Electrical/I&C Engineer
Primary Responsibilities:
Serve as the Electrical/I&C Subject Matter Expert (SME) for North American facilities, providing operational oversight and troubleshooting assistance to increase reliability. Reporting to the maintenance team, support management and operations personnel in this effort.
Support the maintenance team in management, supervision, and oversight of the plant control system, including all field instruments, low voltage systems, HMI’s, instrument panels, DCS hardware and programming, data integrity, and plant data historian.
Actively manage and provide technical supervision and oversight for outage related activities, off-site repair activities at facilities, and off-site repair activities at vendor facilities.
Provide field service support and technical oversight to the onsite Electrical/I&C technicians and management.
Oversee the work of any contractors or outside consultants working on the control system.
Provide controls support for Shift Supervisors and Production Managers including loop tuning, graphical trend generation and training on the control system.
Support the writing, review, and training of all preventative and predictive maintenance programs, policies, and procedures.
Lead any modifications to the DCS software including edits, updates, backups, uploads, and integrity of all plant logic code and configurations.
Create, write procedures for, and manage change logs for plant logic scripts, configurations, and code.
Conduct factory acceptance testing for electrical components/systems on an as-needed basis.
Lead the purchasing of electrical components/systems and materials for maintenance projects, including request for proposals, reviewing bids, equipment supplier engineering deliverables and shop fabrication drawings.
Collaborating with management, business, and engineering teams, industry SME’s and Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEM’s), develop and implement continuous improvement standards related to equipment operation and design to increase reliability. Lead the distribution and implementation of these standards for the North American fleet.
Qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering is required.
Minimum 5 years' instrumentation and controls experience in an industrial facility or operating environment. 10 years’ experience is highly preferred.
A strong technical background in electrical engineering and working knowledge of applicable codes, standards and best practices.
Knowledge and design execution experience in controls philosophy, interlocks, system integration, process and instrumentation diagrams, wiring schematics, instrument loop sheets, marshalling panels, field junction boxes, and hazardous area classification.
Knowledge and experience with control systems including PLC or DCS based systems including automation and programming
Travel requirements will vary. Travel may be up to 50% of the time across the North American fleet, OEM facilities, and repair vendors