Principal Capital Portfolio Planning Engineer

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

Capital Planning Subfunction: Performs technical validation on project scope and objectives, including project cost benefit analysis and project prioritization on PGE’s capital investments.  Manage intake of new capital projects and programs through ideation, evaluation, technical scope development and project authorization and ensures projects deliver on expected value and benefits aligns with corporate initiatives.

Career Level Summary 

Principal Capital Portfolio Planning Engineer 7164 

Grade 8 

Career Level: P4 

• Specialist Professional: Requires specialized depth and/or breadth of expertise. 

• Interprets internal or external business issues and recommends best practices. 

• Solves complex problems; takes a broad perspective to identify innovative solutions. 

• Works independently, with guidance in only the most complex situations. 

• May lead functional teams or projects. 

Key Responsibilities 

• Engineering Standards: Maintains currency in state-of-the-art engineering practices and discerns need for and provides guidance and direction to colleagues on engineering processes and standards. 

• Engineering Validation: Verifies a variety of complex engineering deliverables for larger or multiple projects, including establishing work plans to be applied. 

• Portfolio Management: Facilitates the portfolio intake and prioritization process, including alignment to standards. Performs technical review of proposed project or program and proposes scope changes to ensure the project delivers the expected value and benefits. Assists leadership with tracking of incoming project work. Conducts and supports regular meetings (monthly, quarterly and annually) to review new portfolio requests and determine priority. Understands the impact of additions and/or changes on resources, construction sequencing and delivery. Works with stakeholders and functional teams to logically group projects for efficient delivery. Understands interdependencies across projects and pro