Senior Electrical Engineer

Role Overview

• The position provides technical expertise and leadership to implement and execute asset integrity strategies at one of the operating sites within the North America Business.
• The position will work closely with a team of Operations, Maintenance, and Reliability personnel to monitor asset reliability results and address issues hindering reliability.
• Provide electrical engineering, reliability, and process subject matter expertise to a team of peers developing and deploying reliability improvements.
• Responsible SME for electrical infrastructure equipment, including protection and controls, ranging from final utilization voltage (480V) to high voltage (69kV) and may include standby generation (<3MW) and steam turbine generators (<68MW) depending on site.
• Coordinate power system study activities.
• Complete minor updates to power system models.
• Identify deficiencies in maintenance processes and develop sustainable improvement.
• Apply and optimize PM / PdM activities to drive improvement in asset mean time between failures.
• Provide prioritized asset assessments that support the 5-year capital planning process.
• Track site specific downtime to identify reliability improvement opportunities and utilize Root Cause Analysis processes to review failures and identify corrective actions to prevent re-occurrence.
• Provide trouble shooting support to maintenance and operations process knowledge required for effective problem solving.
• Collaborate with maintenance planning teams to develop key field service maintenance scopes for regular maintenance, and annual turnarounds and peers to develop asset strategies, pursue consistency between sites and share best practices/experiences.
• Deploy and execute on asset strategies and monitor results to continually refine and improve asset health management.
• Assist with supervision of field service contractors.
• Interpretate test results and ensure follow up actions are tracked and completed.
• Conduct audits and inspections.
• Review and authorize work permits; development of lock-out-tag-out plans.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree required, major in Electrical Engineering
• 8+ years Electrical Engineering Experience required
• Excellent written and communication skills and ability to interface with all levels of management
• Must demonstrate ability to influence others; requires strong leadership qualities, and team building
• Working familiarity with RCM and FMEA
• Experience with operation and maintenance of high voltage switchgear (gas, air, and metal-enclosed), transformers (oil-filled and dry-type), and other industrial electrical infrastructure is an asset
• Working knowledge of power system protection and coordination. Protection and coordination with SEL and/or GE relaying and SCADA is an asset.
• Control system knowledge.
• Experience with Rockwell, GE, or ABB PLC’s and/or Delta-V, ABB 800xA, or Yokogawa DCS is an asset.
• Knowledge and experience with instrumentation is an asset.
• Experience with field instrumentation, PLC and DCS control systems, project management and related programming will be an asset.

Benefits

• A competitive base salary + bonus incentives
• 11 paid holidays each year
• A generous 401k with a company match and annual company contributions
• Paid sick leave
• Paid vacation time
• A robust benefits package which includes Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance, life & disability
• Tuition reimbursement