Portland General Electric

Operations

• Design, develop, implement and oversee safety programs protecting employees, contractors and the public
• Ensure compliance with applicable laws, standards and regulations
• Support line operations in Wilsonville, Beaverton and Hillsboro by rotating daily to lead 7:00 a.m. safety meetings
• Work Monday–Friday, 6:30 a.m.–3:00 p.m., except during incident management team activation
• Participate in 24/7 safety duty phone coverage approximately once every five weeks
• Conduct safety risk analysis during project constructability reviews and construction planning
• Evaluate contractor RFPs, bidder qualifications, bids and contractor selection
• Conduct routine and complex investigations, incident reviews and root-cause analyses
• Develop reports, analyze trends, and prepare and present communications
• Coordinate follow-up action items related to reports and investigations
• Lead process-improvement projects and benchmarking efforts
• Develop and administer safety programs, guidelines and initiatives
• Integrate industry best practices and continuously improve interactive safety programs with contractors
• Serve as a subject-matter expert to managers and employees
• Design and deliver safety education programs for managers, employees and community organizations
• Lead special projects and facilitate safety meetings and processes
• Potentially lead emergency and incident response
• Improve communication with contractors to share and operationalize safety best practices
• Respond to regulator information requests and prepare legally required filings and reports
• Analyze regulatory changes and implement appropriate actions

Senior Safety Coordinator – Line Operations

Associate

• Support vegetation management operations within an assigned region under the direction of a Senior Forester
• Respond to customer calls
• Create and manage work orders in Quickbase
• Support outage investigations and document findings
• Conduct field quality-control and safety audits
• Conduct vegetation-management scoping
• Analyze risks and prioritize jobs according to urgency and location
• Plan and organize vegetation-clearance activities
• Schedule work assignments and contract crews based on manager priorities
• Review contractor performance against PGE standards and specifications
• Monitor crew productivity and vegetation-clearance expenditures against statements of work
• Adapt tree-pruning practices to optimize resource use
• Respond to region engineering questions
• Represent PGE’s Forestry department to contractors
• Schedule meetings to explain and resolve problems
• Coordinate herbicide applications with the PGE transmission forester
• Coordinate vegetation clearance with line-restoration crews during emergencies
• Interface with regional line operations to determine maintenance and construction vegetation-clearance needs
• Coordinate clearance and selective herbicide applications with city, county, and state agencies
• Ensure work meets applicable standards, regulations, and agreements
• Review new standards, regulations, and agreements and identify potential impacts
• Report to the assigned operations center, collect a company vehicle, and travel throughout the assigned region

Senior Safety Coordinator – Line Operations

Associate Forester