Meteorologist

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. **Meteorologist** Portland General Electric is seeking a meteorologist with skills in operational and fire weather forecasting, as well as data science. The primary responsibility will be to create a daily forecast to and provide briefings to keep operations and emergency management informed of potentially impactful weather including wind, ice, snow, and fire. The candidate must have expertise in forecasting critical fire weather patterns that lead to high fire danger. The successful candidate will also produce seasonal weather outlooks, lead or support the development of predictive models, and support the development of tools, dashboards, and other forecast products to advance forecasting and fire environment analysis. This position will also serve on the PGE incident management team when the Emergency Operations Center is activated supporting situational awareness and incident response operations , including public safety power shutoffs to mitigate the risk of wildfires. **Primary Job Responsibilities:** * Interpret meteorological data and forecasts to produce a daily impacts-based forecast and briefing for operations * With a strong understanding of both probabilistic and deterministic modeling, work collaboratively with meteorologists, data scientists and risk modeling team to support development of predictive modeling for outage and ignition probability. * Advance the development of meteorological tools for fire environment analysis * Develop and mainta