Job Summary
This position will report to the Transmission Maintenance Engineering team under the Standards, System Health & Maintenance organization and is based in Oregon City, Oregon. This position supports the transmission maintenance program both when it comes to reviewing results from routine patrols and inspection (FITNES, Ignition Prevention, etc.) to determine criticality and timing of scope of repairs, urgent transmission line maintenance needs day-to-day, supporting public utility commission data requests, FERC compliance, Oregon Department of Energy compliance and scoping/designing/leading yearly planned transmission maintenance jobs on our 230 & 500kV system. The work this role performs is critical to managing system risk, preventing transmission line outages, supporting field crews with urgent needs (storms and unplanned work), and planned maintenance jobs on critical 230 and 500kV lines.
Career Level Summary:
Grade: 6 or 7
Career Level: P2 or P3 Career
- Requires in-depth knowledge and experience
- Uses best practices and knowledge of internal or external business issues to improve products or services
- Solves complex problems; takes a new perspective using existing solutions
- Works independently, receives minimal guidance
- Acts as a resource for colleagues with less experience
Key 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.
- Supports transmission improvements with extended knowledge of maintenance engineering principles and local codes and standards. Applies knowledge to investigate, identify and clearly define substation problems and deliver engineering improvements on proposed equipment and systems. Provides technical guidance and support to other engineers and contractors.
Engineering Production:
- Prepares a variety of complex engineering deliverables for larger or multiple projects; coordinates multiple discipline activity.
- Develops and provides quality assurance reviews of maintenance engineering solutions that meet technical requirements, all applicable codes, regulatory requirements and follow sound engineering practice.
- Leads companywide high-profile and/or high-impact development and review of electrical engineering designs and studies (e.g., electrical physical designs, electrical control designs, substation automation and SCADA designs, equipment specifications); provides technical support and guidance to colleagues, department, organization and companywide
Project Coordination:
- Actively coordinates with other internal/external team members on moderately complex projects, including representing the team to interdepartmental and external (regulatory) stakeholders.
- Plans, develops and coordinates projects with complex design, construction, operation, maintenance or testing elements in support of substation maintenance engineering projects; provides accurate capital budget and job estimates.
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.
- Develops and delivers training of other engineers and crews on operations and maintenance practices and requirements. Provides and coordinates updates on critical safety and reliability topics to operations personnel. Participates in industry-related events for the purposes of benchmarking and learning about best practices.
Qualifications
Education Requires a bachelor's degree in engineering. ABET accredited engineering program or program accredited by an equivalent agency preferred.
Experience Typically five or more years in engineering, or four years in engineering with a Professional Engineering (PE) license.
Certifications, Licenses and Training Professional Engineering (PE) license strongly preferred; may be required based upon role.
Read the full posting.Portland General Electric Company
121 SW Salmon St
Portland
Oregon United States
www.portlandgeneral.com
