Step 01. Pay
Southern California Edison Lineman Pay and Salary Information
Southern California Edison Linemen earn $130,000 annually, or around $62 per hour. Southern California Edison Including health insurance benefits.

Employer directory
Southern California Edison
13
2026 current openings
California
Headquarters
Groundmen · Apprentices · Journeymen
Hiring for
Utility · before you apply
Southern California Edison is hiring linemen. SCE is one of the nation's largest electric utilities, bringing clean and renewable energy sources to Southern California. Company materials describe employee work on energy storage, transportation electrification, and projects aimed at cutting emissions.
Step 01. Pay
Southern California Edison Linemen earn $130,000 annually, or around $62 per hour. Southern California Edison Including health insurance benefits.
Step 02. Apprentice
As a Groundman/ Apprentice Lineman at Southern Cal Edison you will assist and learn under a Journeyman Lineman in Building and Maintaining Powerlines for various Utility Contractors. This Job also consists of working sometimes in inclement weather such as Hurricanes, Snow Storms, Tornadoes, Hard Freezes, & Fires.
Step 03. Journeyman
Journeyman lineman at Southern California Edison constructs, maintains, and repairs overhead and underground transmission lines. Performs site preparation tasks, including digging holes or trenches, installing anchors, climbing poles, and using equipment like digger derricks, aerial lifts, pulling and tensioning equipment, forklifts, and dump trucks
Step 04. Hiring
Southern California Edison lineman required must be at least 18 years old, Must be able to pass pre-employment background.
Coverage map
Southern California Edison is listed on Lineman Central for hiring in California. Tap the shaded state for local jobs, pay, and schools.
HQ state from the employer directory. Multi-state footprints expand as we gather more.
See something off?
Work for this company, or apply here often? Spot a bad opening count, a missing hall, or are they operating in a new state? Send it in. Lineworkers and recruiters both keep these pages honest. We review tips before they go live.
Send a correctionCrew Experience Registry
Worked here, traveled in, or applied? Tell the next hand what it was actually like. Ratings stay anonymous in public. We verify submissions before anything shows, and we will not open the numbers until enough hands have chipped in.

$399 · 5 Weeks Online · Keep Your Day Job
The line trade around this employer
Tap a step. Programs feed crews, locals represent them, employers hire them.
Step 01. Schools
Start with the National Public Power online pre-apprenticeship, then compare college and trade programs employers hire from.

National Public Power Pre-Apprenticeship
Enroll
Imperial Valley College Lineman Program
View
California-Nevada Electrical Apprenticeship
View
East Los Angeles Skills Center Lineman School
View
American Lineman College
View
American Career Training Electrical Lineworker Program
View
Northwest Lineman College California
ViewStep 02. Unions
Locals we've seen tied to this employer's system. Utility crews are usually hired direct, not dispatched off the books.

IBEW 47
Local
IBEW 18
Local
IBEW 465
Local
IBEW 6
LocalStep 03. Peers
Utilities, co-ops, and contractors competing for the same crews. Compare openings and apply paths.

Bergelectric
View
Merwin Group
View
Sierra Pacific Power
View
Alameda Municipal Power
View
Cupertino Electric
View
Riverside Public Utilities
ViewKeep exploring