Electrical Engineer

Where you will work

Lewiston is Clearwater Paper’s original manufacturing facility and home to nearly 700 dedicated team members who power our site. Together, we make paperboard used in products across the United States, including food packaging, plates, cups and more. Home to the first mill that produced poster board from wood waste, the site currently operates two paper machines, two extruders, two power boilers and two recovery boilers.

Located where the Snake and Clearwater rivers meet on the Idaho–Washington border, Lewiston offers an active outdoor lifecycle with easy access to fishing, boating, hiking and camping. The region’s milder climate means more rain than snow in the winter and long, sunny days in the summer.

Living here means you’ll be close to Lewis-Clark State College, University of Idaho, Washington State University, and Walla Walla Community College, as well as strong local K–12 school districts.

The Electrical Engineer will provide service to develop and implement capital projects. The position will assist maintenance and operations with technical analyses and designs to improve existing processes and equipment. Use engineering standards and specifications in the design and construction of projects.

• Work as a liaison between Maintenance, Operations, and Engineering teams
• Develops cost estimates, plans, and schedules for new projects
• Aids with the preparation, submittal, and authorization for capital expenditures and major repairs
• Prepares request for quotations, evaluates proposals, and issues contracts for equipment purchases, material purchases, design services, and construction
• Circulates updated drawings and documentation to members of the project team
• Reviews and approves any change orders
• Coordinates project installations to have minimum impact on on‑going operations
• Inspects work to ensure compliance with contract documents
• Performs safety inspections to promote job safety and eliminate safety incidents on projects
• Ensures project installation follows safe work practices by both contractors and Clearwater Paper employees
• Provides regular status reports on projects
• Assists with the management of project scope and budget to the approved project plan
• Maintains project documentation to include drawing revisions, equipment files, and updated mill records
• Initiates the pre‑startup safety review to ensure equipment is ready for start‑up
• Works with maintenance and operations departments to ensure successful project implementation
• Drives a post start‑up punch list to meet the goals of the project
• Verifies existing equipment layouts and dimensions
• Provides engineering analysis during selection and optimization of equipment
• Facilitates detailed design drawings for equipment installations
• Coordinates design activities with consulting engineers and equipment manufacturers

Reviews and approves equipment and engineering drawings

• Work as a strategic partner in the electrical and instrumentation department primarily in failure prevention and long‑term support
• Work with condition monitoring program to reduce RED’s list (Vibration, IR, etc.)
• Work with system analysis tools and vendors to better the system power quality
• Support site power system study and model updates (Relay Protection, Easy Power Model, etc.)
• Perform BDA/RCA/RCFA/5‑Whys/defect elimination on contributors of yield, utilization, and capacity losses due to failures attributed to equipment, processes, etc.
• Work with other disciplines within the reliability team to update and improve current criticality model
• Define critical spares and BOM’s as needed
• Verify critical spare list is updated annually. Work with engineering to verify BOM’s are in place after commissioning
• Work with group on outage oversight and management of MCC’s, emergency generators, switch gear, UPS systems, transformers, and battery backup systems

• Provides technical assistance to trouble‑shoot equipment and/or operating problems
• Reviews options and recommends solutions to resolve operating and/or maintenance issues
• Coordinates contractor’s activities for contracted‑out maintenance work during…