Senior Power Plant Turbine Mechanical Engineer

About PGE

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.

As a Senior level Power Plant Mechanical Engineer, you’ll be the driving force behind our mission. Your expertise will extend to the very heart of our operations, from the intense combustion turbines to the intricate steam turbine systems.

• Forge the Future:
  You’ll be a visionary, innovator, and change‑maker who plans, designs, and orchestrates the maintenance of thermal power plant systems, ensuring peak efficiency, establishing new industry standards and procedures for cost‑effective, sustainable solutions.
• Power the World:
  You’ll be part of the team that plans, designs, and maintains thermal power plant systems and components with a global impact.
• Lead with Innovation:
  You will pioneer new standards and procedures, creating cost‑effective solutions that shape the industry.
• Hands‑On Involvement: A desk job? Not here. You’ll provide on‑site engineering support—typically a day trip, sometimes longer during outage season or forced outage—ensuring generation assets meet industry standards, codes, and regulations, particularly in combustion and steam turbine engineering.
• Unleash Your Expertise:
  Specializing in combustion and steam turbine engineering, you’ll lead major maintenance activities and component upgrades, develop specifications, coordinate fabrication, and drive successful outcomes.
• Quality Matters:
  You will maintain and elevate quality levels and industry standards, ensuring excellence is the norm.
• Always Learning:
  You’ll continue to grow and develop, benefiting from PGE’s investment in education, licensure, industry conferences and further education.

• Engineering Standards: Maintains currency in state‑of‑the‑art engineering practices and provides guidance and direction on engineering processes and standards to colleagues as requested. Utilizes thorough understanding and interpretation of applicable codes (ASME B31.1 Power Piping, ASME Boiler Pressure Vessel Code, ANSI, NFPA, etc.) and serves as a resource for guidance.
• Engineering Production: Prepares complex engineering deliverables for large or multiple projects, coordinates multidisciplinary activity. Analyzes and recommends design enhancements to operation, reliability, safety, and regulatory compliance; reviews calculations; supports root‑cause analyses; prepares reports and design packages; develops solutions and initiates corrective actions; provides design direction to engineers, technicians, draftsmen, and designers.
• Project Coordination: Actively coordinates with internal/external team members on moderately complex projects, represents the team to stakeholders, reviews junior engineering work, selects design methodologies and solutions, leads work with other engineering departments, plant staff, environmental services, nondestructive examination team and reliability‑centered maintenance team, scopes, plans, schedules and directs major and minor projects, prepares budget estimates and tracks costs.
• Knowledge Sharing: Acts as a technical specialist, provides consultation and guidance to project teams regarding steam and combustion turbine technology, fosters knowledge management, mentors, and implements resource‑management strategy.

• Requires a bachelor’s degree in engineering. Preferred from an ABET‑accredited program or equivalent.

• Typically five or more years in engineering, or four or more years in a related field with a professional engineering (PE) license.

• Professional Engineering (PE) license strongly preferred; may be required for the role.
• Valid driver’s license required.