Electrical Reliability Engineer

Overview

We are looking for an Electrical Reliability Engineer to join their team. If you are looking for a way to accelerate your career and be part of an industry-leading company, this may be the opportunity for you! We operate oil refineries, chemicals plants, and biofuel facilities across North America.

• Maintain the integrity and reliability of all Electrical Distribution Systems and Equipment for the facility. This includes but is not limited to developing engineering solutions and exploring new technologies to address repetitive failures and other issues.
• Track bad actors and provide reliability and performance metrics indicators to determine the health of the electrical infrastructure and equipment.
• Develop and update asset strategies for refinery electrical equipment such as transformers, switch gear, breakers, protection relays, cables and other distribution systems.
• Review and update site’s Electrical Standards and Specifications.
• Develop, maintain and optimize PM's for electrical infrastructure and equipment.
• Perform Arc Flash Hazard analysis for electrical infrastructure.
• Identify innovative technologies to proactively identify and prevent common failure modes (anomaly detection).
• Lead or support root cause analysis “RCA” investigations. Compile recommendations and action items from investigation. Present findings to leadership.
• Provide electrical equipment work scopes for unit Turnarounds(TA)/outages. Assist planning teams with technical questions as they develop execution plans.
• Provide electrical engineering support in TAs such as developing recommendations for discovery work and technical assistance to maintenance teams during the TA window.
• Support the maintenance and electrical operations teams in troubleshooting techniques and provide engineering solutions for protection schemes.
• Interface with vendors to ensure purchased engineering equipment will meet our reliability and design standards.
• Support the long-term asset advancement teams by developing engineering solutions to address unit/electrical infrastructure risk and/or investment project opportunities.
• Function as an Electrical Subject Matter Expert that provides knowledge of various codes and standards, safety rules, laws, regulations, departmental policies, and procedures, governing the design and installation of electrical equipment.
• Apply Principled Based Management (PBM) in ways that are consistent with our Guiding Principles and PBM Framework

• Bachelor’s degree in Electronics or Electrical Engineering.
• 3 years of electrical engineering experience in reliability, design, maintenance, construction, or a combination of the four.
• Experience in Refinery, Chemical plants, Engineering Design Consultancy, or Manufacturing.

• 5+ years of experience in electrical engineering in a refinery or manufacturing environment
• Knowledge of electrical studies including load flow, relay coordination, arc flash hazard and short circuit analysis.
• Knowledge of working in an electrical system model (i.e. SKM Powertools, ETAP, Easy Power)
• Formal Root Cause Analysis training
• Previous experience working with High, Medium and Low Voltage power distribution equipment.
• Knowledge of electrical protection schemes and of compliance and engineering standards (NEC, NFPA, API, OSHA, IEEE and other RAGAGEPs)
• Electrical Troubleshooting Experience

This role is subject to the Transportation Workers Identification Credentialing (TWIC) rule and requires the successful candidate to obtain a TWIC identification badge, allowing for un-escorted access to the facility within a specific time period.