Transmission & Distribution Asset Manager

Portland General Electric • Portland, OR

1d • Onsite

About The Position

At PGE, our work involves dreaming about, planning for, and realizing a smarter, cleaner, more enduring Oregon neighborhood. Its core to our DNA and we haven’t stopped since we started in 1888. We energize lives, strengthen communities and drive advancements in energy that promote social, economic and environmental progress. We’re always on the lookout for people passionate about leading and being a part of teams that are advancing innovative clean energy solutions that are also affordable and accessible to all.
Portland General Electric (PGE) is hiring a Transmission & Distribution Asset Manager.
The Transmission & Distribution Asset Manager provides senior-level technical and strategic leadership for the lifecycle management of PGE’s transmission, distribution and substation assets. This role evaluates asset condition, performance, risk and cost to develop investment strategies and capital plans that support safety, reliability, customer affordability and regulatory requirements.
Working across engineering, operations, finance, project management, regulatory and risk functions, the Asset Manager serves as a subject matter expert on asset health and performance and translates complex technical, financial and risk information into evidence-based investment recommendations aligned with PGE's long-term objectives.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, civil engineering, mechanical engineering or a related technical discipline from an ABET-accredited engineering program or program accredited by an equivalent agency in a related field or equivalent experience.
• Master's degree in engineering, business administration, asset management or a related field preferred.
• Typically eight or more years of progressive experience in electric utility engineering, operations, asset management or a related field (for P4).
• Typically five or more years of progressive experience in electric utility engineering, operations, asset management or a related field (for P3).
• Experience with capital investment planning, asset risk assessment, lifecycle analysis or related investment planning in a regulated utility environment.
• Experience with transmission, distribution and substation infrastructure, including overhead and underground distribution, transmission lines, substations and protection systems.
• Experience supporting utility rate cases or regulatory proceedings preferred.
• Familiarity with applicable NERC reliability standards, FERC requirements and ISO Asset Management framework preferred.
• Professional Engineer (PE) license preferred.
• Advanced knowledge of T&D asset lifecycle management, including asset condition, failure modes, end-of-life indicators and renewal strategies.
• Knowledge of risk-based investment prioritization and asset management principles.
• Strong financial and analytical skills, including NPV, cost-benefit, lifecycle cost and capital versus O&M analysis.
• Knowledge of utility capital planning and regulatory processes, including rate-base treatment and prudency considerations.
• Working knowledge of utility asset and work management systems, such as Oracle, IBM Maximo or equivalent, and GIS-based asset information and analysis tools.
• Ability to synthesize technical, operational, financial and risk information into clear, defensible investment recommendations.
• Strategic thinking and sound business judgment, with the ability to balance near- and long-term priorities and make recommendations amid uncertainty and competing demands.
• Advanced written, verbal and presentation skills, including the ability to communicate complex technical and financial information to technical, leadership and regulatory audiences.
• Ability to collaborate, influence and build alignment across functions without direct authority.
• Knowledge of Pacific Northwest utility operating conditions, including wildfire, seismic and regional regulatory considerations.
• Knowledge of project management science, methodologies and standards.
• Knowledge of and ability to integrate project management knowledge areas, including project scope, quality, time, cost, communication, procurement, human resources and risk management.
• Knowledge of and skill in using relevant software applications.
• Knowledge of business process reengineering and continuous improvement methods and concepts.
• Knowledge of systems thinking concepts and principles.
• Knowledge of group problem-solving methods and techniques, including problem analysis, nominal group and brainstorming techniques and consensus building.
• Listening skills, including the ability to draw information out and to see things from another’s perspective.
• Skills in writing technical and business requirements.
• Communication skills, both written and oral, including negotiation, persuasion and presentation skills.
• Intermediate knowledge of and skill in using software applications such as MS Project, PowerPoint, Word, Excel spreadsheets and graphing, Access, Visio, Maximo and Power Plant (for P3).
• Intermediate knowledge of Project Profile system and PGE email system (for P3).
• Decision-making skills
• Negotiation skills
• Organization and prioritization skills
• Presentation/facilitation skills
• Team-building skills
• Written and oral communication skills
• Consulting Skills
• Enterprise/business awareness skills
• Substantial - consistent use of logic or scientific thinking to define problems, collect information, establish facts and draw valid conclusions.
• Ability to adhere to set response times, deadlines and time-sensitive tasks
• Ability to follow accuracy standards
• Ability to follow through on decision-making tasks
• Ability to interact effectively and collaboratively within a team environment
• Ability to communicate and problem solve when under stress
• Ability to respond and adapt to frequent change
• Ability to accept and demonstrate self-awareness when provided constructive feedback
• Ability to discern feedback and acknowledge ownership of areas of improvement
• Ability to avoid future mistakes by applying reasonable skills to new but similar work situations or tasks
• Ability to successfully collaborate with peers, managers and others within the organization
• Demonstrates sound memory
• Ability to process new information to be applied consistently to work tasks
• Ability to adhere to pre-established schedule, including start/stop time and break/lunch schedule
• Ability to work long hours
• Ability to work a variable schedule
• Ability to report to work and perform work during periods of severe inclement weather
• Ability to consistently meet attendance standards for regular, reliable, predictable, full-time attendance
• Ability to work shift schedule
• Ability to work on-call schedule
• Occasional daily within service territory (1-2 times a month or less)
• Occasional overnight inside/outside the service territory (1-2 times a month or less)
• Computer use (use computer regularly for entire work shift)
• Lifting/pushing/pulling (check appropriate weight): Up to 10 lbs.
• Carrying: Up to 10 lbs.

Nice To Haves

• Master's degree in engineering, business administration, asset management or a related field
• Experience supporting utility rate cases or regulatory proceedings
• Familiarity with applicable NERC reliability standards, FERC requirements and ISO Asset Management framework
• Professional Engineer (PE) license

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain asset strategies and multi-year investment plans for PGE's transmission, distribution and substation infrastructure, incorporating asset condition, performance, lifecycle needs, system priorities and risk.
• Evaluate portfolio health and emerging risks across major asset classes, including critical and higher-risk equipment, to identify investment needs and recommend changes to established plans when warranted.
• Partner with Asset and Wildfire Risk team to incorporate asset health, probability and consequence of failure, risk tolerance and mitigation priorities into asset planning and investment decisions.
• Coordinate with engineering and field teams to support consistent asset condition assessment and monitoring and improve the quality of information used in lifecycle decisions.
• Advance asset management and prioritization practices by incorporating condition data, failure history, system performance and emerging risks into investment strategies.
• Translate asset strategies, condition and risk priorities into annual and multi-year capital plans, including investment prioritization, program sequencing and spend forecasts.
• Develop business cases and evaluate investment alternatives using lifecycle cost, cost-benefit, NPV and capital versus O&M analysis to support cost-effective investment decisions.
• Partner with Operations and Planning, the Project Management Office and other stakeholders to develop program estimates and forecasts, including volume assumptions, unit costs and escalation factors.
• Coordinate with other asset managers, the Asset Strategy Aggregator and project development teams to optimize asset replacement scope and identify opportunities to coordinate future investments.
• Present investment recommendations and supporting analysis through PGE's T&D capital governance and approval processes.
• Monitor capital program performance, including cost, schedule, scope and unit-cost trends, and partner with program stakeholders to identify and support corrective actions when needed.
• Maintain business justification, investment analysis and supporting documentation sufficient to demonstrate prudent decision-making and support regulatory review.
• Serve as an asset management technical resource for rate cases, FERC filings, Distribution System Plan and other regulatory proceedings involving T&D investments.
• Develop asset condition evidence, investment justification, cost-benefit analysis and other technical support for regulatory submissions, testimony, data requests and stakeholder presentations.
• Monitor relevant state regulatory requirements, FERC proceedings and NERC reliability standards and assess potential impacts to asset strategies, investment priorities and capital cost recovery.
• Partner with Asset Management Analytics and leadership to establish and monitor asset management performance measures, including reliability, asset health, capital delivery and risk reduction.
• Evaluate and report portfolio health, investment performance, emerging risks and progress against asset strategy and risk-reduction objectives.
• Benchmark PGE's asset management and reliability performance against relevant utility and industry data and use results to identify opportunities to improve asset strategies and investment decisions.
• Build alignment across engineering, operations, finance, project management, regulatory, Asset and Wildfire Risk and other stakeholders to support coordinated asset management and investment decisions.

Benefits

• performance based incentive bonus
• 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.

What This Job Offers

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