Maintenance Engineer – Electrical & Instrumentation

Maintenance Engineer – Electrical & Instrumentation
Job No: 308740

Leverage your engineering expertise in a dynamic and impactful role

Collaborate with a skilled team to drive innovation and efficiency

Enjoy competitive compensation and benefits with a global industry leader

About the Organization
Methanex is the world's largest supplier of methanol to major international markets in North America, Asia-Pacific, Europe and Latin America. With the care of the environment as the root of their business, Methanex is a Responsible Care® company committed to the safe, ethical and environmentally sound management of the chemicals it makes and uses. Responsible Care® is an ethics established by the Chemical Industry Association of Canada (CIAC).

The Responsible Care® ethic is an integral part of Methanex’s global commitment to ensuring the well‑being of all stakeholders, wherever Methanex does business.

About the Opportunity
Methanex is currently seeking a  Maintenance Engineer - Electrical & Instrumentation  to join the team in  Medicine Hat, AB , on a full‑time basis.

The Maintenance Engineer - Electrical & Instrumentation is responsible for validating and engineering designs through the Management of Change (MOC) process within Maintenance Engineering. This includes providing technical solutions and performing modifications to electrical and instrumentation designs that enhance plant reliability.

The successful candidate also supports the monitoring of the plant reliability framework, which includes identifying reliability risks that could impact the plant or business operations, and delivering reliability strategies, analysis and solutions to measure and improve plant performance.

More specifically, your responsibilities will include:

Provide electrical and instrumentation designs for low‑risk plant modifications and upgrades

Review and verify the design integrity of low‑risk electrical and instrumentation equipment

Support material selection to minimize costs and maximize facility reliability and maintainability

Provide technical support to Maintenance and Operations during emergency changes and equipment issues

Respond to management requests related to electrical and instrumentation engineering matters

Apply appropriate codes, standards, calculations, and specifications

Analyze asset and plant reliability data to identify issues, confirm management strategies, and ensure effective use of predictive methods to isolate inherent reliability problems

Utilize the Management of Change (MOC) procedure to provide and execute engineering solutions to equipment failures and other reliability issues

Apply reliability and root cause analysis tools (e.g., statistical modeling, reliability prediction, fault tree analysis, Weibull analysis)

Contribute to risk assessments of equipment and systems

Collaborate across departments to evaluate asset performance and determine improvement opportunities

Develop, maintain, and improve systems to measure the reliability of plants, equipment, components, and processes

Measure and report on overall equipment effectiveness and other factors affecting asset reliability and cost

Provide asset management support to enhance plant and equipment availability and performance

Apply value analysis in repair/replace, redesign, or manufacture/purchase decisions using reliability tools

Work with Technical and Project teams to ensure new or modified equipment meets reliability and maintainability requirements across its lifecycle

Collaborate with Maintenance and Technical teams in developing and executing the annual department plan, ensuring alignment with the business plan and Corporate Strategy

Lead and/or support global and local projects

About You
To qualify, you will need  an undergraduate degree with a major in an engineering discipline , with registration as a  Professional Engineer with APEGA , and  8+ years  of related industrial experience, with at least 2 years in a reliability‑related role.

Additionally, the following skills and background will be highly valued:

Experience with incident investigation (e.g. Tap Root)

Experience with reliability analysis/modelling

6+ years’ experience in electrical and…