Portland General Electric reviews

Overall, a great place to work. Excellent core values but sometimes clumsy in working with them from location to location. Very customer focused in most work groups, environmentally sensitive mostly (as much as one could expect a carbon producing Utility to be), quite innovating in some areas, and embraces socially active role in the community. Historically long employee tenure created a strong and positive family culture but that is beginning to fade somewhat with high levels or retirement, new younger employees, and intentional management towards a more nimble, competitive, and productive work force. For the highly motivated, hardworking and/or politically astute there is opportunity to grow but one usually must be very patient and have a plan for growth the receive some personal management attention, as objective metrics on individual performance has not typically been handled well. Culture is divided. Line and field operations are highly unionized and promotions there have more to do with ones time in service than individual performance. And the culture can be found to be harsh for some newbies or people unfamiliar with the dominate culture, but after some friendly ribbing or initiation time one should earn the proper respect find themselves in a comfortable and friendly work environment or crew. For the office there is another culture as it is non-union. The environment is generally very friendly and polite, after all, one will have to work with peers for a long time and a reputation can follow you. As a result there is not much direct confrontation on issues.

Dynamic project portfolio with many new projects in renewable energy/storage. Great atmosphere, always learning and lots of growth potential. Construction Management team with lots of experience and solid teamwork culture