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SUMMARY
This leadership position will manage the Substation & Transmission Maintenance Engineering teams while reporting to the Standards, System Health & Maintenance organization and based in Tualatin, Oregon at the Avery Regional Service Center. This role is focused specifically on supporting a team of engineers responsible for supporting the transmission and substation maintenance programs for Portland General Electric-owned assets.
As a leader of these critical engineering functions, you will focus on day-to-day tactical support and long-term development of a team of engineers while working to improve work management and maintenance planning processes between operations and crew scheduling teams. You will also be responsible for ensuring timely and coordinated escalation of urgent asset health needs, supporting the spare equipment strategy, and working to advocate for aging asset replacement programs.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Maintenance Engineering Management - Manages a team of maintenance engineering professionals in transmission maintenance and substation maintenance responsible for providing functional and economical engineering solutions to operations and maintenance problems through improvement and maintenance of plant safety, reliability, efficiency and regulatory compliance in a responsible and progressive manner; provides technical management for the team, ensuring that objectives are met and all relevant standards/procedures are followed; ensures that operational problems are identified and resolved; ensures that operational procedures and working practices are current and fit for the purpose.
- Maintenance Program Management - Manages the substation maintenance subfunction, ensuring accomplishment of engineered solutions in support of new substations and operations and maintenance of existing facilities, that technical support to crews on maintenance engineering designs is provided and that maintenance plans for substation apparatus are developed and maintained.
- Financial Management - Monitors and manages expenditures, ensuring that all financial targets are met, and examines any areas where budgets/expenditures vary from plan; assists with the definition and operation of effective financial controls and decision making.
- Resourcing - Oversees resourcing decisions and planning for team; partners with HR in the definition of jobs, recruitment, evaluation and selection processes.
- Professional Development - Reviews organizational development needs and training strategies to determine required learning and development outcomes for the team; provides guidance in the creation of development plans; monitors ongoing progress and provides coaching and mentoring and provides feedback; completes annual performance management reviews.
EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE/CERTIFICATIONS
Education
- Requires a bachelor's degree in engineering. ABET-accredited engineering program or program accredited by an equivalent agency preferred.
Experience
- Prefer eight or more years in engineering.
Certifications
- Professional Engineering (PE) license strongly preferred; may be required based upon role.
COMPETENCIES (KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, ABILITIES)
Functional Competencies
- Expert knowledge of engineering and economic principles and concepts.
- Advanced knowledge of other engineering disciplines and advanced ability to interpret engineering deliverable content as assigned.
- Expert understanding and application of engineering processes and procedures; intermediate knowledge of other related departments and functions.
- Advanced industry knowledge and technology trends.
- Advanced knowledge of company QA/QC process and procedures.
- Expert knowledge of construction feasibility.
- Intermediate knowledge of procurement and contract administration.
- Advanced knowledge of process and procedures for project controls and estimates.
- Competencies: Substation Maintenance Subfunction
- Advanced ability to review, evaluate and analyze technical information, policies and reports.
- Competencies: Plant Maintenance Subfunction
General Competencies
- Advanced analytical thinking skills.
- Advanced decision-making skills.
- Advanced knowledge of the utility industry.
- Advanced organization and prioritization skills.
- Intermediate organization management skills.
- Intermediate resource management skills.
- Advanced risk management skills.
- Advanced written and oral communication skills.
- Managerial Competencies
- Intermediate ability to engage employees.
- Intermediate ability to achieve results.
- Intermediate ability to build capability.
- Intermediate ability to design work.
- Intermediate ability to uphold values.
PHYSICAL, COGNITIVE DEMANDS AND SCHEDULE/ATTENDANCE
Physical
- Does the job require a valid driver's license? - Yes
- Driving/travel/commute: Daily within service territory - Occasionally (one to two times a month or less)
- Driving/travel/commute: Overnight inside/outside the service territory - Occasionally (one to two times a month or less)
- Computer use (use computer regularly for entire work shift)
- Lifting/pushing/pulling (check appropriate weight): Up to 10 lb
- Carrying (check appropriate weight): Up to 10 lb
- Unstable surfaces requiring balance (i.e., moving equipment, boats); check all that apply:
- Walking distances and surfaces (long distances and over rough, uneven or rocky surfaces)
Cognitive Demands
- 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
Schedule/Attendance
- 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 [for part-time positions, change to part-time attendance]
- Ability to work shift schedule
- Ability to work on-call schedule
Environment
- Office environment
- Plant environment
- Field environment
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:
$131,110.00 - $243,490.00
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.
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March 12, 2026