Lead Electrical Engineer-Electrical Instrumentation
Lead Electrical Engineer-Electrical Instrumentation
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Job Description
Role
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.
Accountabilities
- 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 everchanging 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 highvoltage (13.8 kV) power distribution systems digital (Schweitzer) and electromechanical 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 Legal and 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.
- Mentor junior engineers interns and coops.
- Insure compliance to codes and standards in all Maintenance and Engineering efforts.
- Participation on and leadership of crossfunctional teams.
Qualifications :
Experience 10 years related experience in a manufacturing environment preferably in pulp and paper power generation or other heavy industry.
Education Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering or Electrical Engineering Technology from an accredited college or university. Registered P.E. license and/or PMP certification is a plus.
Key Competency Areas
- Ability to apply mathematical concepts and operations related to engineering design computational analysis reliability and statistical methods etc.
- Ability to apply principles of logical or scientific thinking to a wide range of intellectual and practical problems. Ability to deal with nonverbal symbolism (formulas scientific equations graphs etc.) in its most difficult phases. Ability to deal with a variety of abstract and concrete variables.
- Engineering working knowledge and troubleshooting insight of power generation equipment distribution systems up to 13.8 kV digital (Schweitzer) and electromechanical relay protection electrical maintenance of busses breakers and main transmission lines (MET1 and MET2) into the plant AC & DC drives arc flash studies and compliance and DCS and PLC systems (programming is not required).
- NFPA 70E training.
- Experience preparing engineering documentation such as loop diagrams P&IDs interconnections PLC/DCS I/O drawings power plans single line diagrams etc.
- Understanding of process control instrumentation (pH conductivity flow pressure level temperature etc.).
- Strong leadership skills. Results focused with demonstrated success in execution. Solid engineering acumen experience and understanding of best practices.
- Strong communication skills needed both internally and externally. Provides expertise to teams both internally and externally.
- Ability to respond to common inquiries for information from operations maintenance and milllevel management.
- Ability to write technical documents and reports in prescribed style and format.
- Ability to effectively present information.
Computer Skills
- MS Office Suite and MS Project proficiency.
- SAP and SAP Project Systems familiarity is a plus.
- AutoCAD familiarity to medium level proficiency.
Additional Information :
Competitive healthcare benefit package and 401K match
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Fulltime
Employment Type
Full-time
