Electrical & Instrumentation Reliability Engineer - Seaford, DE

Position: Electrical & Instrumentation Reliability Engineer - Seaford, DE, United States
Location(s):
Seaford, Delaware Company: INVISTACareer Field:
Engineering Job Number: 194552

Apply:  JobINVISTA's Seaford site is seeking an Electrical & Instrumentation Reliability Engineer to play a key role in advancing the reliability, safety, and performance of critical manufacturing assets. In this position, you'll leverage your expertise in electrical systems, instrumentation, controls, and reliability engineering to solve complex challenges, eliminate recurring failures, and help drive the site's journey toward more predictive and proactive operations.

This is an opportunity to make a direct impact through technical leadership, modernization initiatives, and value-driven decision making while helping strengthen the long-term competitiveness of the site

Our Team This role is part of a collaborative reliability and engineering team focused on improving asset performance, operational excellence, and long-term site capability. In this role, you'll work closely with site Operations, Maintenance, Reliability, Project, and Technical teams to identify opportunities, solve complex problems, and implement sustainable improvements. You'll serve as a trusted technical resource across the site, partnering with a wide range of stakeholders to support reliability strategies, modernization efforts, while helping build technical capability.

This role contributes to INVISTA’s Electrical and Instrumentation Capability Teams, defining and deploying enterprise wide reliability strategies that strengthen technical capability, standardize asset care practices, and improve long term operational performance and risk reduction across the organization.

What You Will Do Lead proactive reliability improvements for electrical, instrumentation, and control-system assets, focusing on recurring-failure elimination, lifecycle strategies, and long-term equipment performance

Develop and improve reliability strategies for power-distribution systems, motors, drives, motor control centers, transformers, switch gear, analyzers, transmitters, control valves, and field instrumentation.

Perform root cause failure analysis and develop sustainable corrective actions to eliminate recurring failures and bad actors.

Evaluate equipment performance data and apply predictive and condition-monitoring technologies to improve reliability and reduce lifecycle cost.

Support site electrical-safety initiatives, including arc-flash mitigation, grounding, protective systems, and compliance with applicable standards.

Provide engineering support for instrumentation upgrades, replacements, and modernization projects.

Prepare specifications, scopes of work, engineering packages, and economic justifications for reliability and capital projects.

Support Management of Change, process hazard analysis action closure, and risk-reduction activities.

Identify and champion automation, monitoring, and digital solutions that improve safety, reliability, and economic performance.

Partner with Maintenance and Operations to strengthen troubleshooting capability and technical knowledge.

Support predictive-maintenance programs, including thermography, motor monitoring, instrumentation-health monitoring, and power-system inspections.

Assist with commissioning, startup, and performance testing of new or modified systems.

Use economic decision-making and PBM principles to prioritize reliability investments and resources toward the highest-value opportunities.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)
Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Electrical Engineering Technology, Instrumentation Engineering, or a related field.

Experience with power distribution systems, motor control centers, switch gear, transformers, motors, AC and DC drives, and protective relaying.

Experience…