Manager Distribution Operations Engineering

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Manager, Distribution Operations Engineering

Job Summary:

This leadership position manages the Distribution Operations Engineering organization and is responsible for providing strategic and technical leadership for engineering programs that support the safe, reliable, resilient, and efficient operation of Portland General Electric's electric distribution system. Reporting within the Standards, System Health & Maintenance organization, this role leads a team of engineers responsible for power system analysis, scoping distribution reliability and resiliency improvements, supporting outage restoration, system planning, power quality, industrial customers, and continuous improvement of electric system operations.

This position support engineers at our operations centers west of the West Hills of Portland south past Salem and can be based in Beaverton, Hillsboro, and possibly other operations centers in this region.

As the leader of this critical engineering function, you will provide direction and oversight for engineering activities supporting control center operations, field operations, planned and emergent system work, distribution outage coordination, switching strategies, operational technology systems, and emergency response activities. The organization serves as a key technical resource for electric system operations by developing engineering solutions and operating strategies that maintain reliability, support customer service, reduce operational risk, and improve situational awareness across the power system.

This role partners closely with the System Control Center, Power Delivery Operations, System Planning, Maintenance Engineering, Project Management Office, Customer Service, Local Government Affairs, Key Customer Managers, and external reliability organizations to ensure that operational decisions, grid technologies, engineering analyses, and operational obligations are effectively coordinated and executed.

The position is accountable for advancing operational excellence through engineering analysis, outage readiness, system restoration planning, grid modernization initiatives, and reliability performance improvement programs. The role also develops technical capability across the organization, provides leadership during system emergencies and abnormal operating conditions, and serves as a key advocate for safety, reliability, resiliency, and operational excellence across PGE's electric system.

Key Areas of Accountability:

Distribution Operations Engineering leadership and organizational performance

Control center engineering support and operational decision support

Power system analysis and support

Grid reliability, resiliency, and risk management

Outage restoration and emergency response engineering

System operating plans and outage coordination

Operational technology, ADMS, and control system support

Power quality and specialized customer reliability technical support

Grid modernization and advanced distribution management initiatives

Distribution system modeling and analytics

Reliability improvement and system hardening programs

Financial management and resource planning

Talent development, technical mentoring, and succession planning

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