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Are you a passionate and engineer looking to make a meaningful impact in the field of system protection engineering? Join our team as a System Protection Engineer and kickstart your career in an environment that fosters growth, innovation, and hands-on experience.

About Us : As part of the Protection Engineering team, we are the driving force behind the design and operation of protective relay equipment. Our primary mission is to detect abnormal power system conditions and swiftly initiate corrective actions to restore the power system to its normal state. Protection engineering is all about safeguarding electrical power systems from faults by isolating faulty components from the rest of the electrical network. We also play a crucial role in engineering system protection schemes while providing essential maintenance and operational support.

Our team supports Generation and Substations, covering both Transmission and Distribution voltages. This diversity provides a wealth of opportunities to build technical expertise. Moreover, you'll have the chance to develop into a Quality Assurance expert, ensuring the highest standards for relay settings. All settings are rigorously peer-reviewed before being deployed to Relay Techs in the field.

What You'll Experience:

• Professional Growth: This is your opportunity to build a strong foundation for a successful career. While you may be early in your career, you'll be surrounded by experienced professionals who are eager to mentor you. We are committed to helping you acquire higher-level knowledge and skills as you grow.

• Complex Problem-Solving: Dive into the world of protection engineering by tackling a variety of complex problems. Utilize your expanding knowledge to analyze potential solutions, all while applying advanced protocols to ensure the reliability of electrical power systems.

• Independence with Support: As an early-career engineer, you'll have the chance to operate independently, taking ownership of tasks and projects. While you'll receive moderate guidance and direction, you'll also have the freedom to innovate and contribute your ideas to our team.

What you’ll be responsible for:

• Maintaining currency in state-of-the-art engineering practices and independently applying professional knowledge of engineering processes and standards. Ensuring protection systems meet system requirements, applicable codes and regulatory requirements; contributing substantially to documentation to establish PGE compliance with WECC and FERC protection criteria; maintaining a high level of engineering proficiency within the field of specialization and up-to-date technical knowledge of all current techniques, applicable codes and regulations.

• Preparing a variety of moderately complex engineering deliverables; leads smaller project teams. Performs a wide range of system fault analysis to determine project relay requirements and protective relay settings and provides relay settings for new relay installations and vintage relay replacements. Contributes to special fault studies in support of planning, design, maintenance or operational activities.

• Assigning tasks and coordinating with other internal/external team members as directed on less complex projects; sharing information and providing professional guidance in executing project tasks. Partnering with engineers to implement efficient, reliable distribution automation schemes in support of Smart Grid Initiatives; providing engineering expertise to Power Supply Engineering Services for generation plant and distributed generation protection design and settings; partnering with automation engineers to implement efficient, reliable substation control and protection systems; providing engineering expertise to testing and energization engineers and Meter/Relay/SCADA technicians for relay testing and maintenance activities; providing engineering expertise to communications engineers for new construction activities; provides engineering expertise to distribution engineers on line recloser settings and feeder protection.

• Sharing current knowledge of latest technology and processes; may assist with mentoring, recognition and any corrective actions required.

What you need to be qualified:

• Education Requires a bachelor’s degree in engineering. ABET accredited engineering program or program accredited by an equivalent agency preferred.

• Experience Typically two or more years in engineering.

• Certifications, Licenses and Training Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) exam strongly preferred; may be required based upon role.

Preferred skills:

• Experience with substation relay protection

• Effective oral and written communication skills

• Proficiency in problem solving and analysis.

• Skill and knowledge in specialized protection software.

• Effective at building professional interdepartmental relationships.

• Deal effectively with pressure of real-time problem solving.

*PGE supports hybrid flexible work arrangements; and will have a combination of in-the-office and working offsite. However, these arrangements may change due to business needs or changes in responsibility.

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Compensation Range:

$78,075.00 - $183,000.00

Actual total compensation, including a performance based incentive bonus, is commensurate with experience, skills, qualifications, education, training, and internal equity. While we anticipate the selected candidate for this position will fall towards the middle or entry point of the compensation range, the decision will be made on a case-by-case basis.

PGE believes in rewarding dedicated performance. We provide a total rewards package that is designed to reward your contributions to the company, and, at the same time, support your well-being and professional development, both now and into the future. To find out more, click here (https://portlandgeneral.com/hrcs5511) .

Join us today and power your potential!

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PGE is committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace and is an equal opportunity employer. PGE will not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment based on race, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, religion, disability, protected veteran status, or other characteristics protected by law.

PGE does not discriminate on the basis of disability. We recognize individuals have a variety of abilities to offer and we believe there is much to value and celebrate by incorporating different abilities into the work we do. One very important way we live this out is in our application and interview process. We work hard to support individuals who may need an accommodation to fully participate in these processes. If you feel you may need an accommodation, or would like to request one, please notify the Talent Acquisition Specialist (Recruiter) associated with the job posting. You may also make this request by contacting talentacquisition@pgn.com or by calling 503-464-7250. The Recruiter will provide information and next steps for the accommodation process. Our Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) team is also available for support. You can contact them at dei@pgn.com .

To be considered for this position, please complete the following employment application by the posting close date. Posting closes at midnight (Pacific Time) on the closing date below. If no date is listed, job is open until filled.

May 5, 2024

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