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ESM Operations Control Adviser (Portland, OR) #113955 (PORTLAND, OR, US, 97232)

October 26, 2025

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PacifiCorp is seeking customer-centric candidates to grow and sustain our commitment to a culture of customer service excellence, environmental sustainability inclusion & belonging.

General Purpose

Manages and oversees the front office operational controls. This position is responsible for the development, oversight, performance, and documentation of the operational controls in the energy supply management (ESM) group. ESM is responsible for load service of PacifiCorp’s more than 2 million customers across six states. This entails the optimization of generation and transmission resources including commercial trading activity and the near-term forecasting of load and renewable resources. Responsible for developing, defining and maintaining a controls framework for ESM that continuously identifies, assesses, and mitigates risks to serve our customers in the least-cost manner. This position is also responsible for the creation of an audit trail to ensure processes are followed and for use in regulatory procedures.

Responsibilities

Identify risks and critical points of failure within ESM and develop, define and implement process controls to mitigate the said risks.

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Government and industry organizations’ gaps in understanding control system cybersecurity

September 6, 2024

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Cyber security programs assume organizations can recognize control system incidents as being cyber-related. Yet the lack of control system cyber expertise by government organizations including NTSB, FDA, FBI, TSA, EPA, CISA, and DOE have not identified control system incidents as being cyber-related. The five cases discussed were fatal catastrophes. In all cases, NTSB identified control..
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Identifying control system cyber incidents requires expertise not readily available and government reporting changes

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Identifying control system incidents as being cyber-related is difficult. It is complicated when government and industry organizations rush to judgement by stating that incidents weren’t cyberattacks without knowing the actual cause or set reporting thresholds that exclude many actual control system cyber incidents. Consequently, it is difficult to identify trends when so many real cases..
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Production Control Supervisor- Portland, OR #111786 (PORTLAND, OR, US, 97232)

March 13, 2024

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PacifiCorp is seeking customer-centric candidates to grow and sustain our commitment to a culture of customer service excellence, environmental sustainability and diversity, equity and inclusion.

For internal Berkshire Hathaway Energy affiliate employee consideration only.

General Purpose

Responsible for leading a functional team that performs integration, scheduling, monitoring, problem resolution, and output control of applications in a multi-platform, 24×7 data center operations environment. Participates in the integration and maintenance of automation procedures and assists in analyzing existing and new production applications to insure schedule and procedural efficiencies. Performs processing analysis related to effective utilization and efficient, accurate, and timely computer processing based upon production application resource consumption behaviors including the identification and resolution of service-level problems and mission-critical tasks. This role will be responsible for supporting all US-based BHE platforms.

Responsibilities

Leads a functional team by directing day-to-day activities and providing technical leadership, guidance, training, and recommendations. Plans, prioritizes, and manages the work of the functional group. Leads projects and initiatives.

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Engineer Sr / Sr II or Principal (Protection & Control) Portland, OR / SLC, UT – #108429 (SALT LAKE CITY, OR, US, 84116)

July 26, 2022

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PacifiCorp is seeking customer-centric candidates to grow and sustain our commitment to a culture of customer service excellence, environmental sustainability and diversity, equity and inclusion.

General Purpose

Develops engineering design standards and configuration guides for the protection and control of distribution facilities and systems. Create specifications, and performance requirements for protective relay systems and control functionality for all aspects of the distribution system. This position is also responsible for the evaluations and performance assessments of protective equipment installed on the company’s distribution facilities and systems.

Responsibilities

The responsibilities of the Sr Engineer and Sr Engineer II position include:

Design, develop, modify, and evaluate systems, process, or facilities to support company objectives, utilizing engineering methods.
Develop highly complex engineering studies, plans, specifications, calculations, evaluations, design documents, and performance assessments.
Determine methods and techniques for obtaining results.
Act as a lead/expert in the work group; train and mentor less experienced engineers, technicians, and drafters.
Recommend alternative engineering solutions to management to meet business needs.

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Engineer I and II (Protection and Control) Salt Lake City, UT / Portland, OR – #107225 (PORTLAND, OR, US, 97232)

March 12, 2022

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PacifiCorp is seeking customer-centric candidates to grow and sustain our commitment to a culture of customer service excellence, environmental sustainability and diversity, equity and inclusion.

General Purpose

Applies prescribed methods and standard practices in performing all phases of projects and assists other engineering staff on more complex projects. Develops engineering studies, plans, specifications, calculations, evaluations, design documents, and performance assessments associated with the design, construction, operation, and maintenance of the protection and control systems for the company’s transmission and distribution assets.

Responsibilities

The responsibilities of the Engineer I position include:

Analyze the protection and control system design, programming, and modification.
Develop studies of limited scope and prepare data for cost estimations and analyses.
Develop electrical engineering plans, specifications, calculations, and design documents.
Run equipment and performance tests and install and inspect new protection systems.

In addition, the responsibilities of the Engineer II position are:

Design, develop, modify, and evaluate protection and control systems, process, or facilities to support Company objectives.

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