Interdisciplinary Engineer

Job Title

As an Electrical or Electronic Engineer, you will:

• Serve as an expert consultant on matters within the Outdoor High Voltage or Indoor Low Voltage electrical substation design disciplines
• Determine project needs from customer requirements; performance standards; project scope and preliminary engineering documents; and technical studies
• Ensure project scope captures all project-enabling components for the design deliverables such that engineered solutions minimize complications or impediments identified for the construction phase
• Assure scope refinement includes consultation with associated stakeholders and end users
• Work within the guidelines of established project development and execution processes to move projects through stage gates and obtain timely delivery of design packages against target dates
• Provide quality assurance (QA) by developing a design plan and requirements, such as facilitating a statement of work, for the design elements that will fully inform the design process on functionality and quality requirements
• Provide quality control (QC) through technical review and checks of project description documents and design package components prepared by engineers, technicians, and contractors to ensure accuracy, adequacy, and conformance to BPA's requirements and design parameters
• Collect, analyze, and summarize information and trends to recommend actions
• Exercise judgment and ingenuity in evaluating the value and applicability of new or improved technology, strategies, trends, or applications; investigating, predicting, and anticipating issues and conditions extending beyond a single specialty area, and affecting known standards, approaches, precedents, or concepts; developing or collaborating in the formulation of new standards, applications, concepts, or theories changing existing knowledge and extending an understanding of phenomena