Electrical and Instrumentation Technical Authority

Company:
INEOS Olefins & Polymers USA

Interested in joining a winning team? A team whose employees are empowered to make a difference?

The Electrical & Instrumentation (E&I) Technical Authority is INEOS O&P USA’s most senior authority for electrical power systems and instrumentation. The role defines, governs, and enforces enterprise standards, asset care strategies, and system health expectations that preserve the safe, reliable, and compliant operation of high-voltage generation and distribution systems, electrical protection systems, and precision field instrumentation across more than $15B in enterprise replacement value.

Decisions made in this role directly protect the company’s license to operate, prevent high-potential electrical safety incidents, and sustain top-quartile operational performance. The TA2 leads enterprise-wide technical governance for electrical and instrumentation systems, ensuring sites operate within required standards and approving any deviations or deferrals that could impact safety, compliance, or asset value. Site leadership teams are accountable to this role for compliance with E&I standards, and no deviation, deferral, or exception with potential impact on safety, compliance, or operational performance may proceed without TA2 approval.

The role shapes long-term E&I strategy, influences $20–30M+ in annual electrical maintenance and capital spend, and drives a multi-year transformation to harmonize and elevate electrical and instrumentation standards across diverse sites, technologies, and regulatory environments. The E&I Technical Authority works in close collaboration with other Technical Authorities (Reliability, Equipment Integrity, Process Safety) to deliver integrated lifecycle risk management across the enterprise.

The position is recognized across INEOS as a technical expert expected to engage with OEMs, industry bodies, and peer networks to stay ahead of emerging standards and ensure O&P USA maintains leadership in electrical and instrumentation reliability and safety.

INEOS O&P USA is a major contributor to INEOS Group performance—yet operates aging assets with significant variability in electrical and instrumentation standards, maintenance practices, and system health maturity across sites. The enterprise is undergoing a major transformation to implement a corporate Operations Management System (OMS) and centralize discipline leadership through a new Engineering & Technology organization. This role is central to that change.

The E&I Technical Authority will help shift the organization from site-based autonomy to a unified enterprise model with consistent E&I standards, expectations, and discipline leadership. Success requires someone with deep technical mastery of electrical power systems and instrumentation, proven experience setting policy across large manufacturing environments, and the resilience needed to drive cultural and technical change. This position serves as the single point of accountability for all electrical and instrumentation engineering matters across O&P USA.

• Own and maintain enterprise-level E&I engineering standards, care strategies, and preventive maintenance protocols for all electrical and instrumentation systems.
• Maintain alignment with NFPA 70E, NEC, IEEE, IEC, RAGAGEP, and INEOS Group Guidance Notes (including IGGN 15).
• Serve as the recognized authority for approving deviations from E&I standards and making enterprise-level technical decisions, ensuring derogations are rare, risk‑justified, and formally analyzed.
• Govern work processes for electrical distribution system care, instrument calibration, and condition‑based monitoring.
• Lead structured updates of standards based on lessons learned, technology developments, and regulatory changes.

• Provide governance oversight of enterprise electrical safety programs, including arc flash hazard analysis, lockout/tagout for electrical systems, and…