About the position
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. The role involves creating, revising, and updating engineering standards that affect all levels of distribution systems design for the company. The candidate will work with other internal groups to technically evaluate external suppliers and manufacturers, ensuring material integrity and reliability. The position requires specialized expertise in interpreting relevant federal, state, and governing body regulations, as well as expertise in material failure modes and the inspection and troubleshooting techniques used to detect them. This role may involve up to 10% travel.
Responsibilities
- Support procurement in efforts to increase material redundancy and resolve material shortages.
- Collaborate directly with suppliers to foster strong business relationships.
- Evaluate suppliers' ability to manufacture material effectively and reliably.
- Review manufacturer drawings to ensure that they conform to internal specifications and standards.
- Develop and maintain publications describing material, material specifications and installation of material.
- Ensure that all publications and materials comply with all applicable federal, state, and governing body regulations and requirements.
- Lead or assist in investigations into equipment failures, ensuring root causes are identified and necessary corrective actions are implemented to prevent future failures.
- Pursue, analyze, pilot, and review new technologies for the purpose of cost reduction, reliability improvement and wildfire mitigation.
- Provide field support to address issues related to equipment, standards, and compliance.
- Collaborate with field teams to resolve technical challenges and ensure safe and efficient operation.
- Review joint use applications, pole sizing requests.
- Provide recommendations for the use of material based on specific applications.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in engineering from an accredited college/university.
- Understanding of the role of governing body rules, regulations, and requirements in engineering standards.
- Understanding of the benefit of recognizing material failure modes and their detection.
- A fundamental understanding of civil, transmission, and distribution system layouts, including their key constituent components.
- Understanding the role of troubleshooting distribution, transmission outages, with respect to material failures.
- Demonstrated communication and interpersonal skills involving the ability to work cross-functionally to understand requirements, present alternatives, and recommendations.
- Demonstrated ability to communicate technical information effectively to a group of peers.
- Demonstrated ability to remain calm in potentially charged conversations.
- Demonstrated ability to successfully research information not currently existing in organization.
- Fundamental understanding of wildfire mitigation technologies, strategies, and solutions.
Nice-to-haves
- Project Management Professional (PMP) designation.
- Advanced degree in EE or ME with emphasis on power.
- Professional Engineering License.
Benefits
- Health care
- Retirement
- Paid time off
- Tuition assistance
- Paid short-term and long-term disability
- Paid bereavement leave
