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Engineer (SR, SRII) Portland, OR or Salt Lake City, UT #111592 (PORTLAND, OR, US, 97232)

March 12, 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. Develops engineering studies, plans, specifications, , and detailed scopes of work. 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. Provide guidance, supervision and engineering peer reviews for other engineers in the department. 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 localized and wide area
•   Develop Relay settings and protection system automation logic
•   Conduct arc flash analysis
•   Manage Integration with SCADA systems
•   Develop complex electrical engineering studies, plans, detailed scopes of work and protection system criteria.

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

February 4, 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

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.

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

January 27, 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

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.

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Engineer II, Portland, OR, or Salt Lake City, UT #112952 (PORTLAND, OR, US, 97232)

December 6, 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

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.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in engineering.
A minimum of two years of directly related experience in engineering related field.
Knowledge and application of principles in area of engineering specialty.

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EMS Advance Applications Engineer II – Portland, Oregon – #112987 (Portland, OR, US, 84116)

December 2, 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

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, performance assessments associated with the planning, design, licensing, construction, operation, and maintenance of the company’s generation, transmission facilities/systems, and helps to develop and maintain the real-time system model and associated advanced applications.

Responsibilities

Develop and maintain the real-time system model and the associated advanced applications such as the Contingency Analysis (CA), State Estimator (SE), Operator Training Simulator (OTS), and Dispatch Load Flow, etc.
Develop and maintain Automatic Generation Control (AGC) functions and programming in the energy management system (EMS).
Design, develop, modify, and evaluate main grid transmission systems, processes, or facilities to support Company objectives, utilizing engineering methods to demonstrate compliance with NERC/WECC reliability standards.

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Student Engineer, Portland, OR #112243 (PORTLAND, OR, US, 97211)

September 17, 2024

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General Purpose

To assist in the development of engineering studies, plans, specifications, calculations, design documents, and performance assessments associated with the planning, design, construction, operation, and maintenance of the companyÃâs transmission and distribution system.

Responsibilities

•   Assist company engineers in performing engineering studies and analysis of substation equipment, protection & control equipment, transmission structures & hardware, and distribution equipment.
•   Develop moderately complex engineering studies of limited scope and prepare data for analysis.
•   Perform electrical network data analysis and present results to company staff.
•   Conduct drawing reviews to ensure adherence to company and industry standards.
•   Research and test equipment provided by suppliers
•   Update company standards and drawings
•   Analyze the system design, programming, and modification.

Requirements

•   Enrolled full time in accredited engineering college/university.
•   Sophomore standing or higher in electrical/mechanical/civil engineering or a related field.
•   Ability to interact favorably with project and work teams.
•   Communication and interpersonal skills involving the ability to work cross-functionally to understand requirements, present alternatives, and recommendations.

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