Role: Permit Coordinator
Duration: 12 Months (Contract)
Location: Wilsonville, OR (On-Site – 7:00 AM to 3:30 PM)

Key Skills:

Utility Permitting & Regulatory Compliance: Deep knowledge of local laws regarding utility construction, right-of-way, and environmental or municipal permits.
Electrical Distribution Systems: Understanding construction processes, design sketches, and how power grid infrastructure operates.
Project Coordination & Leadership: Managing timelines, assigning tasks to team members, and ensuring permit approvals align with construction schedules.
Outage Risk Management: Analyzing how planned power outages impact customers and coordinating multi-department communications to mitigate risks.
Process Improvement: Documenting workflow steps, identifying bottlenecks, and designing new processes to increase efficiency.

Top 3 Must-Haves (Hard and/or Soft Skills):

Exetremely detail oriented, organized and focuesed
Clear communicator, great grammer (email, phone calls, etc.)
Must be comfortable with technology - this is fully a computer role, and on average will use between 10-15 different applications throughout the day to be successful the WO creation task.

Top 3 Nice-To-Haves (Hard and/or Soft Skills):

Criticial thinker - present opportunities for process improvements
Fast learner and fast processor - seeker of additional taks/responsibilities
Dependable - a lot of work to process, attendance is crucial for us to stay on top of workload

Job description:

Requires expertise in a variety of work processes through a combination of job-related training and considerable on-the-job experience
Typically acts as a lead, coordinating the work of others, but not a supervisor
Works autonomously within established procedures and practices
May assign permitting tasks to other team members. Analyzes permitting requirements for complex jobs. Determines permitting required and coordinates permitting process, ensuring timing meets business objectives. Collaborates with others to schedule work to ensure permits are complete.
Monitors permitting process and troubleshoots and resolves issues.
Creates and sends notifications to meet regulatory requirements.
Identifies impact of planned outages on customers. Performs quality control on list of customers for outages and notify other departments of potential risks.
Creates, updates and monitors design work orders in accordance with established procedures. Resolves or escalates potential issues.
Designs new processes. Develops and maintains documented processes and implements process improvements
Serves as a subject matter expert to other employees. May provide training, coaching and feedback.

Job Competencies:

Intermediate knowledge of the electrical distribution system
Advanced knowledge of the systems used in the department
Intermediate knowledge of distribution construction processes and procedures
Working skills in interpreting design sketches
Advanced knowledge of permitting laws and regulations as they relate to utility operations
Basic knowledge of right of way
Working skills in process improvement
Intermediate skills in customer focus
Intermediate skills in prioritization and organization
Intermediate skills in communication
Consistent use of relevant principles to solve practical problems and to deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists.

Job Requirements:

Email resumes to usjobs@mavensoft.com to apply!