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 PurposeThe Substation Standards Engineering Manager leads the substation standards team, encompassing civil, wound equipment, substation general, and major equipment disciplines. This role is pivotal to achieving corporate and organizational objectives.
Key responsibilities include developing and implementing technical solutions, engineering guidelines and policies, creating material specifications and construction standards, integrating advanced technologies into the electric grid, and publishing handbooks, requirement manuals, standards, and guidelines for engineering, design, constructability, and maintainability of substation assets.
Additionally, the manager is responsible for selecting, coaching, and developing employees, managing salaries, ensuring compliance with company programs and policies, and establishing and adhering to department goals and budgets. This role requires a strategic focus on advancing the company's substation standards and helping to ensure the reliability and efficiency of the electric system.
• Oversee and approve engineering standards activities supporting capital projects, ensuring compliance with regulations and best practices.
• Coordinate with design engineering to incorporate changes and provide alternatives for capital projects.
• Apply engineering and environmental principles to support substation operations, including technical studies, planning, and capital project implementation.
• Ensure field operations are supported with equipment failure resolution and construction support, maintaining effective communication and collaboration across departments.
• Manage supplier and material development activities related to substation equipment.
• Facilitate change, foster continuous improvement, and drive compliance with developed standards.
• Develop, approve, and implement standards for the design and construction of substations.
• Provide engineering and technical support for electric substation operations, ensuring alignment with industry practices and regulatory requirements.
• Develop processes to improve substation grid resiliency and oversee special projects aimed at enhancing grid reliability.
• Select, coach, develop, and evaluate standards engineers, ensuring their activities align with the department's goals and the company's strategic direction.
• Ensure the timely achievement of goals and deadlines for high-risk, high-value capital projects, including those involving power transformers.
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering from an accredited university.
• A minimum of 10 years’ experience in operations, maintenance, engineering, or a related field.
• A minimum of three years’ experience in people management.
• Management skills including the ability to establish objectives, execute policy, monitor resources, and manage the development or implementation of a system, program, or process.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives to completion and implementation.
• Excellent leadership skills including directing and motivating individuals who may not be direct reports.
• Knowledge of Company's strategic plan, objectives for specific area, as well as Company policies, procedures, and practices.
• Strong knowledge of state and federal safety and environmental regulations (OSHA, Title V, etc) and applicable codes such as NESC, IEEE.
• Knowledge and experience in the design, installation, operation of utility infrastructure including substation and transmission facilities from 46kV to 500kV
• Proficient with the use of personal computers including spreadsheet, database, word processing, presentation applications and SAP.
• Knowledge with distribution protection and control systems.
• Professional Engineering Registration
• Supervisory experience or demonstrated leadership skills is highly desirable.
• Experience in budget preparation, analysis and cost tracking.
• Experience with facility constructability, process centered organizations, project management, contract administration and work planning, scheduling and tracking.
• Employees must be able to perform the essential functions of the position with or without an accommodation. Additional Information
Req Id: 112479
Company Code: PacifiCorp
Primary Location: PORTLAND
Department: Power Delivery
Schedule: Days
Personnel Subarea: Exempt
Hiring Range: $133,000-$156,500
This position is eligible for an annual discretionary performance incentive bonus of up to 20.00% of salary.
Benefits: Health care, retirement, paid time off, tuition assistance, paid short-term and long-term disability, paid bereavement leave. For more information, please visit:
Employees must be able to perform the essential functions of the position with or without an accommodation.
At PacifiCorp, we celebrate diversity, equity and inclusion. PacifiCorp is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion or religious creed, age, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status (except as required by law), gender (including gender identity and expression), sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, genetic information, physical or mental disability, medical condition, veteran or military status, familial or parental status, marital status or any other category protected by applicable local, state or U.S. federal law.
Unless otherwise required by law, all offers of employment are contingent upon the successful completion of a background check and drug screening including for marijuana. While marijuana is legal in several states, including Oregon, a positive test for positions in Oregon may disqualify a candidate. The company complies with the laws of Washington and California and only obtains and considers positive tests for marijuana in safety-sensitive positions or those covered by U.S. Department of Transportation regulations.