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Sr. Geographic Information System (GIS) Analyst – Portland, OR – #112720 (PORTLAND, OR, US, 97232)

October 11, 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

Perform critical business support functions including geospatial science and analysis, spatial data acquisition, geospatial modeling, database development, data management and maintaining data integrity, developing geospatial processes and solutions, supporting other businesses and business systems utilizing spatial data, and create high-end cartographic products, data extractions, and analytical reporting. This role will support different groups with primary focus on PacifiCorp’s renewables business, property-real estate, and wildfire mitigation and response efforts.

Responsibilities

•   Perform geospatial science and analysis, spatial data acquisition, geospatial modeling, database development, data management, maintain data integrity, develop geospatial processes and solutions, support other businesses and business systems utilizing spatial data.
•   Design, development and implementation of moderately complex GIS processes including sourcing data, data extraction, geospatial analysis, manipulation, transformation, integration, mapping, and GIS application solutions.
•   Oversee the preparation of required exhibits for submission to stakeholders and Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC).

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Asset Risk Program Manager, Portland, OR or Salt Lake City UT #112340 (PORTLAND, OR, US, 97232)

October 7, 2024

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Department Overview

The Asset Risk Organization is responsible for identifying, quantifying, and developing mitigation strategies for risks to electric transmission and distribution assets, including system performance/reliability improvement and wildfire risk reduction. The organization supports several objectives to 1) complete accurate, timely reporting on system performance and responses to data requests from regulatory entities; 2) meet all commitments outlined in our Wildfire Mitigation Plans; 3) continue to foster trusted relationships with key stakeholders; and 4) provide ongoing technical support and manage technology development for existing and new applications.

General Purpose

The Asset Risk Program Mgr is responsible for coordinating the development of an integrated risk strategy aligning programmatic efforts covering wildfire risk, reliability, and resilience within a common framework. This position will support development, approval, tracking, and reporting on cross-functional work to achieve strategic objectives within the integrated risk strategy.

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Associate Generation Operator – Portland, Oregon #112701 (PORTLAND, OR, US, 97232)

October 3, 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

Continuously maintain Real Power Balance, ensuring compliance with all applicable reliability requirements of the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC), Western Electricity Coordinating Council (WECC), and Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). Evaluate the Resource Operations Plan and the California Independent System Operator (CAISO) Energy Imbalance Market (EIM) optimized market solution and execute the plans within the constraints of real-time system conditions. Validate accuracy of load and variable energy resource (VER) forecasts, and dispatch system generation efficiently, to balance the electric system and deliver the lowest net power cost solution to customers.

Responsibilities of this position include the following:

Maintain compliance with NERC/FERC/WECC and Open Access Transmission Tariff (OATT) requirements.
Maintain accurate unit capabilities in the Energy Supply Management System (EMS) and CAISO Market Model.
Reliably and economically balance current system load and resource requirements.

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Load Forecast Specialist – Portland, OR – #112565 (Portland, OR, OR, US, 97232)

September 29, 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

Provide leadership to the load forecasting group, and present recommendations to management and client organizations regarding sales and revenue forecasts in a transparent manner. Critically review the model inputs and output for load forecast and load research projects. Verify the accuracy of the load forecast, identifying any issues which have the potential to impact the forecast. Develop and implement new strategies, programs, and/or processes in response to changing internal and external business scenarios.

Responsibilities of this position include the following:

Develop techniques to streamline the production of exhaustive variance analysis by month and year for each state, customer class and rate schedule.
Develop long-term load and customer forecasts using statistical and end-use modeling techniques.
Critically analyze and interpret load research data to be able to explain weather effects on customer usage and the overall forecasted impact.

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Associate Investment Delivery Manager (Portland, OR) #112745 (PORTLAND, OR, US, 97232)

September 25, 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

Facilitate the delivery of the Transmission and Distribution Operations capital budget delivery by providing technical analysis, budgeting, forecasting, and performance reporting through the Investment Delivery organization that has a significant impact on corporate, business unit, or organizational objectives. Act as an interface to facilitate project delivery between multiple workgroups/functions including operations management, engineering, region business managers, rates and regulation, and finance. Support the implementation of Company business objectives, strategies, plans, programs and policies.

Responsibilities

Collaborate with operation managers and area engineers to develop, analyze, and review capital Appropriations Requests.
Assist with identification, prioritization, and tracking of capital expenditure needs across the organization.
Support managers within region on approved projects, responsibilities of maintenance work, and cash flow.
Support customer large load connection process.
Support Asset Management on implementation of maintenance programs within region.

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Energy Supply Data Scientist I or II (Portland, OR) – 112724 (PORTLAND, OR, US, 97232)

September 21, 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

The energy industry is rapidly changing, and PacifiCorp is leading the way in renewable energy deployment and electricity market development. With the emergence of the extended day-ahead market (EDAM), this role will be critical in providing actionable insights through data to improve PacifiCorp interactions with organized electricity markets. This is an opportunity to apply data analytics to optimize PacifiCorp’s operations across six states to minimize power costs for over 2 million customers, while ensuring reliable operations and integrating gigawatts of clean energy to the grid.

This position will provide technical support on complex and business critical projects related to Energy Supply management across six states. The incumbent is responsible for gathering data from a variety of sources and designing custom tools to optimize data mining, cleaning, validating and analyzing data. The data includes but is not limited to, loads, weather patterns, generation and transmission performance, and market prices and liquidity.

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