Hydro Power/Controls/Protection Engineer (I, II, Sr, Sr II) Portland, OR #109894 (PORTLAND, OR, US, 97232)
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Join the most exciting engineering group at PacifiCorp! As a Renewables electrical engineering, you’ll focus on hydroelectric power production, with an intermittent sprinkling of solar and wind. This work will take you into scenic areas of six western states. 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. Maintain, upgrade, and new development for Renewables generation.
The work is fast paced, varied, challenging, and rewarding. Areas of work may include arc flash analysis, automation, battery testing, breakers, bushings, control systems, dissolved gas analysis, excitation, generators (rewinding, modeling, testing, cleaning, painting), governors, load centers, motors (control, protection, replacement, sizing), NERC PRC & MOD, project management (appropriations requests, forecasting, accruing, requisitioning, contract scope authoring, contract management, installation coordination, field commissioning), protective relays (protection, control, coordination, bus generators, transformers, feeders), power factor testing, programmable logic controllers, SCADA, switchgear, transformers(testing, requisitioning, removing/installing, monitoring), variable frequency drives.