Associate Forester
Portland General Electric · Salem, OR · 4 wk ago
AnalystFull-time
We need to output HTML fragment with sections only if real specific content. Remove boilerplate. Need to include headings: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. But only include sections that have real specific content.
Let's parse the posting.
Content:
- Intro about PGE: mission etc. Could be "About the role" maybe? Actually "About the role" could be description of role. The posting includes description of work: "At PGE, our work involves dreaming about..." That's about company. Could be "About the role" or maybe we treat as "About the role". We'll include a section with heading
About the role
and paragraph(s) summarizing that intro. - Then: "PGE is hiring two Associate Foresters, with one position based at the Sunset Operations Center and one at the Southern Operations Center in Salem." That's location info. Could be part of About the role. - Then description of duties: "Working closely with a Senior Forester, each Associate Forester will support vegetation management operations within an assigned region by responding to customer calls, creating and managing work orders in Quickbase, supporting outage investigations, and documenting findings. The role will also conduct field quality-control audits, coordinate crews completing individual assignments such as hazard-tree removal, assist with audits of larger grid-based work plans, and partner with contractors and internal teams to support the safe and timely completion of vegetation management work. Each Associate Forester will report to their assigned operations center at the beginning of the workday, pick up a company vehicle, and travel throughout the assigned region. Assigned Territories Western Region/Sunset Operations Center: Washington County, including West Portland, Gales Creek, the Highway 26 and Highway 6 corridors, and south to approximately Newberg. Southern Region/Salem Operations Center: From Newberg south to Turner, west to Grand Ronde, and east toward Scotts Mills and the Cascades." That's responsibilities. So we can haveResponsibilities
with- items.
- Then "Key Responsibilities" subheadings: Scoping, Scheduling, Vendor Management, Consultation, Coordination, Compliance. Those are more detailed responsibilities. Could be included as sub-items under Responsibilities, maybe as nested lists? But spec says use
- for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. We can have top-level list items each being a responsibility, and within them we could have sub-lists? Not prohibited but we can keep simple: each bullet as a duty.
We need to preserve all substantive information. So we need to include each bullet from those subheadings.
Let's extract:
Scoping:
- Performs safety audits.
- Conducts scoping.
- Analyzes risks and prioritizes jobs according to urgency and location.
Scheduling:
- Under direction, plans and organizes vegetation clearance activities.
- Schedules work assignments and contract crews based on manager priorities.
Vendor Management:
- Reviews contract crew performance against PGE standards and specifications.
- Monitors crew productivity to ensure PGE is receiving benefits for vegetation clearance expenditures relative to statement of work.
- Adapts tree pruning practices as needed to optimize resource use.
Consultation:
- Responds to routine and nonroutine questions from region engineering.
- Represents PGE’s Forestry department to contractors impacted by/impacting company operations in accordance with established guidelines.
- Schedules meetings to explain and resolve problems.
- Works with PGE transmission forester to coordinate herbicide applications in assigned area.
Coordination:
- Coordinates vegetation clearance with line restoration crews during emergency periods.
- Interfaces with regional line operations to determine maintenance and construction vegetation clearance needs.
- Coordinates vegetation clearance and selective herbicide applications with city, county and state agencies.
Compliance:
- Ensures work meets all applicable standards, regulations and agreements.
- Reviews new standards, regulations and agreements and identifies potential impacts.
Then "Education/Experience/Certifications" section:
Education Requires a bachelor’s degree in earth science, horticulture, geology, forestry, natural resources or similar field or equivalent experience.
Experience Typically two or more years in tree trimming, arborist work, nursery work or related field including vendor management and project management.
Certifications, Licenses and Training ISA Arborist certification required at hire. ISA Certified Utility Arborist and Oregon pesticide consultant certifications required within six months of obtaining position.
We could put these under Requirements or Qualifications. The spec says we can have sections: Requirements, Qualifications, Skills. We need to decide which to use. Probably combine education/experience under Requirements, certifications under Qualifications, and competencies under Skills.
But we must not create sections with filler text. We have real content for each.
Education/Experience/Certifications: we can split.
Requirements: Education and Experience.
Qualifications: Certifications, Licenses and Training.
Skills: Competencies (Knowledge, Skills, Abilities) includes Functional Competencies and General Competencies.
Physical and Cognitive Demands: Could be part of Requirements? Might be separate but we don't have a heading for that. Could include under Requirements as additional details.
Schedule/Attendance: There's a section "Schedule/Attendance" with details. That's specific content, so we should include a Schedule section.
Pay: There's a line: "Actual total compensation, including a performance based incentive bonus, is commensurate with experience, skills, qualifications, education, training, and internal equity." That's vague, not specific numbers. The instruction says: never emit a heading followed by filler/placeholder text (e.g. "commensurate with experience", "not specified", "N/A", "varies", "TBD") and never create Pay/Schedule/Benefits sections unless the posting actually states them. The Pay section would be filler because it's just "commensurate with experience". So we should NOT include a Pay section.
Benefits: There's a line: "PGE believes in rewarding dedicated performance. We provide a total rewards package that is designed to reward your contributions to the company, and, at the same time, support your well-being and professional development, both now and into the future. To find out more, click here." That's vague, no specific benefits. So we should NOT include Benefits section.
Schedule: we have specific schedule details: Standard schedule Monday-Friday 7:00 am to 3:30, ability to work long hours, adhere to pre-established schedule, ability to work during severe inclement weather, ability to work shift schedule, on-call schedule rotation (7 days rotation begin on Friday 3:30 pm – 7:00 am), ability to work variable schedule. That's specific enough. So we include Schedule section.
Now we need to output HTML fragment only, no /, no markdown.
We'll produce sections in logical order: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Schedule.
We need to use
for section headings. Inside each section, use
for prose,
- for lists.
We must not repeat job title as heading.
We must not include Job ID/requisition numbers.
We must remove boilerplate: cookie/navigation/legal/EEO etc. Not present.
Now craft content.
About the role: combine intro paragraphs.
Paragraph: "At PGE, our work involves dreaming about, planning for, and realizing a smarter, cleaner, more enduring Oregon neighborhood. It's 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."
Then maybe second paragraph: "PGE is hiring two Associate Foresters, with one position based at the Sunset Operations Center and one at the Southern Operations Center in Salem."
We can keep as one
with both sentences. Now Responsibilities: we need to list all duties. We could group under headings? Not required but we can just list each bullet as
- . However we have many bullets; we can keep them as flat list.
But we need to preserve all substantive information; we can include the subheadings as part of list items maybe preceded by bold? Not allowed to add extra tags besides
,
,
- ,
- . We could embed the subheading as part of the
- text. Thus each
- will contain the duty description. Let's list them: - Performs safety audits. - Conducts scoping. - Analyzes risks and prioritizes jobs according to urgency and location. - Under direction, plans and organizes vegetation clearance activities. - Schedules work assignments and contract crews based on manager priorities. - Reviews contract crew performance against PGE standards and specifications. - Monitors crew productivity to ensure PGE is receiving benefits for vegetation clearance expenditures relative to statement of work. - Adapts tree pruning practices as needed to optimize resource use. - Responds to routine and nonroutine questions from region engineering. - Represents PGE’s Forestry department to contractors impacted by/impacting company operations in accordance with established guidelines. - Schedules meetings to explain and resolve problems. - Works with PGE transmission forester to coordinate herbicide applications in assigned area. - Coordinates vegetation clearance with line restoration crews during emergency periods. - Interfaces with regional line operations to determine maintenance and construction vegetation clearance needs. - Coordinates vegetation clearance and selective herbicide applications with city, county and state agencies. - Ensures work meets all applicable standards, regulations and agreements. - Reviews new standards, regulations and agreements and identifies potential impacts. - Responds to customer calls. - Creates and manages work orders in Quickbase. - Supports outage investigations. - Documents findings. - Conducts field quality-control audits. - Coordinates crews completing individual assignments such as hazard-tree removal. - Assists with audits of larger grid-based work plans. - Partners with contractors and internal teams to support the safe and timely completion of vegetation management work. - Reports to assigned operations center at the beginning of the workday, picks up a company vehicle, and travels throughout the assigned region. - Assigned Territories Western Region/Sunset Operations Center: Washington County, including West Portland, Gales Creek, the Highway 26 and Highway 6 corridors, and south to approximately Newberg. - Southern Region/Salem Operations Center: From Newberg south to Turner, west to Grand Ronde, and east toward Scotts Mills and the Cascades. We need to ensure we didn't miss any. Now Requirements: Education and Experience. Education: "Requires a bachelor’s degree in earth science, horticulture, geology, forestry, natural resources or similar field or equivalent experience." Experience: "Typically two or more years in tree trimming, arborist work, nursery work or related field including vendor management and project management." We could also include Physical and Cognitive Demands? Might be considered requirements but we don't have a specific section for that; we could include under Requirements as additional list items. Physical and Cognitive Demands includes many items: Cognitive Level Intermediate..., Cognitive Ability..., Physical Capabilities: Position requires a valid driver's license, Driving/travel/commute..., Computer use..., Lifting..., etc. We could include them under Requirements as well, but we need to decide if they are substantive enough. They are specific. We'll include them under Requirements as list items. But we must not create a section with filler; we have real content. Thus Requirements section will have list items for education, experience, certifications? Actually certifications go to Qualifications. We'll separate. Qualifications: Certifications, Licenses and Training: "ISA Arborist certification required at hire. ISA Certified Utility Arborist and Oregon pesticide consultant certifications required within six months of obtaining position." Skills: Competencies (Knowledge, Skills, Abilities). We need to list each. Functional Competencies: - Intermediate knowledge of forestry processes and procedures. - Thorough knowledge of forestry best practices, including tree trimming and herbicide/pesticide application - Thorough knowledge of regulations impacting vegetation management - Working knowledge of vendor management principles - Intermediate skills in critical thinking, including analysis and problem solving - Working skills in using database and documentation tools General Compet
- for lists.
We must not repeat job title as heading.
We must not include Job ID/requisition numbers.
We must remove boilerplate: cookie/navigation/legal/EEO etc. Not present.
Now craft content.
About the role: combine intro paragraphs.
Paragraph: "At PGE, our work involves dreaming about, planning for, and realizing a smarter, cleaner, more enduring Oregon neighborhood. It's 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."
Then maybe second paragraph: "PGE is hiring two Associate Foresters, with one position based at the Sunset Operations Center and one at the Southern Operations Center in Salem."
We can keep as one
- for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. We can have top-level list items each being a responsibility, and within them we could have sub-lists? Not prohibited but we can keep simple: each bullet as a duty.
We need to preserve all substantive information. So we need to include each bullet from those subheadings.
Let's extract:
Scoping:
- Performs safety audits.
- Conducts scoping.
- Analyzes risks and prioritizes jobs according to urgency and location.
Scheduling:
- Under direction, plans and organizes vegetation clearance activities.
- Schedules work assignments and contract crews based on manager priorities.
Vendor Management:
- Reviews contract crew performance against PGE standards and specifications.
- Monitors crew productivity to ensure PGE is receiving benefits for vegetation clearance expenditures relative to statement of work.
- Adapts tree pruning practices as needed to optimize resource use.
Consultation:
- Responds to routine and nonroutine questions from region engineering.
- Represents PGE’s Forestry department to contractors impacted by/impacting company operations in accordance with established guidelines.
- Schedules meetings to explain and resolve problems.
- Works with PGE transmission forester to coordinate herbicide applications in assigned area.
Coordination:
- Coordinates vegetation clearance with line restoration crews during emergency periods.
- Interfaces with regional line operations to determine maintenance and construction vegetation clearance needs.
- Coordinates vegetation clearance and selective herbicide applications with city, county and state agencies.
Compliance:
- Ensures work meets all applicable standards, regulations and agreements.
- Reviews new standards, regulations and agreements and identifies potential impacts.
Then "Education/Experience/Certifications" section:
Education Requires a bachelor’s degree in earth science, horticulture, geology, forestry, natural resources or similar field or equivalent experience.
Experience Typically two or more years in tree trimming, arborist work, nursery work or related field including vendor management and project management.
Certifications, Licenses and Training ISA Arborist certification required at hire. ISA Certified Utility Arborist and Oregon pesticide consultant certifications required within six months of obtaining position.
We could put these under Requirements or Qualifications. The spec says we can have sections: Requirements, Qualifications, Skills. We need to decide which to use. Probably combine education/experience under Requirements, certifications under Qualifications, and competencies under Skills.
But we must not create sections with filler text. We have real content for each.
Education/Experience/Certifications: we can split.
Requirements: Education and Experience.
Qualifications: Certifications, Licenses and Training.
Skills: Competencies (Knowledge, Skills, Abilities) includes Functional Competencies and General Competencies.
Physical and Cognitive Demands: Could be part of Requirements? Might be separate but we don't have a heading for that. Could include under Requirements as additional details.
Schedule/Attendance: There's a section "Schedule/Attendance" with details. That's specific content, so we should include a Schedule section.
Pay: There's a line: "Actual total compensation, including a performance based incentive bonus, is commensurate with experience, skills, qualifications, education, training, and internal equity." That's vague, not specific numbers. The instruction says: never emit a heading followed by filler/placeholder text (e.g. "commensurate with experience", "not specified", "N/A", "varies", "TBD") and never create Pay/Schedule/Benefits sections unless the posting actually states them. The Pay section would be filler because it's just "commensurate with experience". So we should NOT include a Pay section.
Benefits: There's a line: "PGE believes in rewarding dedicated performance. We provide a total rewards package that is designed to reward your contributions to the company, and, at the same time, support your well-being and professional development, both now and into the future. To find out more, click here." That's vague, no specific benefits. So we should NOT include Benefits section.
Schedule: we have specific schedule details: Standard schedule Monday-Friday 7:00 am to 3:30, ability to work long hours, adhere to pre-established schedule, ability to work during severe inclement weather, ability to work shift schedule, on-call schedule rotation (7 days rotation begin on Friday 3:30 pm – 7:00 am), ability to work variable schedule. That's specific enough. So we include Schedule section.
Now we need to output HTML fragment only, no /, no markdown.
We'll produce sections in logical order: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Schedule.
We need to use