Senior Manager Engineering Services

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:

At Portland General Electric, we’re committed to delivering safe, reliable, and sustainable energy to our community—and we need strong leaders to help us get there. As a Senior Manager Engineering Services of Standard, Maintenance and System Health, you will provide leadership to managers and professional associates as well as be accountable for the performance and results of multiple related teams. 

In this role, you will develop departmental plans, including business, production and/or organizational priorities and decision making will be guided by department/district objectives.

Key Job Information

Senior Manager Engineering Services 6946

Grade 10

Career Level: M3

Key Responsibilities

• General Management:  Oversees multiple departments that provide engineering support and services to utility operations and support PGE’s service delivery and reliability. 
• Engineering Operations:  Oversees departmental operations; provides leadership to a professional workforce through multiple direct report managers.  Ensures all departments and functions operate in alignment with federal, state and local regulations, standards, laws, regulations and company policies and strategies. Fosters a safe and healthy culture, holds managers and employees accountable for working safely, consistently and fairly, enforcing all safety, health and work rules. Ensures that all managers implement all aspects of managerial accountabilities and foster a culture and environment in line with PGE’s values. Ensures that employees develop an operational understanding of PGE’s strategic direction; departmental vision, values and goals; customer focus; and the impact of departmental functions and activities on customers and PGE’s bottom line.     
• Manage Strategy:  Develops strategies for establishing highest-level functional priorities and ensuring achievement of major corporate objectives; interprets corporate policies and direction statements to carry out intent of senior management. Establishes partnerships with other departments/functional areas to develop and implement plans in response to changing markets, competitive pressures and customer expectations.
• Manage External/Internal Relationships:  Communicates engineering plans, budgets and recommendations; works proactively with peer managers/directors and peer utilities to leverage best practices; works strategically with peer managers/directors to ensure the most effective use of resources, including resource sharing to offset outside labor costs; works with FERC Compliance, Environmental Services and Utility Operations to develop a strategy to meet regulatory requirements; provides expert testimony and represents the company’s position related to functional area.
• Functional Leadership:  Exercises comprehensive functional and industry knowledge in specialized areas; identifies and resolves complex multidimensional business problems; exercises delegated authority over planning, direction and timely execution for a functional area or program; establishes and maintains contacts with management levels within and outside the company and at government agencies and with industry experts in accomplishing function or program objectives.
• Financial Management:  Sets strategy and develops plans, policies and processes for the accounting, budgeting and, where applicable, charging of department resources and services, including the definition of cost models and charging models; sets, negotiates, approves and manages all financial budgets and targets, ensuring that there is adequate funding for department objectives and plans.
• Resourcing:  Oversees workforce planning and resource strategy across multiple departments, ensuring that there is adequate skilled resource to meet planned service delivery or department objectives; ensures integration with strategic human resource plans; responsible for recruitment, development and demand forecasts for multiple departments.
• Professional