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Director, Main Grid Operations – Portland, Oregon – #108631 (Portland, Oregon, OR, US, 97216)

September 8, 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

 

Manages and directs the day to day (24/7) operations of a multi-state bulk electric system (BES)  or cross-functional unit, which has a major impact on corporate, business unit, or organizational objectives.  Establishes strategic business objectives, strategies, and plans in support of company strategic goals.  Manages and allocates financial and employee resources.  Responsible for selecting, coaching, and developing employees and management of employee salaries. Implements and supports company programs and policies.  Typically supervises manager-level employees.

Responsibilities

 

  • Oversight and management of departments involved in controlling the bulk electric transmission system (grid operations), balance and interchange, energy imbalance market (EIM) operations.
  • Establish strategic business objectives, strategies, and plans in support of company strategic goals.
  • Manage and allocate financial and employee resources for the efficient operation of transmission and grid operations.
  • Develop plans, processes, operating policies, targets, measurements and implement tools to establish best practices for transmission and market operations.
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Cybersecurity a Main Concern for Connected Plants, but Tech is Improving

February 21, 2017
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Security issues are second only to cost concerns when energy generators consider the risks related to implementing connected technology at their power plants, according to a February 15 poll of the audience at POWER’s Connected Plant Conference.

However, continued improvements in available cybersecurity systems are quickly reducing those risks, Stan Schneider, CEO of Real-Time Innovations, told the audience in his keynote address.

“Security is a huge problem, everybody knows,” he said. “I think it’s getting better because security is a layer game.”

Using the most common security technology, such as air gap and firewalls, is not sufficient, but new technologies have the potential to greatly reduce the threat of a cybersecurity attack, according to Schneider. “If you’re dependent on fire walls, realize an insider attack easily breaches a fire wall protection. There’s just so many things that don’t work that people are dependent on for various reasons, but the new technologies [where] you can layer in different levels of security, are definitely making it better,” he said.…

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