Electrical Engineer

Linde; Pasir Gudang; On-site; MYR 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global engineering company in Pasir Gudang, Malaysia is seeking an experienced Electrical Engineer to maintain and enhance high voltage electrical systems, support reliability audits, and manage contractors. The ideal candidate will have a Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, a minimum of 5 years of experience in electrical maintenance or design, and strong problem-solving skills. This role involves ensuring compliance with safety standards and providing expert support in emergency situations.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of experience as electrical maintenance and/or design engineer.
• Experience in designing and building electrical systems is an advantage.
• Detailed technical knowledge of relevant electrical equipment and systems.

Responsibilities

• Ensure electrical systems comply with regulations and reliability standards.
• Support maintenance and troubleshooting of electrical systems.
• Train and certify technical competence of site teams.
• Manage contractors and suppliers for electrical system projects.

Skills

Decision-making under pressure

Collaborative authority with contractors

Cross-functional influence

Problem-solving skills

Negotiation skills

Oral & written communication in English

Electrical safety knowledge

Root cause failure analysis

Education

Bachelor Degree in electrical engineering

Tools

Computerized Maintenance Management System (e.g. SAP PM)

Job description

Purpose of the position

• Ensure that all electrical systems provide adequate functionality at required reliability with minimum cost of ownership in compliance with internal and external regulations.
• Support the implementation of a strategy for sourcing, engineering, maintaining and troubleshooting electrical systems in a standardised way.
• Support the continuous improvement of assets, work processes and people capabilities to maximize business profitability optimizing functionality, reliability, efficiency and lifecycle cost of electrical systems.

Functional area of activity :

Operation, engineering, installation, maintenance and troubleshooting of electrical systems including:

• High/Medium/Low voltage substations and switchgears,
• Motor Control Centers,
• Variable Frequency Drives,
• Battery & UPS system,
• Electrical control systems
• Electrical measuring & billing systems
• Motors & heaters, Power generators, Transformers, portable electrical consumers Lighting, grounding, domestic electrical installations,
• PA system, communication and alarm systems, CCTV
• Predictive Maintenance tools - Partial Discharge monitoring, Transient Earth Voltage Measurement, Thermography etc.
• Electrical Operator Authority Training.

Principal responsibilities

Leadership

• Collaborate with the site teams to improve reliability of the plant assets.
• Train, assess and certify the technical competence of Electrical Chargeman and Technicians in the site teams.
• Manage contractors and suppliers.

Operations

• Perform reliability / safety audits of electrical systems and related workflows. Define and follow up on the resulting actions in collaboration with site teams.
• Provide electrical systems technical support to the operating sites and Remote Operating Centre as required.

Maintenance

• Implement a strategy for the sourcing, replacement, engineering, maintenance and troubleshooting of electrical systems. This includes:
• Defining which activities should be insourced or outsourced
• Standardisation of equipment and service providers (incl. frame contracts)
• Identification, selection & development of service providers
• Identification of obsolescence issues and planning & execution of suitable upgrade & exchange programs
• Application and ongoing management of condition-based maintenance strategies and the associated data
• Assess the competence of maintenance personnel for electrical systems (internal or external)and ensure that gaps between the actual and the required competence are closed.
• Ensure that maintenance for electrical systems is adequate, cost efficient and in compliance to Linde work processes
• Review and support the development of electrical scope of major turnarounds

Modifications

• Develop and/or review all major modifications and configuration changes to the electrical systems.
• Ensure update of the related plant documents in document management system after modification
• Lead implementation of initiatives resulting from alerts, Lessons from Reliability Events and directives
• For regionally driven projects, work with the project management functions to provide input to:
• Scope definition, costing & schedule
• Specification of respective equipment & services
• Selection of vendors & service suppliers
• Subcontract construction & installation activities
• Testing & commissioning for major modifications of the existing electrical systems
• (including emergency situations).
• Ensure relevant requirements are defined and reviewed by members of the team
• Ensure electrical system structures & vendors are compliant with Linde standards and
• Specific project/site requirements
• Participate in relevant project reviews and acceptance (incl. factory and site acceptance tests, handover of systems)
• Ensure maintenance teams are trained to operate, maintain and troubleshoot the new systems
• Ensure all necessary documents are handed over, are of good quality and are stored in the Linde Gas Global Document Management system in a standardized way
• Collaborate with vendors & service providers to ensure alignment with Linde maintenance teams for troubleshooting and service.
• Support implementation of the 'Integrate new assets' workflow.

Troubleshooting

• Provide the site teams with necessary expert support in emergency situations.
• Support the local investigation of electrical system related trips.
• Prepare contingency plans for site.
• Lead or facilitate root cause failure analysis for major (>10,000 USD) or repeated downtimes.
• Feedback learnings from incidents to Reliability Improvement team and support creation of

LFREs'.

• Reporting / performance management.
• Review downtime reporting of electrical system failures at sites.
• Review internal and external maintenance cost.
• Review open actions for sites and provide direct support for site teams to close actions.
• Report implementation status of initiatives resulting from alerts, Lessons from Reliability

Events and directives.

Required key skills (functional/technical)

• Ability to take right decision based on facts under pressure
• Establish and maintain collaborative authority with contractors/suppliers
• Ability to influence/convince cross functional teams including superiors
• Ability to take right decision based on facts under pressure
• Establish and maintain collaborative authority with contractors/suppliers
• Ability to influence/convince cross functional teams including superiors
• Strong problem solving and project management skills.
• Good negotiation skills
• Good oral & written communication skills in English language to explain and document reasoning for decisions.
• Key functional skills
• Experience in operating, maintaining, troubleshooting and design of high voltage electrical systems.
• Broad experience with electrical isolation and re-energisation.
• Detailed technical knowledge of relevant electrical equipment and systems.
• Good background in electrical safety with knowledge of hazards involved in operation and maintenance of electrical systems.
• In depth-knowledge of predictive and preventative maintenance techniques including the use of SAP PM to manage these processes.
• Detailed knowledge with relevant national and international codes and standards.
• Basic Knowledge of ASU / HYCO / CO2 plants including the associated hazards.
• Familiarity with Process & Instrumentation (P&I), logics and control loop diagrams with knowledge of control systems.
• Experience in root cause failure analysis.
• Strong capability to facilitate or lead risk assessments and make risk-based decisions.

Required qualifications/experience

• Bachelor Degree in electrical engineering preferably with major in electrical power distribution and drives.
• Minimum 5 years of experience as electrical maintenance and/or design engineer for process plants with high voltage systems.
• Experience in designing and building electrical systems would be an advantage.
• Experience of using Computerized Maintenance Management System preferably SAP PM would be an advantage.