Electrical and Instrumentation Technical Authority

Electrical & Instrumentation Technical Authority (TA2)

Company: INEOS Olefins & Polymers USA

Location:

League City, Texas (hybrid) | Grade: H37

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.

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, helping shift the organization from site‑based autonomy to a unified enterprise model with consistent E&I standards, expectations, and discipline leadership.

• 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 NFPA 70E compliance.
• Lead systematic, enterprise‑level reliability reviews of power generation and distribution systems, directing corrective actions where performance or asset health deviates from standard.
• Approve lifecycle investment priorities, reallocate resources when necessary, and mandate interventions to address unacceptable risk.
• Maintain visibility of aging system risks, emerging reliability threats, and discipline‑wide performance trends.

• Assure the reliability and accuracy of instrumentation and field controls across all sites.
• Govern enterprise‑wide calibration and preventive maintenance programs for instrumentation assets.
• Coordinate with control systems engineers to maintain field instrumentation health and control system integration.
• Resolve systemic reliability issues with sensors, transmitters, loops, and panels.

• Integrate on‑site power generation facilities (145 MW installed capacity across O&P USA) into the overall electrical reliability strategy.
• Oversee health monitoring and risk management of site power generation assets.
• Ensure operational interfaces between generation assets and site electrical distribution systems are well defined and governed.
• Support site‑led reliability improvement initiatives for power generation systems.

• Define and execute the multi‑year enterprise strategy for E&I, establishing the vision, objectives, and resource…