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Principal System Protection Engineer, Portland OR or Salt Lake City #113766 (PORTLAND, OR, US, 97232)

November 11, 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

Provides technical leadership on the most complex and business critical engineering projects. Facilitates internal training for engineers and technicians. Develops presentations for senior management and recommends and implements changes to benefit the company. 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 and distribution facilities/systems.

Responsibilities

Independently conduct highly complex engineering research studies and technical analyses in areas of power system protection.
Provide technical oversight and guidance to all Engineering staff.
Develop Company Design Standards
Evaluate emerging technologies
Lead project teams in the development of critical engineering solutions.
Provide technical expertise for critical plant and/or facility components.
Serve as the Company expert in the discipline and provide authoritative consultation and recommendations to senior management.

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System Protection Engineer II, Portland, OR, or Salt Lake City, #113769 (PORTLAND, OR, US, 97232)

July 22, 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 and assists other engineering staff on more complex projects. 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. 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
Relay settings and protection system automation logic development
Conduct arc flash analysis
Manage Integration with SCADA systems
Comply with NERC, FERC and WECC regulations
Develop moderately complex electrical engineering studies.
Guide and direct level I engineers, technicians and drafters.
Deliver on commitments to accomplish assigned work.
Analyze and design engineering methods.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering or electrical engineering technology from an ABET-accredited university
A minimum of two years directly applicable engineering experience.

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Sr System Protection Engineer, Portland, OR or Salt Lake City, UT #111591 (PORTLAND, OR, US, 97232)

March 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

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 Sr / Sr II or Principal (Protection & Control) Portland, OR / SLC, UT – #108429 (SALT LAKE CITY, OR, US, 84116)

July 26, 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

Develops engineering design standards and configuration guides for the protection and control of distribution facilities and systems. Create specifications, and performance requirements for protective relay systems and control functionality for all aspects of the distribution system. This position is also responsible for the evaluations and performance assessments of protective equipment installed on the company’s distribution facilities and systems.

Responsibilities

The responsibilities of the Sr Engineer and Sr Engineer II position include:

Design, develop, modify, and evaluate systems, process, or facilities to support company objectives, utilizing engineering methods.
Develop highly complex engineering studies, plans, specifications, calculations, evaluations, design documents, and performance assessments.
Determine methods and techniques for obtaining results.
Act as a lead/expert in the work group; train and mentor less experienced engineers, technicians, and drafters.
Recommend alternative engineering solutions to management to meet business needs.

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Engineer I and II (Protection and Control) Salt Lake City, UT / Portland, OR – #107225 (PORTLAND, OR, US, 97232)

March 12, 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

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 design, construction, operation, and maintenance of the protection and control systems for the company’s transmission and distribution assets.

Responsibilities

The responsibilities of the Engineer I position include:

Analyze the protection and control system design, programming, and modification.
Develop studies of limited scope and prepare data for cost estimations and analyses.
Develop electrical engineering plans, specifications, calculations, and design documents.
Run equipment and performance tests and install and inspect new protection systems.

In addition, the responsibilities of the Engineer II position are:

Design, develop, modify, and evaluate protection and control systems, process, or facilities to support Company objectives.

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The POWER Interview: Protection Testing Paradigm—How Utilities can Adapt to the Digital Era

February 6, 2022

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The digital transformation in the power generation industry touches several areas, encompassing engineering, monitoring and control, asset performance, and operations optimization, among others. Power plant operators know the digital era has been a perfect fit for their industry, enabling digitization to reduce risk, save costs, optimize performance, and speed crisis response.

Doble Engineering is a company at the forefront of the digital age in power generation, enabling utilities and power plant operators to understand asset health through the group’s diagnostic test equipment, software, and services for the electric power industry.

Ed Khan, director of Protection Training at Doble Engineering, provided POWER with insight into the ways digitization has changed the power industry. Khan and Doble continue to research and develop ways digital-based applications can serve electricity producers moving forward, at a time of rapid change in the power sector, particularly when it comes to protecting assets and operations.

POWER: Which industry trends or changes should be most top of mind for power and utility companies today?…