ENGINEER, ELECTRICAL RELIABILITY

Founded in 1886, Buckeye Partners, L.P. has a proven track record of stability and success. We pride ourselves on the laser focus we apply to safely providing service and value to our customers, operating under a strong set of values, and empowering our employees to make decisions. We have a tenacious commitment to environmental responsibility and Regulatory compliance in all that we do.

It is our internal culture that sets us apart from other companies. Our goal is to provide our employees with a greater span of responsibility, the ability to make decisions, and access to experts to help you build your skills and experiences. Each of our career tracks provides employees with the ability to innovate and be a significant contributor from their first day on the job.

Buckeye Partners is currently seeking an Sr. Engineer, Electrical Reliability with experience in design engineering in the pipeline and terminals business, chemicals industry, or other process industries to join our growing team!

Role Summary: The Sr. Engineer, Electrical Reliability role is an intermediate-level Engineer role responsible for supporting electrical & instrumentation engineering standards as well as working to continuously improve the technical content of our bids, estimates, project construction packages, and maintenance programs. Responsibilities & Essential Functions include:

• Evaluate system and component performance in their application.

• Responsible for ensuring projects are compliant with all environmental and safety

requirements.

• Lead small capital reliability improvement projects from start to finish.

• Develop QA/QC for critical electrical work.

• Conducts electrical gap assessments primarily through periodic audits to gauge

effectiveness of maintenance and reliability work processes.

• Identify reliability opportunities, design improvements, and oversee implementation in

coordination with Operations & Maintenance personnel.

• Perform Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) reviews of critical or unreliable

equipment.

• Review Management of Change (MOC)’s and capital projects for reliability improvement opportunities.

• Performs Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF), Failure Modes Effects Analyses (FMEA) of electrical components.

• Promote an atmosphere of safety excellence through leading by example and

interceding when necessary to correct behaviors.

• Ensure that new electrical equipment is designed and installed for long term reliability.

Operations Support.

 Provide response to field operations requests for technical assistance and guidance on application of electrical equipment in compliance with established company standards.

 Develop Programs/Projects. Create/maintain electrical reliability programs. Types of designs include electrical power load studies, equipment coordination studies/circuit over-current protection, Arc Flash safety studies, grounding systems design and specification, lighting systems design and specification, communication systems.

Design Review. Conduct thorough design reviews and provide work instructions to designers and external design contractors relating to project design packages.

Engineering Standards. Produce, monitor, and improve engineering standards, recommended practices, standard designs, and specifications that form part of the company's design library. 

Facility Assessments. Perform site visits to assess current electrical install base, improve facility documentation, and help prepare scope of work information for maintenance capital improvement projects.

Position Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering or related field required.

• 15 years’ experience as a working reliability/design engineer in the refining business, chemicals industry, other process industry, or with an engineering firm serving these industries.

• Up to 10% travel

Other Skills, Attributes and Abilities:

• Excellent communication, both written and verbal, as well as strong organizational skills

are paramount.

• In order to be successful in this position, one must have excellent analytical skills to resolve business and operations problems and have good communication skills to consult with users to provide technical assistance.

• Skillful in Microsoft Office suite of software, AutoCAD, engineering, and design software packages.

Essential Functions:

• This position requires the ability to safely and successfully perform essential job functions consistent with ADA, FMLA and other federal, state, and local standards, including meeting qualitative and or/quantitative productivity standards.

• This role requires the ability to maintain regular, punctual attendance consistent with the ADA, FMLA and other federal, state, and local standards.

• This position requires compliance with all personnel policies.

Physical & Safety Requirements:

• This role is regularly exposed to outside weather conditions. (NOTE: Only on an as needed basis, site walk downs and other in field activities but for shorter duration events)

• Must be able and willing to spend on average 10% of ones time on his/her feet

• The person in this position needs to occasionally move inside the office to access filing

cabinets, office equipment, etc.

• This role continuously operates a computer and other office productivity equipment (i.e.,

a calculator, copy machine and computer printer).

• The incumbent in this role must wear Fire Retardant Clothing (FRC) and/or Personal

Protective Equipment (PPE).

• The employee is frequently required to effectively communicate with others.

• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color

vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus.

• This position is subject to DOT drug and alcohol regulations.

About You:

To be successful in the Buckeye culture, our employees must possess a demonstrated commitment to environmental responsibility and regulatory compliance. Excellent

Communication, written and verbal, as well as strong organizational skills are paramount. You must work independently and be able to exercise tact, discretion, and professionalism when dealing with internal and external customers, and handling sensitive and confidential information.

Buckeye Partners wants to create and reward an organizational focus that stimulates the creative and entrepreneurial actions of its employees that result in innovative ways of reducing costs, generating revenues, improving productivity, or improving processes.

About Us:

Buckeye Partners, L.P. is the logistical solutions partner of choice for the global energy business and one of the nation’s largest independent petroleum products pipeline transportation and terminaling service provider; our strength is to create centers of expertise around our products, technologies, and client needs.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. We are also an equal opportunity employer of individuals with disabilities and protected veterans.

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