Energy Jobs In NW | EnergyNorthwest.com

Engineer II, Portland, OR #113098 (PORTLAND, OR, US, 97232)

February 4, 2025

JOIN OUR TEAM

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

Under limited supervision, applies prescribed methods and standard practices in performing all phases of 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

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.

…

Energy Supply Data Scientist I & II, Portland OR (#113117) (PORTLAND, OR, US, 97232)

January 31, 2025

| No Comments

| Energy Jobs In NW

JOIN OUR TEAM!

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.

…

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

January 27, 2025

| No Comments

| Energy Jobs In NW

JOIN OUR TEAM

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.

…

Line Foreman (Local 659) – Lincoln City, Oregon – #113027 (Lincoln City, Oregon, OR, US, 97367)

January 23, 2025

| No Comments

| Energy Jobs In NW

Join Our Team!

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.

Responsibilities

A Line Foreman is a Working Foreman assigned to a Headquarters responsible on a continuing basis for the direct supervision of an assigned crew and the work they perform. The normal complement of a regularly established line crew of three (3) or more workers shall include at least one (1) Journeyman Lineman in addition to the Foreman and may include a Utility Specialist, or Apprentice, or Apprentice-Qualified or Helper classification. The Line Foreman shall:

•   Be a qualified Journeyman Lineman
•   Supervise a crew when engaged in line or substation construction or maintenance work
•   Shall work with the employees under his or her supervision to the extent that it does not interfere with the supervisory responsibilities
•   Be responsible for job planning, work methods, equipment application, construction standards and job reporting for the jobs assigned.

…

PCC System Operator or Trainee (Local 125) – Portland, Oregon – #108418 (PORTLAND, OR, US, 97216)

January 19, 2025

| No Comments

| Energy Jobs In NW

Join Our Team!

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.

Responsibilities

A PCC Region System Operator is responsible for monitoring and directing the safe and reliable operation of electric transmission, substation, and distribution systems. System Operators are trained, certified and responsible for writing and directing primary voltage planned and emergency switching as well as alarm response and outage restoration dispatching duties as assigned. System Operators are trained, certified and responsible for ensuring operations adhere to relevant Federal safe work practices (OSHA 1910.269), Union/Company accident prevention manuals and critical infrastructure protection (NERC) and standards of conduct (FERC) regulation.

Performs fault location, isolation, and load restoration techniques and the communication therein to ensure safe and reliable power delivery.
Ensures relay zones of protection are identified and determines how these will affect system operation in view of switching to be performed.
Monitors and maintains system voltage at acceptable levels to prevent damage to electric equipment and monitors and controls equipment to mitigate line and equipment over-loading conditions.

…

Area-Transmission Planner II – Portland, Oregon – #113011 (Portland, Oregon, OR, US, 97216)

January 15, 2025

| No Comments

| Energy Jobs In NW

Join Our Team!

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, and performance assessments associated with the planning, design, licensing, construction, operation, and maintenance of the Company generation, transmission facilities/systems.

Responsibilities

Design, develop, modify, and evaluate transmission systems, processes, or facilities to support Company objectives, utilizing engineering methods to demonstrate compliance with NERC/WECC reliability standards.
Develop complex engineering studies, plans, specifications, calculations, evaluations, design documents, and performance assessments.
Determine methods and techniques for obtaining results.
Recommend alternative engineering solutions to management to meet business needs.
Deliver on commitments and manage outside engineering services to accomplish the assigned work.
Maintain project timeliness and budgets.

…