Summary
Capital Planning Subfunction: Performs technical validation on project scope and objectives, including project cost benefit analysis and project prioritization on PGE's capital investments. Manage intake of new capital projects and programs through ideation, evaluation, technical scope development and project authorization and ensures projects deliver on expected value and benefits aligns with corporate initiatives.
Career Level Summary
Principal Capital Portfolio Planning Engineer 7164
Grade 8
Career Level: P4
- Specialist Professional: Requires specialized depth and/or breadth of expertise.
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Interprets internal or external business issues and recommends best practices.
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Solves complex problems; takes a broad perspective to identify innovative solutions.
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Works independently, with guidance in only the most complex situations.
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May lead functional teams or projects.
Key Responsibilities
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Engineering Standards: Maintains currency in state-of-the-art engineering practices and discerns need for and provides guidance and direction to colleagues on engineering processes and standards.
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Engineering Validation: Verifies a variety of complex engineering deliverables for larger or multiple projects, including establishing work plans to be applied.
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Portfolio Management: Facilitates the portfolio intake and prioritization process, including alignment to standards. Performs technical review of proposed project or program and proposes scope changes to ensure the project delivers the expected value and benefits. Assists leadership with tracking of incoming project work. Conducts and supports regular meetings (monthly, quarterly and annually) to review new portfolio requests and determine priority. Understands the impact of additions and/or changes on resources, construction sequencing and delivery. Works with stakeholders and functional teams to logically group projects for efficient delivery. Understands interdependencies across projects and programs. Identify and qualify project benefits and support benefits realization. Applies engineering or related experience to validate project scope and objectives. Align project or program with strategic goals. Identify and evaluate risks. Provides input and evaluation for project charter; review changes to the project environment, including schedules, priorities, tasks, etc. Lead on-site meetings to scope project/program and solicit input from subject matter experts; lead field validation efforts as needed; identify sufficient resource availability to achieve deliverables; acquire estimates for scoped projects by working with stakeholders in T&D, Substation, Generation, Transmission Delivery, Wildfire, and other departments; to ensure cross-organizational commitments are in place. Assess portfolio demands and make recommendations to Portfolio Manager and governance leadership. Ensure proper hand-off to Project Management Office. Evaluate progress against objectives throughout life of project/program and provide feedback; serves as an escalation point for high-level issues and challenges affecting project/program beyond the project manager; serves as a leadership liaison between the project team and the executive team; monitor business developments and decisions outside of project/program purview that may affect project/program; evaluate status report information; approve or deny changes to baseline plan; advise on go/no-go decisions at project gating review points. Assist project closeout report; participate in lessons learned meeting and implement applicable findings; evaluate project performance based on adherence to project specifications/success criteria; agrees to project closure and official release of resources; confirms administrative close of project; performs post-project project benefit realization analysis.
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Project Coordination: Actively coordinates with other internal/external team members on complex projects, representing the team to internal and external stakeholders (i.e., regulatory, technical society, etc.).
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Knowledge Sharing: Actively advances knowledge management of the enterprise and provides mentoring; participates in professional societies and technical committees and may assist with code/standard authoring; is externally recognized in the industry as a technical expert; reviews engineering work, resolves resource conflicts and identifies training needs.
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Process Improvement: Creation and continuous improvement of business processes in support of the Project Delivery Framework.
Qualifications
Education/Experience/Certifications:
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Requires a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from ABET-accredited engineering program or program accredited by an equivalent agency.
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Typically eight or more years in related field.
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Professional Engineering (PE) license strongly preferred; is not required.
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Valid driver's license required.
Competencies
Functional Competencies:
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Expert knowledge of engineering and economic principles and concepts.
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Advanced knowledge of other engineering disciplines and advanced ability to interpret engineering deliverable content as assigned.
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Expert understanding and application of engineering processes and procedures; intermediate knowledge of other related departments and functions.
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Advanced industry knowledge and technology trends.
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Advanced knowledge of company QA/QC process and procedures.
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Intermediate knowledge of construction feasibility.
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Intermediate knowledge of procurement and contract administration.
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Advanced knowledge of process and procedures for project controls and estimates.
Portland General Electric Company
121 SW Salmon St
Portland
Oregon United States
www.portlandgeneral.com
