Associate Commercial Transmission Specialist

POWER YOUR GREATNESS!

PacifiCorp is seeking customer-centric candidates to grow and sustain our commitment to a culture of customer service excellence, environmental sustainability inclusion & belonging.
 

General Purpose

Assist with managing  and optimizing Company’s merchant transmission assets, help analyze and negotiate the purchase of new merchant transmission rights, and provide guidance in the sale and remarketing of merchant transmission rights, consistent with the strategic direction of the Company. Help manage network, point-to-point and legacy transmission agreements with transmission providers with the overall goal to reduce risk and enhance net power costs for customers.

Responsibilities

• Assist in strategically managing, analyzing and optimizing the company’s long-term merchant transmission portfolio to ensure adequate transmission for company generation, contracts and new transactions while reducing risk and net power costs for customers.
• Help to manage rights and obligations in existing network, point-to-point and legacy transmission agreement obligations with transmission providers, including but not limited to PacifiCorp and the Bonneville Power Administration.
• Review proposed short and long term transactions for transmission deliverability.
• Participate in analyzing, developing, facilitating, and implementing transmission service and/or balancing authority area (BAA) solutions for complex, multi-faceted projects involving multiple project areas and stakeholders.
• Contribute to developing and implementing short-term transmission optimization strategies to reduce net power costs for customers.
• Work with transmission providers on issues relating to business practices, transmission service obligations/provisions, transmission outages, OASIS, and technical systems implementation.
• Compile, analyze, interpret, and summarize transmission, resource and related data, needed to produce and defend analytical studies and recommendations.  
• Carry out short, medium and long-term monitoring and analysis of transmission system outages to ensure cost effective optimization.
• Utilize, maintain, and support trading and data collection platforms. 
• Support company business platform tasks supporting Integrated Resource Planning, business plan updates, system balancing, and reliability standard compliance.
• Support General Rate Case filings fulfilling data request assignments responses via data collection, analysis, written responses and peer review.
• Develop relationships and communicate requirements with traders, schedulers, other utilities and transmission providers in order to enhance PacifiCorp's ability to reliably and profitably serve our customer base.
• Work within Company policies, systems, evaluation and approval practices, procedures, WECC systems, CAISO scheduling, congestion management procedures and integration, standard transmission tariff rules and applicable federal, state and local laws and regulations.

Requirements

• Bachelor of Science in Engineering, Mathematics, Finance or a related field; or the equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Demonstrated capability to carry out complicated analysis combining multiple sources of data, inputs, and sensitivities.
• Ability to work in a team environment with a strong ability to think independently and facilitate cooperation.  
• Knowledge of company policies, procedures, and practices, and applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations.
• Communication and interpersonal skills to develop industry contacts, establish relationships, influence others’ positions and negotiate outcomes.
• Proficient in using personal computers and Microsoft Excel.
• Position work hours are non-standard

Preferences

• Demonstrated understanding of Company, WECC and CAISO transmission systems and concepts of open access transmission service 
• Proficiency in software and automated tools/platforms used in transmission systems, transmission analysis and energy trading/scheduling including but not limited to OATi/MCG products, PowerWorld, programming (VBA, R, Python)

Benefits

At PacifiCorp, we understand that living a healthy lifestyle isn’t just about your physical health — your mental, financial, and social wellbeing also play an important role. That’s why we offer a wide range of benefits designed to help you live a more balanced lifestyle

Our benefits include: 

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• 401k with match fixed contributions, including a Roth and saving option. For union employees, matching contributions vary by union. For nonunion, PacifiCorp makes a fixed contribution equal to 4% of your eligible pay each year for new hires. In addition, PacifiCorp matches 100% of the first 6% you contribute. 
• Life insurance
• Additional voluntary benefits, including pet insurance
• Tuition Assistance
• Mass Transit Pass for employees in our Portland and Salt Lake City Offices.

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Work Life Balance

• Generous Paid Time Off (PTO) - Time off varies by employee type (Union or Non-Union)
• Paid short-term disability leave and long-term disability insurance
• Paid Parental Leave
• Paid Bereavement Leave
• Employee Assistance Program supporting mental and emotional wellbeing

Additional Information

Req Id: 114941 
Company Code: PacifiCorp #PM25  
Primary Location: Portland, Oregon  (100% Onsite) 
Department: Power Supply 
Schedule: Full-Time
Personnel Subarea: Exempt
Hiring Range: $77,200.00 - $106,150.00 annually

Employees must be able to perform the essential functions of the position with or without an accommodation.

PacifiCorp is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion or religious creed, age, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status (except as required by law), gender (including gender identity and expression), sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, genetic information, physical or mental disability, medical condition, veteran or military status, familial or parental status, marital status or any other category protected by applicable local, state or U.S. federal law.

Unless otherwise required by law, all offers of employment are contingent upon the successful completion of a background check and drug screening including for marijuana. While marijuana is legal in several states, including Oregon, a positive test for positions in Oregon may disqualify a candidate. The company complies with the laws of Washington and California and only obtains and considers positive tests for marijuana in safety-sensitive positions or those covered by U.S. Department of Transportation regulations.