Seeking an Electrical Engineer to primarily provide Power Distribution and electrical safety leadership. Experience with PLCs, electrical drives, and instrumentation is highly valued. The role involves continuous improvement efforts with a technical team and offers the opportunity to contribute to plant reliability at a site with a mix of modern and 1950s electrical infrastructure.
Responsibilities:
- Provide power distribution engineering support for all manufacturing aspects, including medium and low voltage.
- Maintain and develop electrical standards for the site.
- Lead efforts to uphold electrical safety culture.
- Interface with the local utility company regarding high voltage sources.
- Troubleshoot controls issues with operations and the electrical team.
- Evaluate substation and motor control center infrastructure, maintaining a 5-year strategy for upgrades.
- Provide electrical design support for site capital improvement projects, ensuring compliance with local and national standards.
- Potentially expand the role to include design for large capital jobs.
- Guide reliability programs for electrical equipment and develop specific work and preventative maintenance procedures.
- Finalize and maintain arc flash settings using software.
- Implement and maintain coordination settings for 480V substations to the load.
- Lead failure analysis efforts related to site power distribution.
- Interpret and utilize NEC, local electrical codes, and NFPA codes as appropriate.
Job Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering.
- 3-5 years of plant manufacturing experience.
- Working knowledge of E&I drawings including electrical schematics, logic diagrams, and P&I diagrams.
- Ability to troubleshoot power distribution issues using drawings, diagnostic data, and field observations.
- Ability to size electrical installations and specify equipment for site upgrades and changes.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Demonstrated ability to perform electrical work safely and effectively in an industrial environment.
- Working knowledge of PLC and single loop controllers.
- Understanding of Safety and process interlocks, PFD calculations.
- Knowledge of electrical standards and Process Safety Management (PSM) procedures.
- Strong written, oral communication, and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to work independently and collaborate with others, including operators, mechanics, engineers, and management.
- Ability to mentor the site electrical team.
- Support substation diagnostics.
- Working knowledge of electrical systems with B-phase grounded and high resistance ground systems in service.
