Principal/Senior Electrical Design Project Engineer - Power Generation

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.

Summary

Join us in leading the transformation of renewable energy at scale. As a Senior or Principal Electrical Design Project Engineer on our Power Supply Engineering Services team, you won’t just support renewable energy—you’ll shape its future. You'll provide technical leadership and strategic direction in the design and integration of complex electrical systems across hydro, wind, solar, and energy storage projects that power Oregon’s clean energy transition.

Your Role: As a senior leader in the engineering team, you’ll be responsible for high-impact, high-visibility projects that influence how we deliver reliable, sustainable energy. Here’s what you’ll take on:

• Strategic Design Leadership: Lead the development, procurement, and integration of sophisticated electrical systems for renewable assets. Your work ensures the safety, reliability, and long-term viability of utility-scale power infrastructure.

• Innovation & Influence: Tackle emerging technical challenges in renewable energy by designing creative, forward-thinking solutions. Your insights will guide not only project outcomes but also future design standards and practices.

• Reliability & Risk Management: Apply deep technical expertise to assess system risk, ensure regulatory compliance (e.g., NERC/WECC, NEC/NESC), and drive continuous improvement in how our facilities perform under real-world demands.

*We're hiring for a position open to both Senior and Principal candidates. The level will be determined based on the successful applicant's qualifications, experience, and demonstrated skills during the interview process.

Career Level Summary

Senior Electrical Design Project Engineer
Serves as a lead engineer on complex plant design projects. Independently manages engineering solutions and project execution. Provides technical support and shares knowledge across teams. Coordinates efforts with internal partners to support safe and efficient plant operations.

Principal Electrical Design Project Engineer
Serves as a company-wide expert in plant electrical design. Provides leadership and technical direction for large-scale and cross-functional engineering initiatives. Guides development of design standards and plays a key role in advancing knowledge sharing, mentoring, and regulatory alignment.

Key Responsibilities

Senior:

Engineering Standards: Maintains currency in state-of-the- art engineering practices and provides guidance and direction on engineering processes and standards to colleagues when requested.

Supports Compliance with extended professional knowledge of NERC/WECC Reliability Standards and NERC Critical Infrastructure Protection; applies working knowledge of NEC and NESC for plant design, construction and support; applies working knowledge of power generation facilities for design and support; applies IEEE standards for specification development, plant design and support; provides technical guidance on plant designs, construction and support to other engineers and plant staffs.

Engineering Production: Prepares a variety of complex engineering deliverables for larger or multiple projects; coordinates multiple-discipline activity. Develops and provides quality assurance reviews of engineering solutions that meet technical requirements, all applicable codes and regulatory requirements and follow sound engineering practice.

Analyzes and completes complex electrical designs and studies, providing data and recommendations on technical matters to management; manages complex electrical projects.

Project Coordination: Actively coordinates with other internal/external team members on moderately complex projects, including representing the team to interdepartmental and external (regulatory) stakeholders.

Plans, develops and coordinates projects with complex design, construction, operation, maintenance or testing elements in support of engineering and construction needs of hydro, wind and thermal plants; provides accurate capital budget and job estimates.

Knowledge Sharing: Serves as a technical specialist and provides consultation/guidance to project teams in a practice area; actively fosters knowledge management and provides mentorin