Electrical and Instrumentation Engineer - $120000 - $150000 / USA

Position Description
Position Title: EIC Engineer

Purpose
To lead the Electrical/ Instrument function for the site through collaboration between the Strategic Engineering specialist resources and the operations teams. Institute effective reliability and process safety improvement agendas for all critical E/I assets.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Demonstrate and/or lead the commitment to the pursuit of achieving Zero Harm through behavioral based safety
• Ensure compliance with applicable Company HSE Performance Standards, as well as applicable acts and regulations
• Supports BEx initiatives and ensures participation from all areas of responsibility
• Daily Support to Operations
• Small MOC’s, FI or Capex projects
• Participates in PHA’s
• Receives close direction from Senior Engineer
• Ensuring that all electrical assets at the Plant have effective Reliability and Capability Life Plans and maintenance strategies
• Work closely with Maintenance Planners to ensure that preventive & predictive maintenance work orders in SAP PM are aligned with equipment maintenance strategies
• Complete equipment failure investigations using root cause analysis techniques
• Conduct engineering statistical reliability studies from the risk assessments, criticality data, corrective maintenance history and failure history
• Assure compliance to relevant external statutory regulation and internal plant and engineering standards and communicating such requirements to the relevant stakeholders
• Ensure application of Company Management of Change policies and standards
• Implementation and Auditing of Standards and Guidelines in collaboration with Principal Engineers and Operations Personnel
• Undertaking and organizing technical investigations, inspections, studies and surveys, and analysing all historical data, to determine static plant equipment risk and criticality
• Continuous update and electrical items in the operational risk registers. Implement effective controls and improvement actions (elimination/reduction)
• Collaboration with Operations, Turnaround and Project functions in effective identification & scoping of requirements. Execution of technical R&I role during turnarounds
• Support tactical response to address equipment deficiencies in an effective & timely manner during turnarounds

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering
• 4-10+ years of experience in maintenance and/or engineering of a petro-chemical manufacturing plant, power generation or similar heavy industry environment.
• Familiarity with Safety Management Systems.
• Familiarity with Quality Management Systems.
• Familiarity with Manufacturing Excellence models, systems and processes relating to asset capability and reliability.
• Familiarity with Turnaround management systems.
• SAP PM or equivalent
• Experienced in risk identification, analysis and mitigation strategies.
• Demonstrated ability in optimising reliability e.g. reducing failure rates, increasing uptime, etc.
• Strong understanding of Reliability Centered Maintenance strategy development.
• Strong understanding of statistical analysis of failure data.
• Competent in the various methods of Root Cause Failure Analysis.