What are the responsibilities and job description for the ELECTRICAL ENGINEER position at Pilkington North America Inc.?
The Electrical Engineer is responsible for ensuring the reliability, safety, and efficiency of the plant’s electrical power distribution systems. This role focuses on troubleshooting, maintaining, and improving electrical infrastructure to support continuous manufacturing operations. The position drives process and equipment improvements, minimizes downtime, and enhances safety, quality, and energy performance through engineering solutions, cross-functional collaboration, and continuous improvement initiatives.
Essential Functions:
- Responsible for reporting all plant outages, upsets, and emergencies.
- To instigate studies and engineer solutions to overcome quality and safety problems, to reduce waste and improve overall performance
- Assist in the development of new products, processes, or systems as related to electrical distribution or infrastructure.
- Assists in the design, installation and commissioning of new plant equipment and other systems to ensure that this introduction to the production facility is handled efficiently and within the minimum disruption.
- Investigate and analyze machinery downtime and engineer solutions or corrective actions to eliminate future re-occurrence.
- Coordinate maintenance of plant electrical power systems and distribution.
- Champion site energy savings tracking, reporting, & project implementation
- Work together with team members, driving continuous improvement processes.
- Drives quality continuous improvements coordinating corrective actions as necessary
- Train team members in standard operating procedures (SOP) and ensure regular audits for the maintenance of such procedures
- Identify and update spare part inventory to eliminate downtime due to lack of spares
- Oversee outside contractors and vendors as needed.
- Adherence to NSG/Pilkington Standards of Business Conduct and its Values and Principles
- Other duties as assigned by manager
Scope/Dimensions:
- Direct, coordinate, and supervise all functions of the shift
- Work on continuous improvement of float glass manufacturing
Top 3 Competencies Needed for Success in the Role
- Safety and Quality focus
- Empowers and Develops
- Innovation and Change
Qualifications Required:
- 4-year degree in Electrical Engineering
- Minimum of 5-7 years’ experience in manufacturing environment
- Computer aided design, preferable AutoCad
- Demonstrated ability in solving technical problems related to manufacturing processes
- Excellent communication skills
- Posses strong interpersonal skills
- Effective communicator
- Demonstrated ability to prioritize and organize objectives and targets to meet deadlines
- Strong computer skills
Qualifications Desired:
- BA/BS degree
- Six Sigma certification
- Previous glass experience
- Engineering/Manufacturing experience
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Salary : $70,570 - $101,540