Electric Generation Manager

Eugene Water and Electric Board • Eugene, OR

3d • Hybrid

About The Position

EWEB seeks an Electric Generation Manager to lead the operation, planning, and long-term performance of our owned electric generation assets, including hydroelectric, wind, and thermal. This role combines operational leadership with strategic planning, to ensure safe, reliable, and compliant power generation while shaping the future of our energy portfolio. As Electric Generation Manager, you will play a critical role in keeping our community-powered utilities running smoothly. You’ll oversee teams responsible for operations, engineering, dam safety, regulatory compliance, and emergency response, while ensuring alignment with organizational goals and regulatory requirements. Your leadership will directly influence asset performance, capital investment decisions, and long-term planning. Acting as EWEB’s representative with regulatory agencies, contractors, and community stakeholders, you will help define the future of the region’s energy generation while ensuring high standards of safety and compliance. Over the next several years, EWEB will be implementing the major capital infrastructure requirements of a FERC license, developing decommissioning plans for another hydroelectric project, and making long-term asset decisions—initiatives that will shape the organization’s energy strategy for decades. This position is ideal for a leader with significant experience in electric generation operations and management, who thrives at the intersection of operational oversight, strategic planning, and stakeholder engagement, and who is motivated by making a lasting impact on both the organization and the community it serves. Applications received by Monday, March 30th will receive full consideration. Applications submitted after this date may not be reviewed due to application volume.

Requirements

• Ten (10) years of progressively responsible work experience in a directly related functional field, which includes five (5) years of direct supervision and at least three (3) years of divisional management over multiple operations groups.
• An equivalent combination of professional, senior, lead, or project management experience may satisfy the management requirement.
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, biology, environmental science, public policy, or another related field.
• In lieu of a degree, additional relevant experience may be substituted on a 1:1 basis (e.g. four additional years’ experience in lieu of a bachelor’s degree).
• Oregon driver license required: Yes
• Post-offer background check required: Yes
• Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the United States.
• EWEB is unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time.

Nice To Haves

• Direct experience negotiating and administering contracts, settlements, and intergovernmental agreements related to electric generation projects and natural resource management.
• Familiarity with engineering design processes and large-scale construction project management.

Benefits

• EWEB values total worker health both at work and at home, and provides a robust compensation & benefits package
• health care
• vacation and sick leave
• pension
• holidays
• wellness programs
• an employee credit union

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager