Find Your Place at OPPD.
Whether you’re early in your career, switching paths or bringing deep expertise, there’s room here to do work that matters. We hire across many disciplines — and each role helps power our community to meet its fullest potential.
Skilled Trades
Help build and maintain the systems that keep energy flowing safely and reliably — in the field and behind the scenes.
Disciplines You'll See Here & Work You Might Do
Transmission & Distribution (T&D)
- Line Technicians: Keep power flowing by building and repairing overhead and underground lines. You’re the one customers count on — especially when storms hit.
- Cable Splicers (Underground): Work below ground to install and repair critical cables. Your precision keeps the grid reliable in our busiest neighborhoods.
- Substation Electricians: Maintain the high‑voltage equipment that stabilizes our entire system. Your expertise keeps outages rare and recovery fast.
- Relay / Protection & Control Technicians: Test and maintain the systems that protect the grid. You help catch issues early and keep customers connected.
- Meter Technicians: Install and maintain meters for homes and businesses. You ensure accuracy, safety and a positive customer experience.
Power Generation & Plant Operations (Coal, natural gas & peaking stations)
- Control Room Operators: Monitor and control plant systems to match community demand. You ensure reliable, safe, around‑the‑clock power.
- Turbine Technicians: Maintain turbines — the core of our generating stations. Your work keeps energy production smooth and efficient.
- Instrument & Control (I&C) Technicians: Keep plant instruments and controls precise. You support safe operations through accurate readings and reliable automation.
- Electrical & Mechanical Maintenance Technicians: Maintain motors, pumps, switches and plant machinery. Your problem‑solving prevents downtime and supports safe operations.
- Steamfitters: Install and maintain high‑pressure piping systems. Your craftsmanship helps keep plant operations dependable.
- Heavy Equipment Operators: Operate loaders, dozers, cranes and other machinery that support plant work. You keep operations moving safely.
- Fuel Handling Operators: Manage the equipment that transports and stores fuel. You ensure a steady supply to keep generation running.
Fleet, Facilities & Field Support
- Fleet Mechanics / Diesel Mechanics: Service and repair the trucks and equipment our crews rely on. You keep the fleet safe, ready and mission‑ready.
- Machinists: Craft and repair precision parts for field and plant equipment. You help extend equipment life and solve technical challenges.
- Facilities Maintenance Technicians: Maintain the buildings and systems that support our teams. You keep workplaces safe, functional and ready every day.
- Warehouse & Materials Handling Technicians: Organize and deliver the tools and parts crews need. You make sure field teams and plants have the right materials on time.
Engineering
Design, optimize and safeguard the infrastructure that lights our community — from substations and transmission to plant operations and protection systems.
Disciplines You'll See Here & Work You Might Do
- Electrical & Computer Engineering (ECE): Power the grid. From substations and transmission lines to protection systems, controls, automation and grid‑modeling tools, ECEs play a critical role across nearly every engineering team. (Most common in: Distribution Engineering, Transmission Engineering, Generation Engineering, Substation Engineering, Protection & Automation Engineering, EMS, ADMS, Asset Management, Distribution Planning, Transmission Planning, Distribution Operations, Transmission Operations and Power Quality)
- Mechanical Engineering (ME): Optimize equipment and systems. MEs support power plant performance, rotating equipment, piping systems, mechanical reliability and major capital upgrades. (Most common in: Distribution Engineering, Generation Engineering and Asset Management Design Engineering – Generation)
- Civil Engineering: Shape the infrastructure energy runs through — from transmission structures and underground systems to foundations, site design and system relocations. (Most common in: Substation Engineering, Design Engineering – Generation, Transmission Engineering and Distribution Engineering)
- Structural Engineering: Design safe, resilient structures that support OPPD’s transmission lines, substations and major facility upgrades. (Most common in: Substation Engineering, Design Engineering – Generation, Transmission Engineering and Distribution Engineering)
- Asset Management & Maintenance (Energy Delivery): Use inspection data and risk analysis to guide replacement, reliability and reinvestment across the T&D system — influencing decisions that keep power flowing.
- Asset Management (Generation): Assess asset health and performance across OPPD’s plants. Use data, inspections and predictive tools — like drones and vibration analysis — to guide smart investment and maintenance strategies.
- Design Engineering (Generation): Design and manage capital projects for fossil generation. Your work is built, installed and directly shapes plant performance and reliability.
- Distributed Device Strategy (Grid Automation): Deploy automation, sensors and communication‑enabled devices that make the grid smarter and more resilient.
- Distribution Engineering (Customer): Design electrical systems for new neighborhoods, commercial projects and major developments including large corporate campuses and city infrastructure.
- Distribution Engineering (System Improvement): Design upgrades, relocations and system enhancements driven by roadwork, planning and reliability needs — collaborating widely across internal teams.
- Distribution Planning: Model the distribution system, forecast growth and plan for future load needs using tools like Synergi and LoadSEER — ensuring safe, flexible and long‑term reliability.
- Distribution Protection & Automation: Coordinate protection systems, reclosers, sensors and customer‑owned generation integrations to keep circuits safe and stable.
- EMS Operations: Support and enhance the EMS/SCADA systems operators rely on. Develop models, analytics and OT solutions that maintain real‑time grid reliability.
- Power Generation Engineering: Provide technical leadership for plant equipment, troubleshooting, performance analysis and system reliability — with hands‑on variety daily.
- Power Quality: Investigate and resolve customer‑experienced voltage or quality issues by analyzing data, working with crews and finding root causes.
- Substation Engineering: Design new substations and upgrades, ensuring safe, reliable power flow between transmission and distribution systems.
- Transmission Engineering: Design high‑voltage lines, structures and foundations using tools like PLS‑CADD — ensuring compliance, safety and long‑range performance.
- Transmission Operations: Perform studies, outage planning and real‑time technical support to keep the transmission system reliable and compliant.
- Transmission Planning: Build and analyze models of the entire transmission network and plan system expansions — supporting over $1B in future transmission investment.
- Protection & Automation Engineering (PAE): Design and support relay and automation systems inside substations and plants, ensuring fast, reliable protection for critical infrastructure.
- ADMS OT Applications: Maintain and enhance OPPD’s Advanced Distribution Management System and Outage Management System — enabling modern, real‑time control and grid visibility.
Technology & Security
Advance the tools and systems that keep our grid smart, reliable and secure. You’ll work across data, applications, cybersecurity and operational tech to strengthen resilience and support real-time decision-making.
Disciplines You'll See Here
- Electrical & Computer Engineering
- Computer Science
- Cybersecurity
- Software Engineering
- Data/Systems Engineering
Work You Might Do
- Strengthen cybersecurity by monitoring and securing OT/IT networked systems.
- Develop and support applications that help teams make real-time decisions.
- Enhance SCADA/EMS/ADMS tools for grid operations and outage response.
- Build analytics, dashboards and models that support system visibility.
- Integrate field devices, sensors and automation into operational systems
Customer & Community
Be the face of OPPD through neighborly, plainspoken service. Help customers navigate billing, programs and energy choices with care and clarity.
Disciplines You'll See Here
- Business
- Communications
- Customer Experience
- Data Analytics
- Engineering (for energy advisors)
What You Might Do
- Support customers with billing questions, service options and energy programs.
- Provide guidance on rate plans, usage trends and efficiency choices.
- Assist with service requests and coordinate with field crews when needed.
- Communicate plainly and compassionately to build trust and clarity.
- Work with community partners during events, outreach and education efforts.
Corporate & Support Teams
From Human Capital to Finance and Corporate Strategy, these teams guide the people, processes and resources that support our mission.
Disciplines You'll See Here
- Human Capital
- Finance
- Accounting
- Business
- Legal & Compliance
- Communications
- Supply Chain
- Safety
- Strategy & Planning
What You Might Do
- Recruit, develop and support the people behind the power.
- Manage budgets, financial planning and business performance.
- Support enterprise strategy, regulatory requirements and compliance.
- Communicate clearly across teams and to the community.
- Ensure timely purchasing, contracts, materials and safe operations.
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