Description
Summary
In this role you will partner with Line Operations craft and other operations personnel to facilitate proper operation of electric power distribution and transmission systems, to meet power demands and power quality requirements. You may be asked to perform electrical analyses and provide real-time engineering for capital and maintenance activities. This position also recommends improvements associated with design and construction of overhead and underground distribution facilities, standards, operations, materials and new technology, with emphasis on high reliability and quality of service. You will support field operations, customer account management, OPUC liaisons, planning and key stakeholder groups, with a high level of visibility and moderate autonomy.
Responsibilities
- Engineering Standards Maintains currency in state-of-the-art engineering practices and provides guidance and direction on engineering processes and standards to colleagues when requested. Provides professional engineering expertise on distribution design, code interpretation and distribution standards and equipment specifications (e.g., switches, reclosers, network protectors, distribution automation equipment); provides expertise in distribution design and code interpretation to resolve complex problems on the distribution system.
- Engineering Production Prepares a variety of complex engineering deliverables for larger or multiple projects; coordinates multiple- discipline activity. Completes and reviews engineering analyses and prioritizes and supports complex system restoration efforts involving network systems, core areas and major customers; works with line crews to solve problems found in the field; identifies trends/patterns in outage reports and proposes solutions to complex distribution reliability problems; proposes distribution expansion projects needed to increase operational flexibility; responds to unplanned outages and leads efforts to restore the distribution system and service to customers.
- Project Coordination Actively coordinates with other internal/external team members on moderately complex projects, including representing the team to interdepartmental stakeholders. Proposes projects needed for expansion of the distribution system to add capacity and operational flexibility; provides recommendations to management for viable alternative solutions to complex distribution reliability and system-hardening problems; serves as work order owner for distribution maintenance and feeder getaway projects.
- Knowledge Sharing Serves as a technical specialist and provides consultation/guidance to project teams in a particular practice area; actively fosters knowledge management and provides mentoring; implements resource-management strategy.
- Customer Support Serves as a liaison to external customers; provides job status updates, requests additional design information, investigates outages and power quality issues, follows up on customer technical issues and provides information to Distribution Planning.
- Customer Relations Understands the wholistic impact of a customer relationship and builds trusted relationships working directly with customer's technical staff; communicates complex concepts to customers.
Minimum Qualifications
P3 - Sr. Level
- Education: Requires a bachelor's degree in engineering. ABET-accredited engineering program or program accredited by an equivalent agency preferred.
- Experience Typically 5 years or more years in engineering or four or more years in a related field with PE license.
- Certifications, Licenses and Training Professional Engineering (PE) license strongly preferred; may be required based upon role.
- Valid Drivers License required
Preferred Qualifications
- Previous experience at a Utility, or Power Generation Plants
- Field Engineering
- Advanced knowledge of engineering and economic principles and concepts.
- Advanced knowledge of other engineering disciplines and advanced ability to interpret engineering deliverable content as assigned.
- Advanced knowledge and application of engineering processes and procedures; working knowledge of other related departments and functions.
- Advanced industry knowledge and technology trends.
- Advanced knowledge of company QA/QC process and procedures.
- Intermediate knowledge of construction feasibility.
- Intermediate knowledge of procurement and contract administration.
- Advanced knowledge of process and procedures for project controls and estimates.
- Intermediate knowledge of applicable codes and standards related to the design and operation of the electrical distribution system.
- Intermediate skill designing overhead and underground distribution facilities, including relevant civil and electrical subsystems.
- Advanced knowledge of real-time and off-line power flow and power system analysis software applications.
- Advanced knowledge of work management, asset management, GIS and outage-management software applications.
- Advanced knowledge of distribution protection schemes and device-coordination principles.
Contact
Portland General Electric Company
121 SW Salmon St
Portland
Oregon United States
www.portlandgeneral.com
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