Pacific Power · 1 month ago
T&D Standards-Engineer(I, II, Sr, SrII, Principal) Salt Lake City, UT #112594
Salt Lake City, UT
Full-time
Onsite
Entry, Mid, Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$78K/yr - $154K/yr
2+ years expPacifiCorp 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 T&D Standards Engineer will create, revise, and update engineering standards affecting distribution systems design while collaborating with internal groups and external suppliers to ensure material integrity and compliance with regulations.
ComputerElectronicsEnergy
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 (e.g. NESC) 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
Qualification
Required
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
Demonstrated ability to find effective solutions to problems
Fundamental understanding of pertinent governing body rules, regulations, and requirements like NESC, GO 95, IEEE, ASTM, ASCE, as they relate to material, material installation, and procedures
Ability to identify material failure modes in 25% of the material in area of responsibility and how to detect them, both before and after failure
A minimum of two years of experience in designing transmission, and distribution systems, or related professional experience
A minimum of two years of experience applying troubleshooting techniques to address material-related distribution, transmission outages
Ability to communicate technical information effectively and persuasively to larger internal groups
A minimum of two years of experience in designing with, or the use of, wildfire mitigation technologies, strategies, and solutions
Ability to research and efficiently identify applicable governing body rules, regulations, and requirements such as NESC, GO 95, IEEE, ASTM, ASCE, as they relate to material, material installation, and procedures
Ability to identify material failure modes in 50% of the material in area of responsibility and how to detect them, both before and after failure
A minimum of four years of experience in designing transmission, and distribution systems, or related professional experience
A minimum of four years of experience applying troubleshooting techniques to address material-related distribution, transmission outages
Ability to communicate technical information effectively and persuasively in presentation format to larger external groups, including people with a less technical background
A minimum of four years of experience in designing with, or the use of, wildfire mitigation technologies, strategies, and solutions
Ability to competently identify and interpret applicable governing body rules, regulations, and requirements such as NESC, GO 95, IEEE, ASTM, ASCE, as they relate to material, material installation, and procedures
Ability to identify material failure modes in 75% of the material in area of responsibility and how to detect them, both before and after failure
A minimum of six years of experience in designing transmission, and distribution systems, or related professional experience
A minimum of six years of experience applying troubleshooting techniques to address material-related distribution, transmission outages
Ability to communicate technical information effectively and persuasively to company executives
A minimum of six years of experience in designing with, or the use of, wildfire mitigation technologies, strategies, and solutions
Expert ability to identify and interpret applicable governing body rules, regulations, and requirements such as NESC, GO 95, IEEE, ASTM, ASCE, as they relate to material, material installation, and procedures
Ability to identify material failure modes in all the material in area of responsibility and how to detect them, both before and after failure
A minimum of ten years of experience in designing distribution or transmission systems, or related professional experience
A minimum of ten years of experience troubleshooting distribution or transmission outages, with respect to material failures
A minimum of ten years of experience in the use of wildfire mitigation technologies, strategies, and solutions
Preferred
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
Company
Pacific Power
Pacific Power & Light started from several small electric companies, serving areas of Oregon and Washington.
5001-10000 employees
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