Southern California Edison Employer Reviews

Stable employment, can plan for a future. Good opportunities for learning, a lot of projects going on.

I loved the work that I did and enjoyed working with my collegues. Unfortunately, no job security even when you are a high performing individual or loyal to the company.

Good place to lean about utility industry. Team projects with regulatory deadlines.

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The day starts with meetings, find out the acheivements, discuss about the issues.
Communicate with team, brain Strom.

Nice work culture, where you get a chance to improve your existing skills and learn new. Cooperative team members and skilled management, very good process flow from end to end. Flexible work mode(choose your area of interest). Training will be provided in newer technologies.

By far the best Organization I've worked for. Management is extremely supportive. Work ethics are top notch.

Working in this utility company provides me an unique opportunity to work on various types of projects, from major capital projects with budgets over 2 million to various types of small to medium sized projects dealing with Operations and Maintenance.

Aside from the routine production work, a workday often included problem solving for unanticipated issues arising at the plant. It was quite a learning experience because one is exposed to many facets of engineering. However, Edison work process was extremely complicated and inefficient. Every simple task had an inordinate amount of paperwork associated – more... with it. – less

Constant, unorganized, not effective thought-out changes and reorganizations to tasks, reporting structures, departments, etc. Chaotic: extremely difficult to maintain composure and postive, enthusiastic attitude to get to work, keep job, etc. Toxic work environment; brown-nosing, intimidation; back-stabbing. Promotions, telecommuting, special allowances – more... not by earning them but by "who" you know. Old boys club mentality. Way behind technology or completely absent to foster efficiency and self-growth. Hypocrites - compay doesn't care about the 'person' only the bottom line. Extreme micro management to the point of suffocation. Performance appraisals are a joke - one-sided. Reporting retaliation, ethics violations, etc. to HR on numerous occassions went nowhere/presented no improvements or changes. – less

Go to group tailboard and discuss what the schedule is for the day, get appropriate tools and supplies. Head out to truck and get situated then proceed out to your route for the rest of the day. At the end of the work day you fill out your own timesheet and give to supervision.

Was a stable place to work for many years but currently downsizing.

Great place to work!
Relaxed environment and great people to work with

I had the pleasure to work at SCE for six years. It was a great place to work. I learned a great deal about the Utilities industry. As with most companies, you will run into some great managers and some not-so-great managers. The company does a great job of helping guide you towards your desired career path if you are recently out of college.

Very educational environment. Co-workers were very helpful and enjoyable to work with.
Management has open door policy, You can voice out your opinion and raise a concern with fear of retaliation.
This company gives a lot to their employees and to the public.

SCE is currently in transition. Leadership is trying to modify the structure of bureaucracy and waste. Bad press and other ongoing challenges (such as the very costly San Onofre Nuclear Generator leak) are putting pressure on management to seek solutions.

General overview - please see ratings.

Good company to work for: good work-life balance.

pick up routes at office early in the morning, early on in job walk all routes within given timeframe. co-workers were friendly and out going. job was being eliminated and not many opportunities for advancement if you didn't want to become a groundman who is basically a glorified go-fer. management kept to themselves and didn't really look out for anyone – more... but themselves. However, they gave us our space and allowed us to get our work done. most enjoyable part was working outdoors and working alone, meeting people all over from all different walks of life – less

Everyone is willing to help you understand something if you need it. Tend to do just one job a day because it tends to take a while to get it cleared to be able to do it. Hardest part of job is the long work days since I had a hour drive one way that made my work days at least 12 hours and somethings during the outage 14 hours. Worked 4 to 6 days a – more... week and each day was at least 10 hours. Best part of the job was that it has a slower pace of doing work since it is a nuclear plant. – less

worked in the energy efficiency dept. nice people to work with answered and handled 80+ calls per day however very few complicated and stressful calls. Our manager was awesome she is fun, easy going, very flexible and understanding. We had a lot of free lunches, snacks, prizes and a lot of employee events to keep us motivated and stress free, including – more... ergo breaks which allowed us to stretch. – less

I WORKED IN THE YARD. LEARNED WELDING, DRILLING, AND COURIER DRIVING ALSO CERTIFIED FORK LIFT DRIVER. MANAGEMENT WAS HELPFUL AS WELL AS CO WORKERS. HARDEST PART WAS DEALING WITH THE WEATHER, AND MOST ENJOYABLE BECOMING PART OF THIS COMPANY.