Underground Electrical Engineer

The Mosaic Company; Colonsay; On-site; CAD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

The Mosaic Company in Colonsay, Saskatchewan, is seeking an Underground Electrical Engineer to lead electrical capital projects and drive reliability improvements in an underground mining environment.

You will focus on control system design, protection, and coordination, while collaborating with Operations, Maintenance, and Reliability teams to maintain asset health and safety. A strong background in HV systems and SCADA is required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering is required.
• Professional Engineer (P. Eng.) with Saskatchewan accreditation is required.
• 8+ years of related experience and strong leadership in multi-team environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead underground electrical capital projects from planning to commissioning.
• Provide SME guidance on electrical infrastructure including protection and controls (600V to 13.8kV).
• Coordinate with Operations, Maintenance and Reliability teams to improve asset reliability.
• Develop and implement maintenance and reliability programs (PM/PdM).
• Review and authorize work permits and safe work practices.
• Collaborate with field service contractors and internal teams to optimize asset health.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Cross-functional teamwork

Influence others

Safety awareness

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering

Professional Engineer (P. Eng.) with Saskatchewan accreditation (APEGS)

Tools

EasyPower

GE PLCs/Delta-V

SCADA

DCS systems

Job description

The Mosaic Company (NYSE: MOS) is the world’s leading integrated producer of concentrated phosphate and potash—two of the three most important nutrients in agriculture. We employ more than 13,000 people in six countries to serve farmers all over the world. Our Headquarters is in Lithia, Florida with operations throughout North America (U.S./Canada) and South America.

At Mosaic We Help the World Grow the Food it Needs

Where will you work: Onsite - Colonsay

Are you our next Underground Electrical Engineer?

The position provides safe and effective electrical engineering services for underground and will be responsible for electrical engineering, automation, and communication services. The position will act as project lead for all underground electrical capital projects. The position will work closely with a team of Operations, Maintenance, and Reliability personnel to monitor asset reliability results and address issues hindering reliability as well as provide electrical engineering, reliability, and process subject matter expertise to a team of peers developing and deploying reliability improvements.

This role will be highly focused on control system design, integration and management. Responsible SME for electrical infrastructure equipment, including protection and controls, ranging from final utilization voltage (600V) to high voltage (4.16kV/13.8kV).

Coordinate power system study activities. Complete minor updates to power system models work with third party vendors.

What will you do?

• Estimate, plan, specify, design, review/approve of any/all consultant proposals, and supervise the installation or modification of all projects
• Identify practical, economic solutions to electrical and instrumentation engineering requirements with the objective of increased effectiveness and overall operations efficiency. Develop and review predictive and preventative maintenance programs. Initiate capital appropriation requests, work orders, and requisitions. Conduct electrical product research for up to date knowledge of engineering and maintenance developments.
• Provide engineering and technical assistance or guidance to supervisors, crews or contractors, on or off site, as required
• Promote health and safety, teamwork, leadership and good supervisory and employee relations through example. All projects are evaluated to ensure that any hazards to workers, the public, the environment or the integrity of the physical plant, will be minimized through project design parameters
• Identify deficiencies in maintenance processes and develop sustainable improvement. Apply and optimize PM / PdM activities to drive improvement in asset mean time between failures. Provide prioritized asset assessments that support the 5-year capital planning process.
• Track site specific downtime to identify reliability improvement opportunities and utilize Root Cause Analysis processes to review failures and identify corrective actions to prevent re-occurrence. Provide trouble shooting support to maintenance and operations process knowledge required for effective problem solving.
• Collaborate with maintenance planning teams to develop key field service maintenance scopes for regular maintenance, and annual turnarounds and peers to develop asset strategies, pursue consistency between sites and share best practices/experiences. Deploy and execute on asset strategies and monitor results to continually refine and improve asset health management. Assist with supervision of field service contractors. Interpretate test results and ensure follow up actions are tracked and completed.
• Conduct audits and inspections. Coordinate power system study activities. Complete minor updates to power system models.
• Review and authorize work permits; development of lock-out-tag-out plans.
• Other duties as assigned.

What do you need for this role?

• Bachelor's degree required, major in Electrical Engineering
• Professional Engineer (P. Eng.) with accreditation from the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Saskatchewan (APEGS).
• 4+ years or more of related experience.
• Demonstrated leadership skills and experience in multi team roles.
• 8+ years or more of related experience.
• Bachelor Degree in Electrical Engineering required.
• Proven communication skills both verbal and written, extremely organized, good interpersonal skills, cooperative, able to work with and lead cross-functional teams
• Must demonstrate ability to influence others; and build team atmosphere.
• Working familiarity with RCM and FMEA
• Experience with operation and maintenance of high voltage switchgear (gas, air, and metal-enclosed), transformers (oil-filled and dry-type), and other industrial electrical infrastructure is an asset
• Working knowledge of power system protection and coordination. Protection and coordination with SEL and/or GE relaying and SCADA is an asset.
• Experience with underground mining power systems is an asset for potash sites.
• Experience with power system modelling software tools (EasyPower is an asset)
• Control system knowledge. Experience with GE, PLC’s and Delta-V.
• Knowledge and experience with instrumentation is an asset.
• Experience with field instrumentation, PLC and DCS control systems, project management and related programming will be an asset.
• Knowledge and experience with mine hoisting systems is an asset.
• Working knowledge of Canadian Electrical Code.
• Working knowledge on CSA M421 Use of Electricity in Mines for Canadian sites.
• Knowledge of Predictive Technologies (vibration, IR, UE, MCA, oil analysis).
• Facilitation experience with RCM and FME is an asset.
• Development experience with PM procedures is an asset.
• CMRP (SMRP certified maintenance reliability professional), CRE (ASQ certified reliability engineer), CRL (AMP certified reliability leader), or CSSBB (ASQ certified six sigma black belt) certification is an asset.