Electrical Reliability Engineer

Position Summary

Marathon Petroleum Company is seeking an Electrical Reliability Engineer to support the Mandan Refinery and Dickinson Renewable Diesel Facility in North Dakota. The position is responsible for developing and executing plans, programs, and processes to maintain electrical equipment and systems across their lifecycle, reducing safety, environmental, and economic risk and ensuring compliance with applicable electrical codes and standards.

• Provide technical/troubleshooting assistance in resolving electrical design, operation, and maintenance problems.
• Recognize when other resources are required and engage the appropriate parties.
• Champion electrical safety for the sites.
• Manage the refinery’s electrical equipment preventative and predictive maintenance program, including equipment asset strategies, monitoring plans, PM plans, and PdM activities.
• Lead investigations to solve recurring electrical equipment failures, reliability threats, and performance issues.
• Initiate and participate in management of change (MOC) reviews and incident investigations.
• Develop projects and concepts for reliability improvement, prepare reports that monitor and track reliability indicators, and provide technical resources and training to support reliability programs.
• Support refinery turnarounds, including scope development, planning, reviews, material acquisition, and execution of electrical work scopes.
• Develop and review turnaround worklists to include compliance-based testing requirements, maintenance activities, repairs, recommended upgrades, and replacements of critical electrical assets.
• Support factory acceptance testing and site commissioning of electrical projects or major equipment, including during turnarounds.
• Maintain and manage the plant’s electrical model utilizing ETAP software, including management of the electrical equipment arc flash labeling program.
• Perform and/or review electrical system studies with emphasis on arc‑flash analysis, protection and coordination, motor starting, and short circuit studies.
• Communicate with personnel from different disciplines and grade levels, along with outside resources, to obtain needed information or resolve issues.
• Review design drawings and construction packages for electrical related projects.
• Participate in technical reviews of vendor equipment drawings.
• Manage the electrical critical equipment list database and maintain a bad actor list.
• Develop and maintain final relay set points and logic configuration settings for site transmission, substation, and distribution systems.
• Provide leadership and decision‑making skills during turnarounds and unplanned equipment outages regarding repair solutions.
• Support the refinery in high impact unplanned electrical issues as required.
• Revalidate/write electrical testing procedures, maintenance procedures, QA/QC checklists, etc. to ensure reliability excellence via NETA requirements.

Bachelor’s Degree (or higher) in Electrical Engineering from an accredited institution required.
Minimum 2 years of post‑degree relevant experience required, preferably in refining or petrochemical industry.
A valid driver’s license and routine travel between Mandan and Dickinson required.
Must be able to physically perform essential job functions, including wearing required PPE, working at elevated heights, confined space entry, fall protection, and respirator usage.
Must be authorized to work in the U.S. on a full‑time indefinite basis without employment visa sponsorship now or in the future.

• Proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, and Outlook.
• Working knowledge of National Electrical Code (NEC), OSHA electrical codes, state codes, NFPA 70E, and NFPA 70B.
• Knowledge of wiring terminology, conduits, and conduit hardware.
• Understanding of electrical drawings, piping and instrumentation diagrams (P&), ladder logic, and entry‑level programming.
• Experience performing electrical power system studies using ETAP modeling.
• Familiarity with electrical maintenance and troubleshooting practices for industrial electrical applications.
• Knowledge of electrical distribution and substation design (preferred).
• Experience…