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This role is located in the Portland, Oregon area (Tualatin) and will be hybrid with some days remote and some days in the office.

Portland General Electric is seeking an atmospheric scientist to work as a trade-support meteorologist within in its Power Operations department. The successful candidate will work closely with energy traders/schedulers, risk management, balancing authority operators, wind/thermal generation plant personnel, and others on a day-to-day basis and will provide them with clear and concise weather forecasts to support their operations. The successful candidate will collaborate extensively with the Day Ahead and Real-Time traders.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Provide weather forecasts to energy traders to help them gain insight into how the weather affects power and natural gas prices.

• Provide daily written and spoken wind forecast for Day-Ahead and Real-Time.

• Participate on long-term trading strategies regarding renewables energy.

• Load forecasts that inform PGE’s risk management procedures, and plant and balancing authority operations

• Create hourly wind forecasts for day-ahead schedulers using a combination of publicly available models and wind vendor forecasts

• Analyze historical weather and energy production data and deliver reports to a variety of stakeholders.

• Be point of contact for PGE’s wind/solar vendors, and work with vendors to ensure timely and consistent delivery of forecasts.

• Interpret meteorological data and forecasts and communicate the forecasts/impacts to end-users.

• Provide energy forecasts for PGE’s wind/solar portfolio to energy traders and schedulers.

Backup Responsibilities:

• Assist storm preparedness and power restoration efforts by providing concise, detailed forecasts during periods of extreme weather to a variety of stakeholders.

• Work with Wildfire Mitigation and Resiliency department to create/improve risk-assessment models for wildfire and other weather-related hazards

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in meteorology, atmospheric sciences or other related field or equivalent experience.

• Eight or more years of related work experience, or combination of work and education.

Desired qualifications:

• Three or more years of weather forecasting experience in the energy and renewables sector

• Advanced knowledge and application of meteorological methods, techniques, and theory

• Advanced knowledge of Pacific Northwest weather patterns

• Some experience with scripting languages like Python and SQL for data analysis

• Experience with Excel and Tableau

• Ability to write technical documentation for internally developed products and modules

• Experience preparing findings and presenting complex technical information to both technical and nontechnical audiences.

• Excellent organizational skills and ability to efficiently handle multiple projects and requests.

• An understanding of the fundamental drivers of power and gas prices other than weather, such as transmission congestion & natural gas storage reports

• An understanding of how LMP electricity markets work, particularly the CAISO Energy Imbalance Market (EIM)

• Some knowledge of the power and gas trading, and risk management concepts

Competencies

• Advanced analytical thinking skills Intermediate conflict management skills

• Intermediate interpersonal skills Intermediate negotiation skills

• Advanced organization and prioritization skills

• Advanced problem-solving skills

• Advanced written and oral communication skills

• Consistent use of logic or scientific thinking to define problems, collect information, establish facts and draw valid conclusions (for example, engineer, HR director, plant manager, etc.).

• Ability to adhere to set response times, deadlines and time-sensitive tasks

• Ability to follow accuracy standards

• Ability to follow through on decision-making tasks

• Ability to interact effectively and collaboratively within a team environment

• Ability to respond and adapt to frequent change

• Ability to report to work and perform work during periods of severe inclement weather

• Ability to consistently meet attendance standards for regular, reliable, predictable, full-time attendance

• Ability to work on-call schedule and assist with storms as required

Driving/travel/commute: Hybrid commute, travel within service territory occasionally

Compensation Range:

$87,225.00 - $173,875.00

Actual total compensation, including a performance based incentive bonus, is commensurate with experience, skills, qualifications, education, training, and internal equity. While we anticipate the selected candidate for this position will fall towards the middle or entry point of the compensation range, the decision will be made on a case-by-case basis.

PGE believes in rewarding dedicated performance. We provide a total rewards package that is designed to reward your contributions to the company, and, at the same time, support your well-being and professional development, both now and into the future. To find out more, click here (https://portlandgeneral.com/hrcs5511) .

Join us today and power your potential!

Assisting with storms or other Company emergencies is a part of all positions at Portland General Electric.

PGE is committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace and is an equal opportunity employer. PGE will not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment based on race, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, religion, disability, protected veteran status, or other characteristics protected by law.

PGE does not discriminate on the basis of disability. We recognize individuals have a variety of abilities to offer and we believe there is much to value and celebrate by incorporating different abilities into the work we do. One very important way we live this out is in our application and interview process. We work hard to support individuals who may need an accommodation to fully participate in these processes. If you feel you may need an accommodation, or would like to request one, please notify the Talent Acquisition Specialist (Recruiter) associated with the job posting. You may also make this request by contacting talentacquisition@pgn.com or by calling 503-464-7250. The Recruiter will provide information and next steps for the accommodation process. Our Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) team is also available for support. You can contact them at dei@pgn.com .

To be considered for this position, please complete the following employment application by the posting close date. Posting closes at midnight (Pacific Time) on the closing date below. If no date is listed, job is open until filled.

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