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T&D Data Engineer, Portland, OR or Salt Lake City, UT #112798 (PORTLAND, OR, US, 97232)

January 27, 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 and diversity, equity and inclusion.

General Purpose

The T&D Data Engineer will be responsible for development of data pipelines and data governance for new and existing data products supporting technical and operational programs in electric operations. The incumbent will work within an expanding and increasingly complex data environment to support business critical wildfire risk data management and analyses, reliability reporting, and other use cases within electric operations and asset management. The data engineer will work closely with data scientists, analysts, and other stakeholders to ensure data integrity, availability, and accessibility. Example tasks include the development and implementation of data pipelines for wildfire risk modeling, outage tracking and reporting, and resilience analysis. In performing these tasks, this position will be responsible for creation of data pipelines, data governance standards, and backend system architecture leveraging the Palantir Foundry operational data analytics platform and other enterprise data management software.

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Engineer II, Portland, OR, or Salt Lake City, UT #112952 (PORTLAND, OR, US, 97232)

December 6, 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.

General Purpose

Develops engineering studies, plans, specifications, calculations, evaluations, design documents, and performance assessments associated with the planning, design, licensing, construction, operation, and maintenance of the Company’s generation, transmission, distribution, telecommunication, or other utility facilities/systems.

Responsibilities

Design, develop, modify, and evaluate systems, process, or facilities to support Company objectives.
Develop electrical engineering studies, plans, specifications, calculations, evaluations, design documents, and performance assessments.
Determine methods and techniques for obtaining results.
Guide and direct associate level engineers, technicians and drafters.
Recommend alternative solutions to management in area of specialty on engineering solutions to meet business needs.
Deliver on commitments and manage outside engineering services to accomplish the assigned work.
Analyze and design engineering methods.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in engineering.
A minimum of two years of directly related experience in engineering related field.
Knowledge and application of principles in area of engineering specialty.

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EMS Advance Applications Engineer II – Portland, Oregon – #112987 (Portland, OR, US, 84116)

December 2, 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.

General Purpose

Contributes to planning and implementation of transmission projects necessary to ensure that the transmission system continues to reliably and efficiently accommodate customer needs. Utilizes engineering methods to demonstrate compliance with NERC/WECC Reliability Standards.
Develops engineering studies, plans, specifications, calculations, evaluations, design documents, performance assessments associated with the planning, design, licensing, construction, operation, and maintenance of the company’s generation, transmission facilities/systems, and helps to develop and maintain the real-time system model and associated advanced applications.

Responsibilities

Develop and maintain the real-time system model and the associated advanced applications such as the Contingency Analysis (CA), State Estimator (SE), Operator Training Simulator (OTS), and Dispatch Load Flow, etc.
Develop and maintain Automatic Generation Control (AGC) functions and programming in the energy management system (EMS).
Design, develop, modify, and evaluate main grid transmission systems, processes, or facilities to support Company objectives, utilizing engineering methods to demonstrate compliance with NERC/WECC reliability standards.

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Student Engineer, Portland, OR #112243 (PORTLAND, OR, US, 97211)

September 17, 2024

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General Purpose

To assist in the development of engineering studies, plans, specifications, calculations, design documents, and performance assessments associated with the planning, design, construction, operation, and maintenance of the companyÃâs transmission and distribution system.

Responsibilities

•   Assist company engineers in performing engineering studies and analysis of substation equipment, protection & control equipment, transmission structures & hardware, and distribution equipment.
•   Develop moderately complex engineering studies of limited scope and prepare data for analysis.
•   Perform electrical network data analysis and present results to company staff.
•   Conduct drawing reviews to ensure adherence to company and industry standards.
•   Research and test equipment provided by suppliers
•   Update company standards and drawings
•   Analyze the system design, programming, and modification.

Requirements

•   Enrolled full time in accredited engineering college/university.
•   Sophomore standing or higher in electrical/mechanical/civil engineering or a related field.
•   Ability to interact favorably with project and work teams.
•   Communication and interpersonal skills involving the ability to work cross-functionally to understand requirements, present alternatives, and recommendations.

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Engineer (I, II, SR) Portland OR or Salt Lake City #112469 (PORTLAND, OR, US, 97232)

August 20, 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.

General Purpose

Applies prescribed methods and standard practices in performing specific tasks within 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 planning, design, licensing, construction, operation, and maintenance of the Company’s generation, transmission, distribution, telecommunication, or other utility facilities/systems.

Responsibilities

Responsibilities of the Engineer I position include the following:
•   Prepare engineering scoping document from planning studies to be used during design.
•   Analyze the system design, programming, and modification.
•   Develop and review studies of limited scope and prepare data for cost estimations and analyses.
•   Run equipment and performance tests and install and inspect new equipment.
•   Conduct site inspections to ensure adherence to engineering standards.

In addition to the above, the Engineer II responsibilities include:
• Design, develop, modify, and evaluate systems, process, or facilities to support Company objectives, utilizing engineering methods.

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Engineer (I, II, SR, SR II, Principal) , Portland, OR or Salt Lake City, UT #112403 (PORTLAND, OR, US, 97232)

July 27, 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.

General Purpose

Create, revise, and update engineering standard that affect all levels of distribution & transmission systems design for the company. Work with other internal groups to technically evaluate external suppliers and manufacturers, and their material to ensure material integrity and reliability. Offer specialized expertise in interpreting relevant federal, state and governing body (e.g. NESC) regulations, as well as expertise in material failure modes and the inspection and troubleshooting techniques used to detect them.

*This role may involve up to 10% travel.

Responsibilities

•   Support procurement in efforts to increase material redundancy and resolve material shortages.
•   Collaborate directly with suppliers to foster strong business relationships.
•   Evaluate suppliers’ ability to manufacture material effectively and reliably.
•   Review manufacturer drawings to ensure that they conform to internal specifications and standards.
•   Develop and maintain publications describing material, material specifications and installation of material.

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