Position Title: Reliability Electrical Engineer

Reports to: Maintenance Manager

Position Classification: Client Contractor

Duration: 6 months - 1 year (direct hire opportunity)

FLSA Status: Exempt

Location: Texas City, TX

Work Schedule: Monday - Friday (40 hours)

Core Job Responsibilities

• Participating as integral part of Texas City Maintenance Team while supporting plant operation, reliability improvement, and reliability projects across the facility
• Working in a team environment, by implementing reliability best practices, developing, and optimizing preventive maintenance tasks, implementing reliability improvement projects, and supporting maintenance and turnaround activities
• Interacting with other technical groups on site (process engineering, maintenance, and capital project), corporate technical networks and peers, and vendors/suppliers as needed to resolve problems and improve plant reliability and performance.
• Applying data analysis techniques to develop engineering solutions to repetitive failures and other problems that adversely affect plant operations including capacity, quality, cost, safety, environmental, and regulatory compliance issues.
• Providing instrumentation and electrical technical support/expertise in design and installation stages of projects for new assets and modification of existing assets to minimize life cycle cost and maximize asset availability.
• Overseeing Instrument & Electrical maintenance programs, calibrations, and repairs required for plant instrumentation, analyzers, distributed control systems, safety instrumented systems, and electrical equipment related to process controls and environmental monitoring.
• Participating in the development of design and installation specifications, acceptance tests, inspection criteria, and commissioning plans for new equipment
• Maintaining awareness of emerging technology, assessing applicability to improve reliability and performance, or to reduce maintenance cost.
• Leading and participating in incident investigations and root cause analysis.
• Managing risk to the achievement of an organization's strategic objectives in the areas of environmental health and safety, asset capability, quality, and production.
• Applying principles to systematically define, design, develop, monitor, and refine an asset maintenance plan including:
  • Value-added preventive maintenance tasks.
  • Effective utilization of predictive, condition based, and other non-destructive testing methodologies designed to identify and isolate inherent reliability problems.
  • Life cycle value analysis to repair/replace/redesign decisions in the instrument and electrical arena.
  • Interdisciplinary reliability improvement teamwork to guide efforts to ensure reliability and maintainability of equipment and process systems.
  • Technical support for production, maintenance, project, and process engineering groups.
  • Texas City I/E representation for providing input to the improvement of instrumentation related standards, procedures, guidelines, and corporate initiatives.
  • Business drivers understanding and applications, management of change requirements, reliability processes, and maintenance workflow.
  • Failure Mode and Effects Analysis.

Essential Skills & Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering or related discipline with 5 years’ experience in the design, maintenance and testing of high voltage power systems in a manufacturing or chemical environment.
• OR 10 years’ experience in the design, maintenance and testing of high voltage power systems in a manufacturing or chemical environment.
• High level of mechanical aptitude, effective communication skills, strong supervisor skills, computer/systems competency, along with capability and willingness to work outside normal hours, including weekends, and holidays, as may be required due to the needs of business.
• Ability to respond appropriately during site emergencies as directed by the Site Emergency Manager.
• Ability to wear and properly utilize appropriate personal protective equipment if required to work or visit within the manufacturing process area. This may include hard hat, safety glasses, respirators, ear plugs, steel-toed shoes, or other equipment as required by the work performed and location the work is being performed.
• Capability to lift heavy plant equipment, climb, squat and move quickly as dictated by a high paced, high-pressured work environment, and be able enter “Confined Spaces” when required.
• Possess a valid driver’s license to operate plant vehicles.
• Must be eligible to work in the United States.

Physical Requirements

• Occasionally lift objects weighing up to 25 pounds
• Sit for long periods of time
• Occasionally stoop, kneel or crouch
• Use hands and arms to reach for, grasp and manipulate objects

Environment: Working conditions encountered in this job include those found in a typical office setting as well as an indoor/outdoor chemical plant setting which includes exposure to outside weather conditions, work at elevated heights, climbing of stairs and ladders, and physical manipulation of tools and mechanical equipment. This job demands the use of typical manufacturing personal protective equipment as well as advanced protective equipment as needed.