Work here
Careers
1,140 people run the station and the loop: operators, technicians, engineers, line workers, chemists, biologists, dispatchers, security officers and the people who keep them fed and paid. Most of them live within half an hour of the bluff, and a good many grew up here.
Why here
Serious work, a small town, the sea
The work is demanding and it matters: a reactor operator's license takes two years of classes, simulator weeks and examinations to earn and a week in six in the simulator to keep; a line worker's apprenticeship takes four years; a radiation protection technician is trusted with other people's safety every shift. The station pays for the training, pays well while you do it, and promotes from inside. Most of the leadership team came up through the control rooms, the shops or the yards.
The town is small and the coast is wild. People here fish the harbor, hunt mushrooms in the autumn rains, walk Humbug Mountain before work and watch the whales from the bluff at lunch. Houses cost less than in the valley, the schools are small, and the station is the reason the clinic, the library and the harbor's ice plant are as good as they are.
What we offer
- Pay at the top of the coast's scale, with shift and storm premiums
- Health, dental and vision cover for you and your family from the first day
- A pension and a matched savings plan
- Training paid for, licensed or not, and tuition for degrees that help the work
- A relocation allowance for anyone moving to the South Coast
- Five weeks of leave in the first year, more after
Openings
Posted now
Every opening is filled from this list and from inside. There is no agency and there is no fee.
Reactor Operator (licensed)
Unit 1 and Unit 2 control rooms
Shift, full time
ApplyInstrumentation & Controls Technician
I&C shop, the station
Days, full time
ApplyRadiation Protection Technician
Radiation protection, the station
Shift, full time
ApplyChemistry Technician
Chemistry lab, the station
Shift, full time
ApplyJourney-level Line Worker
Gold Beach and Bandon yards
Days with storm call-out, full time
ApplyLine Apprentice (next class)
Langlois yard, then rotating
Four years, paid from the first day
ApplySecurity Officer
The protected area, the station
Shift, full time
ApplyEnvironmental Scientist, estuary program
Environmental programs, the station
Days, full time
ApplyVisitor Center Guide (seasonal)
The visitor center
Part time, spring to autumn
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Apprenticeship
Four years to journey-level line worker
The line apprenticeship is run with the community college and pays from the first day. Apprentices spend their first year in the Langlois yard, beside the station's training field, before rotating through Port Orford, Bandon and Gold Beach; classes are one week in eight at the college and the rest is on the poles with a journey-level worker. Six apprentices finished this year, the largest class the program has graduated. The next class opens for applications in the autumn; a driver's licence, a high school diploma and a head for heights are the requirements, and the station teaches the rest.
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Start here
Come and look first.
The visitor center is open Wednesday to Sunday, and a plant tour is the best interview preparation there is.