leads, manages and supports the project engineering group and remains responsible and accountable for their team's delivery of small to large scale projects
- Manages execution performance of their teams, identifying barriers, and prioritizing work for their teams to ensure projects are delivered on-time, within scope and within budgets
- Reviews and makes decisions on project plans, resource allocation, risk assessment, mitigation strategies, budgets, and resources to ensure timely and successful delivery of capital and strategic projects Oversee the development and implementation of a comprehensive project management framework to ensure efficient project execution, reporting, and delivery of goals within budget
- Drives the adoption of digitalization and automation technologies to improve engineering processes, reduce manual effort, and enhance project outcomes
- Leads the development and maintains a robust risk management strategy to identify, assess, and mitigate risks associated with engineering projects
- Develops goals and assigns projects/roles to employees that translate corporate strategic vision into actionable initiatives to delegate.
- Leads the development and implementation of cross organizational strategy, technology and safety program to ensure company advancement toward future vision and the well-being of employees and contractors involved in engineering projects
- 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.
Minimum Qualifications
- Five or more years of experience supervising a team of direct reports and/or project management.
- Experience performing engineering work in operations, production, construction or maintenance environments.
Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or a related engineering discipline; advanced degree, Professional Engineer (PE) license, or equivalent advanced technical or leadership qualifications preferred.
- Ten or more years of progressively responsible engineering, utility, infrastructure, or capital project delivery experience, including demonstrated experience leading managers, engineers, and large multidisciplinary technical organizations.
- Demonstrated experience leading substation engineering, transmission engineering, utility design, construction support, or other complex electric utility capital infrastructure programs.
- Proven success leading engineering organizations accountable for safe, high-quality, and predictable execution, including engineering quality, schedule performance, resource management, contractor performance, and delivery of business commitments.
- Demonstrated success improving engineering productivity, quality, cycle time, and delivery performance through process improvement, technical governance, standardization, performance metrics, and data-driven decision-making.
- Proven ability to build and sustain high-performing organizations through coaching and development, succession planning, workforce planning, talent management, technical capability development, and leadership development.
- Demonstrated ability to lead large-scale engineering portfolios, establish priorities, manage organizational capacity and risk, and balance competing commitments across multiple programs, stakeholders, and geographic regions.
- Demonstrated commitment to safety leadership through field engagement, proactive risk identification and mitigation, organizational learning, and fostering a culture of ownership and accountability.
- Demonstrated ability to influence, align, and collaborate across engineering, project delivery, operations, planning, construction, environmental, procurement, contractors, and executive leadership to resolve complex issues and achieve enterprise objectives.
- Strong strategic planning, project sponsorship, risk management, and governance experience, with demonstrated ability to translate organizational strategy into measurable engineering and business outcomes.
- Demonstrated ability to foster a psychologically safe, inclusive, and high-performing work environment that promotes constructive challenge, collaboration, innovation, employee engagement, accountability, and engineering excellence.
- Experience leading or sponsoring digital transformation within engineering organizations, including engineering automation, AI-enabled solutions, advanced design platforms, 3D modeling, digital twins, or Intelligent Design & Construction (IDC) capabilities.
Additional Information
- 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 Pomona, CA (PIV 1).
- Position will require up to 30% 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.
About Southern California Edison
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.
Nearest Major Market: Los Angeles
Join the Clean Energy Revolution
Become the Engineering Senior Manager, Substation Electrical Engineering at Southern California Edison (SCE) and help shape how the electric grid of the future is designed and delivered. You will lead a geographically diverse engineering organization, organized across four regions, responsible for the electrical engineering and design of more than 300 substation capital projects annually across SCE’s service territory. As a key leader within Transmission & Substation Engineering (TSE), you will provide strategic direction to engineering managers, technical leaders, engineers, and engineering partners while advancing our Best-in-Class vision for engineering excellence, safety, workforce development, digital innovation, and operational performance. You will champion Intelligent Design & Construction (IDC), engineering quality, cycle-time improvement, contractor performance, and cross-functional collaboration to help deliver the grid modernization, wildfire mitigation, reliability, and clean energy infrastructure that powers Southern California’s future.
Responsibilities
- Leads a variety of engineering and business initiatives to develop grid strategies, determine how the grid is planned, designed, operated and maintained to operationalize company's strategy
- Manages and prioritizes the engineering roadmap in collaboration with other departments; develops and implements strategies for improving execution efficiency
- Leads, manages and supports the project engineering group and remains responsible and accountable for their team's delivery of small to large scale projects
- Manages execution performance of their teams, identifying barriers, and prioritizing work for their teams to ensure projects are delivered on-time, within scope and within budgets
- Reviews and makes decisions on project plans, resource allocation, risk assessment, mitigation strategies, budgets, and resources to ensure timely and successful delivery of capital and strategic projects Oversee the development and implementation of a comprehensive project management framework to ensure efficient project execution, reporting, and delivery of goals within budget
- Drives the adoption of digitalization and automation technologies to improve engineering processes, reduce manual effort, and enhance project outcomes
- Leads the development and maintains a robust risk management strategy to identify, assess, and mitigate risks associated with engineering projects
- Develops goals and assigns projects/roles to employees that translate corporate strategic vision into actionable initiatives to delegate.
- Leads the development and implementation of cross organizational strategy, technology and safety program to ensure company advancement toward future vision and the well-being of employees and contractors involved in engineering projects
- 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.
Minimum Qualifications
- Five or more years of experience supervising a team of direct reports and/or project management.
- Experience performing engineering work in operations, production, construction or maintenance environments.
Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or a related engineering discipline; advanced degree, Professional Engineer (PE) license, or equivalent advanced technical or leadership qualifications preferred.
- Ten or more years of progressively responsible engineering, utility, infrastructure, or capital project delivery experience, including demonstrated experience leading managers, engineers, and large multidisciplinary technical organizations.
- Demonstrated experience leading substation engineering, transmission engineering, utility design, construction support, or other complex electric utility capital infrastructure programs.
- Proven success leading engineering organizations accountable for safe, high-quality, and predictable execution, including engineering quality, schedule performance, resource management, contractor performance, and delivery of business commitments.
- Demonstrated success improving engineering productivity, quality, cycle time, and delivery performance through process improvement, technical governance, standardization, performance metrics, and data-driven decision-making.
- Proven ability to build and sustain high-performing organizations through coaching and development, succession planning, workforce planning, talent management, technical capability development, and leadership development.
- Demonstrated ability to lead large-scale engineering portfolios, establish priorities, manage organizational capacity and risk, and balance competing commitments across multiple programs, stakeholders, and geographic regions.
- Demonstrated commitment to safety leadership through field engagement, proactive risk identification and mitigation, organizational learning, and fostering a culture of ownership and accountability.
- Demonstrated ability to influence, align, and collaborate across engineering, project delivery, operations, planning, construction, environmental, procurement, contractors, and executive leadership to resolve complex issues and achieve enterprise objectives.
- Strong strategic planning, project sponsorship, risk management, and governance experience, with demonstrated ability to translate organizational strategy into measurable engineering and business outcomes.
- Demonstrated ability to foster a psychologically safe, inclusive, and high-performing work environment that promotes constructive challenge, collaboration, innovation, employee engagement, accountability, and engineering excellence.
- Experience leading or sponsoring digital transformation within engineering organizations, including engineering automation, AI-enabled solutions, advanced design platforms, 3D modeling, digital twins, or Intelligent Design & Construction (IDC) capabilities.
Additional Information
- 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 Pomona, CA (PIV 1).
- Position will require up to 30% 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.
About Southern California Edison
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.
Nearest Major Market: Los Angeles
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What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in remote substation electrical engineer jobs.
- Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering or a closely related field required
- Experience with protection and control system design for transmission or distribution substations
- Proficiency in AutoCAD or MicroStation for substation design drawings and schematics
- Familiarity with IEEE and ANSI standards for substation equipment and system protection
- Professional Engineer (PE) license required or actively in progress for many senior roles
- Experience with SCADA systems, relay programming, or substation automation platforms
Tips for Your Remote Substation Electrical Engineer Job Search
Show your async design communication skills
Remote substation electrical engineer employers want to know you can communicate technical decisions in writing. Include examples in your application of written design reviews, protection coordination notes, or RFI responses you've authored, so hiring teams can see how you work without being in the room.
Apply early to remote roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists remote substation electrical engineer openings from across the U.S. in one place, so you can find roles that match your experience and apply directly. Applying early in a posting's life increases your chances before the role fills.
Highlight remote-ready technical tools on your resume
Call out the specific software you use independently: AutoCAD, ETAP, SKM PowerTools, or protection relay programming platforms. Remote employers screen for candidates who can open a tool and produce deliverables without on-site mentorship or shared workstations.
Prepare for distributed-team interview formats
Remote substation electrical engineer interviews often include a take-home design exercise or a screen-share review of past single-line diagrams or relay settings files. Practice walking through your design logic clearly on video, since that mirrors how you'll collaborate with the team day to day.
Remote Substation Electrical Engineer Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I get a remote substation electrical engineer job?
Remote substation electrical engineer roles go to candidates who can demonstrate self-direction and clear written communication alongside core technical skills. Employers screening for remote hires pay close attention to experience with relay protection design, AutoCAD or CYMATICS, and familiarity with NERC standards. Candidates who show they can interpret specs, flag issues asynchronously, and move projects forward without daily check-ins consistently edge out equally qualified applicants who can't demonstrate those habits.
Which companies hire remote substation electrical engineers?
Companies hiring remote substation electrical engineers right now include AECOM, Welty Enterprises, and WSP, based on current remote listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Remote openings for this role come primarily from engineering consultancies, renewable energy developers, and transmission system operators that run distributed project teams.
Can you get a remote substation electrical engineer job with no experience?
Yes, but remote entry-level substation electrical engineer roles are harder to land because employers expect you to work independently from day one. Smaller engineering consultancies and renewable energy firms are more likely to take on junior remote hires. Showing proficiency in protection and control software, sharing design coursework or personal projects, and demonstrating strong written communication can open doors when direct work history is limited.
Do you need a degree for remote substation electrical engineer jobs?
Usually, yes. Most remote substation electrical engineer postings require a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering or a closely related field, and many specify a PE license for senior roles. That said, remote employers also weigh demonstrated proficiency with relay coordination, SCADA systems, and relevant design tools, so a strong portfolio of completed projects can reinforce an application where a credential alone wouldn't.
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