Electrical Engineer-Electrical & Instrumentation

Electrical Engineer-Electrical & Instrumentation

Job Category: Engineering

Requisition Number: ELECT
001042

• Posted :
  July 28, 2026
• Full-Time
• On-site

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Spring Grove, PA 17362, USA

Pixelle Specialty Solutions™ is a specialty paper company in North America with a fully integrated pulp and paper operation in Spring Grove, Pennsylvania and a coating operation in Fremont, Ohio. Supported by an experienced product development team, Pixelle excelsin designing customized solutions that help customers bring new products to market. With a long history of leadership in the paper industry, Pixelle delivers the most comprehensive portfolio of specialty papers to help you meet today’s challenging demands.

This position is responsible for supporting the business in Electrical and Instrumentation Engineering for Pixelle’ s Spring Grove, Pennsylvania facility. The primary roles of this position are to manage and implement mill capital and major repair projects, provide day to day technical support as needed within the general facility and provide power systems expertise and engineering acumen within the Utilities Department.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Promote and support all facility level safety and environmental initiatives.
• Perform front end studies on potential capital projects with high business impacts.
• Develop and maintain dynamic capital and major repair plans, adjusting to the ever-changing needs of the mill.
• Support Engineering and Maintenance resources in the implementation of capital and major repair projects with strong emphasis on safety, environmental impact, quality, cost and schedule.
• Prioritize and provide oversight to assigned projects completed through Engineering.
• Management of multiple projects concurrently from initial concept, evaluation of alternatives, estimating, schedule, cost forecasting, specifications, design, safety reviews, bid review and selection, installation and commissioning, training, spare parts, and documentation.
• Provide power systems expertise and engineering acumen that includes industry accepted best practices, design, troubleshooting and operations support of turbine generators and auxiliary systems, excitation systems, high-voltage (13.8 kV) power distribution systems and electro-mechanical relay protection, main transmission lines (MET1 and MET2) maintenance, electrical maintenance of busses and breakers, arc flash analysis, programmable logic controllers, distributed control systems, low and medium voltage power distribution systems and infrastructure, AC and DC drives and process control systems.
• Assist in troubleshooting efforts to resolve technical problems in the mill.
• Manage and provide oversight to outside contractors regarding safety, code, technical and commercial requirements.
• Assist purchasing in the development of contractual agreements with vendors on higher cost equipment and labor purchases.
• Assist Finance in tax, capital vs. expense and IRR financial decisions and justifications.
• Maintain capital asset and engineering documentation.
• Insure compliance to codes and standards in all Maintenance and Engineering efforts.
• Participation on and leadership of cross-functional teams.

Experience – 3+ years related experience in a manufacturing environment preferably in pulp and paper, power generation or other heavy industry.

Education – Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Electrical Engineering Technology or Electro-Mechanical Engineering Technology from an accredited college or university.

Key Competncy Areas

• Ability to apply mathematical concepts and operations related to engineering design, computational analysis, reliability and statistical methods, etc.
• Ability to apply principles of…