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Principal System Protection Engineer, Portland OR or Salt Lake City #113766 (PORTLAND, OR, US, 97232)

November 11, 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

Provides technical leadership on the most complex and business critical engineering projects. Facilitates internal training for engineers and technicians. Develops presentations for senior management and recommends and implements changes to benefit the company. 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 and distribution facilities/systems.

Responsibilities

Independently conduct highly complex engineering research studies and technical analyses in areas of power system protection.
Provide technical oversight and guidance to all Engineering staff.
Develop Company Design Standards
Evaluate emerging technologies
Lead project teams in the development of critical engineering solutions.
Provide technical expertise for critical plant and/or facility components.
Serve as the Company expert in the discipline and provide authoritative consultation and recommendations to senior management.

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SCADA Engineer (2,3,4), Portland, OR #113830 (PORTLAND, OR, US, 97232)

November 7, 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

Develop engineering documents, plans, and specifications associated with the design, operation, and maintenance of company SCADA systems used for the monitoring and control of the company’s expansive electric grid.

Responsibilities

Assist in the SCADA design of RTU (Remote Terminal Unit) architectures and systems to support numerous grid-connected initiatives and projects, including the creation and modifications to RTU designs, configurations, and points list implementations.
Coordinate with various engineering disciplines, project engineers/managers, and customer representatives to finalize SCADA point lists based on anticipated requirements.
Work with database analysts, business system analysts, and advanced application teams to ensure the remote data requirements are completely and accurately implemented into the OSI Monarch EMS/SCADA system.
Develop complete SCADA designs utilizing standardized engineering methods.
Assist in the design, development, and evaluation of systems, processes, or facilities to support company objectives utilizing engineering methods.

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Transmission Principal Engineer, Portland, OR or Salt Lake City, UT #113822 (PORTLAND, OR, US, 97232)

September 28, 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

Provides technical leadership on the most complex and business critical transmission engineering projects. Facilitates internal training for transmission line design engineers and technicians. Develops presentations for senior management and recommends and implements process improvements to benefit the company. Develops engineering plans, specifications, calculations, evaluations, design documents, and performance assessments associated with the planning, design, licensing, construction, operation, and maintenance of the Company’s transmission, distribution, telecommunication facilities/systems.

Responsibilities

Independently conduct highly complex engineering research studies and technical analyses in areas of transmission line design not commonly available or obtainable in the competitive engineering market.
Provide technical oversight and guidance to all engineering staff.
Lead project teams in the development of critical engineering solutions.
Provide technical expertise for critical plant and/or facility components.
Serve as the Company expert in transmission line design and provide authoritative consultation and recommendations to senior management.

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Telecom Engineer (2,3,4) Portland, OR #113837 (Portland, OR, US, 97232)

September 12, 2025

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General Purpose

Provide engineering design, provisioning, and support of the company’s enterprise-wide private utility telecommunications OT infrastructure, including core utility transport (optical transport network/carrier Ethernet, microwave radios, multiplexers, network switches, etc.) systems. Implement technology standards, designs, policies, and practices for telecommunications enterprise systems to ensure they address company needs while following industry best practices. Ensure the proper implementation of technologies to ensure high levels of network and system performance and reliability.

Responsibilities

Responsibilities of this position include the following:

Design major network and communications systems. Create and update networking system diagrams, equipment diagrams, etc. and implement moderately complex provisioning of connected systems.
Coordinate with various engineering disciplines, project engineers/managers, and customer representatives to design telecom transport systems based on anticipated requirements.

Serve as a design engineer for business units to implement networking and communications needs. Develop complete telecom designs utilizing standardized engineering methods.

Serve as project manager on minor projects or system upgrades.
Create documentation on all projects and keep documentation updated.

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System Protection Engineer II, Portland, OR, or Salt Lake City, #113769 (PORTLAND, OR, US, 97232)

July 22, 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

Applies prescribed methods and standard practices in performing all phases of projects and assists other engineering staff on more complex projects. Develops protection system settings, engineering calculations and design documents associated with the construction, operation, and maintenance of the Company’s transmission and distribution, facilities/systems. Supports the construction and commissioning of protection systems deployed on company transmission and distribution facilities.

Responsibilities

Develop Protection system schematic designs
Conduct Short circuit and symmetrical component analysis
Perform protection system coordination studies
Relay settings and protection system automation logic development
Conduct arc flash analysis
Manage Integration with SCADA systems
Comply with NERC, FERC and WECC regulations
Develop moderately complex electrical engineering studies.
Guide and direct level I engineers, technicians and drafters.
Deliver on commitments to accomplish assigned work.
Analyze and design engineering methods.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering or electrical engineering technology from an ABET-accredited university
A minimum of two years directly applicable engineering experience.

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Engineer I, II Portland, OR or Salt Lake City, UT #113660 (PORTLAND, OR, US, 97232)

July 18, 2025

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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:
• Develop substation physical designs of limited scope with direct oversight.
• Create markups for substation physical drawings.
• Work closely with drafters & designers to ensure accurate design.
• Provide project status updates in scheduled meetings to all stakeholders.
• Specify major materials for purchase.
• Order major materials and review manufacturer drawings.
• Coordinate with other engineering disciplines to provide a complete design package.
• Travel for site visits during design and for final walkthroughs.
• Complete point to point wiring according to control schematics.
• Manage project schedules effectively.

In addition to the above, the Engineer II responsibilities include:
• Develop substation designs of moderate scope with limited oversight.

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