Electrical Engineer

Responsibilities

• Provide electrical discipline support in the construction, installation, debugging, and startup of equipment and automated systems, including hands‑on work up to the point of turnover to operations at domestic and international manufacturing sites. Majority of time spent on the floor working on equipment.
• Supervise and provide direction to internal or contract engineering technicians, internal maintenance, and outside contract trades during all aspects of equipment installation and conversion such as demolition, construction, installation, testing, and debugging of production equipment.
• Develop and use project plans and timelines to achieve project goals without sacrificing safety, intellectual property, or quality; adhere to all corporate, business unit, and site guidelines.
• Ensure that all project team members have safety training, analyze safety in job plans, and meet all safety requirements. Identify potential safety issues, report, and investigate all safety incidents.
• Develop an understanding of process and equipment functions in the area of responsibility; analyze and correct equipment installation practices to improve efficiencies and enhance installation schedules.
• Interface with external system integrators and machine builders to successfully deliver fully integrated process equipment systems to plants on time, on budget, and that satisfy performance measures.
• Perform hands‑on troubleshooting, direct engineering technicians and trades as necessary to replace defective components and execute changes to solve equipment/process issues.
• Provide training to internal or contract engineering technicians, internal maintenance, and outside contract trades on new equipment installation procedures as required for successful execution of installation activities.
• Review, “redline,” and modify existing installation checklists, machine part lists, illustrations, machine specs, schedules, and complete drawing packages, including follow‑up with drafting services.
• Provide direction to technicians.
• Create and modify existing documentation to complete drawing packages, installation checklists, machine part lists, illustrations, and machine specs of production equipment.
• Procure and expedite materials needed to build or install new or modified equipment.
• Assess condition and usability of existing equipment for fit and function with new installation plans.
• Modify software programs used for process equipment control.
• Understand the use and set‑up of machine controls for system analog and digital I/O requirements, control sequence logic, fail‑safe states, and recovery sequences for digital and analog I/O.
• Assist in developing integrated industrial control systems for new manufacturing equipment and modification of existing equipment; redesign electrical components to reduce installation cost, solve equipment interferences, and correct inadequate designs.

• BS in Electrical Engineering or equivalent; equivalent work experience may be considered in rare circumstances.
• Knowledge of power systems for 480 VAC and below; determine and recommend best solutions from a series of alternatives within plant guidelines.
• Translate engineering solutions to requirements, then to process and/or equipment designs that deliver required performance criteria; interpret electrical drawings and schematics to aid in troubleshooting.
• Work well with other disciplines (IT, Mechanical, Process Engineering) to fully understand manufacturing system functionality and design requirements.
• Ability to work hands‑on with equipment using typical hand tools, instruments, and measurement/alignment devices; flexible with managing multiple work streams in a team environment, adjusting to changing priorities with a strong…