Electrical Engineer

The Electrical Engineer provides plant-level engineering for electrical power, controls, automation, and equipment-reliability needs in a continuous manufacturing environment. The role partners daily with Engineering, Maintenance, Production, HSE, Quality, Information Technology, vendors, and contractors to safely troubleshoot chronic failures; design and execute upgrades; improve equipment availability; and ensure electrical and controls systems are documented, maintainable, secure, and aligned with company standards.

The position combines hands-on field support with disciplined engineering analysis, project execution, commissioning, and technical stewardship of production assets and facility systems.

MCA - Alpolic

The Electrical Engineer provides plant-level engineering for electrical power, controls, automation, and equipment-reliability needs in a continuous manufacturing environment. The role partners daily with Engineering, Maintenance, Production, HSE, Quality, Information Technology, vendors, and contractors to safely troubleshoot chronic failures; design and execute upgrades; improve equipment availability; and ensure electrical and controls systems are documented, maintainable, secure, and aligned with company standards.

The position combines hands-on field support with disciplined engineering analysis, project execution, commissioning, and technical stewardship of production assets and facility systems.

• Design, specify, modify, and support industrial electrical and control systems, including power distribution, motor-control equipment, PLCs, HMIs, variable-frequency and DC drives, instrumentation, sensors, industrial networks, and machine-safety interfaces.
• Develop control narratives, functional requirements, I/O lists, panel layouts, schematics, network architecture, bills of material, and installation work packages appropriate to project scope.
• Program, configure, troubleshoot, and improve Allen-Bradley, Mitsubishi, and Siemens PLC/HMI platforms and associated drive systems. Support legacy systems while developing practical migration and obsolescence plans.
• Support SCADA and operational-technology systems, including Ignition integration, historian/data requirements, Ethernet/IP communications, managed switches, device addressing, time synchronization, and coordination across IT/OT boundaries.
• Perform disciplined diagnostics using electrical drawings, PLC logic, trend data, drive fault history, network diagnostics, and field measurements. Change one variable at a time when practicable and preserve rollback capability.
• Maintain validated backups of PLC, HMI, drive, SCADA, and network configurations. Control access and changes in accordance with company requirements.

• Partner with electricians, mechanics, planners, and production personnel to troubleshoot breakdowns, analyze equipment and component failures, and restore equipment safely and efficiently.
• Lead or support root-cause investigations for recurring electrical, controls, communication, and process-equipment failures. Translate findings into prioritized corrective actions with defined owners and verification of effectiveness.
• Improve preventive and predictive maintenance tasks for electrical assets, controls hardware, motors, drives, panels, field devices, and network infrastructure. Recommend condition-monitoring methods and replacement intervals based on risk and failure history.
• Review CMMS history, downtime data, alarms, work orders, and spare-parts usage to identify reliability opportunities and bad actors.
• Develop critical-spare recommendations and technical specifications; support vendor selection, repair-versus-replace decisions, and lifecycle planning for obsolete or unsupported equipment.
• Provide technical escalation support during significant equipment events and participate in the on-call rotation or planned weekend work after appropriate orientation and training.

• Develop project scopes, alternatives, estimates, schedules, risk assessments, and technical justifications for capital and expense projects.
• Lead or support equipment upgrades, installations, and modifications from concept through startup, including design reviews, procurement support, factory or site acceptance testing, commissioning, punch-list closure, and turnover to operations and maintenance.
• Coordinate multidisciplinary work…