Electrical and Instrumentation Designer

PTS Advance; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

PTS Advance seeks an experienced Electrical Designer to lead a team creating and maintaining detailed electrical drawings using AutoCAD. Projects vary in size and involve collaboration with PMs, design engineers, drafters, and other disciplines.

The role requires a minimum of ten years of electrical design experience in refinery or related facilities, strong CAD skills, and the ability to work independently or in teams while meeting deadlines.

Qualifications

• Minimum ten years of electrical design experience in refinery/plant facilities.
• Proficient with AutoCAD and design standards.
• Strong communication and multi-project management skills.
• Familiar with field investigations and reporting.

Responsibilities

• Prepare accurate and complete drawings using practical design knowledge.
• Coordinate with other disciplines and assist lead engineer/designer to ensure quality.
• Conduct field investigations and produce detailed sketches.
• Stay updated on design processes, modeling, drafting techniques, and standards.
• Develop and suggest design standard improvements to reduce costs and improve quality.
• Investigate and resolve design/field engineering problems with new approaches.
• Ensure effective methods and engineering techniques are used.
• Resolve project issues and provide status updates in meetings.
• Provide technical guidance to co-workers.
• Contribute to a collaborative team environment.
• Align all disciplines for 3D CAD model reviews and issues.
• Perform other duties to keep the team on task.
• Assist business development in estimating costs and deliverables.
• Conduct QA/QC reviews of drawings and packages.
• Prepare drawing packages for IFA/IFB/ IFC in KM standard format.
• Use the latest version of AutoCAD.
• Understand material nomenclature, specs, and P&IDs.
• Utilize Blue Cielo Meridian or equivalent DM systems.
• Collaborate with PM, Design Engineer, and team onConstruction drawings.
• Understand measurement equipment and process piping.
• Know industry terminology and acronyms for integration into outputs.
• Work on As-built and Construction projects concurrently.

Skills

Electrical design

AutoCAD

Project coordination

Communication skills

Team collaboration

QA/QC

Field investigations

Education

Associate degree

Tools

AutoCAD

Blue Cielo Meridian

Windows OS

Job description

This position is responsible for leading a team in designing and maintaining detailed electrical drawings using AutoCAD software.

Assigned projects will vary in size and complexity and may involve working independently or as part of a multi-disciplined team that

includes Project Managers, Design Engineers, Drafting Designers, and Drafters.

Duties and Responsibilities to include the following:

• Prepare accurate and complete drawings using practical design knowledge.
• Coordinate with other disciplines and assist lead engineer and/or designer to ensure effective quality product.
• Conduct field investigations when needed, produce field reports with detailed sketches.
• Keep up to date on new design processes, modeling, drafting techniques, and standards.
• Develop and recommend improvements in design standards to lower cost and improve work quality and facilitate maintenance.
• Investigate and resolve unusual design and field engineering problems by devising new approaches or applying existing criteria in novel ways.
• Ensure that effective methods and design/engineering techniques are used.
• Resolve project issues and problems.
• Provide technical guidance to co-workers.
• Contribute to a team environment by accomplishing related results in a cooperative and supportive manner.
• Ensure alignment between all disciplines that are involved with 3D CAD to prepare for model reviews and issue
• Perform other duties as assigned, keeping team on task and able to speak in meetings with project status updates.
• Help with business development group in estimating project cost and deliverables.
• Conduct quality QA/QC reviews of all drawings and drawing packages.
• Help develop/ensure completed drawing packages for IFA (Issued for Approval), IFB (Issued for Bid) and IFC (Issued for Construction) in accordance with the KM standard drawing format.
• Use the latest version of AutoCAD
• Strong understanding material nomenclature, specification, symbology & P&IDs.
• Utilize Company document management system (Blue Cielo Meridian system) or equivalent DM systems.
• Work as a team player with the Project Manager, Design Engineer and the Design team to develop various types of Construction Drawing Packages.
• Understand the function of measurement equipment and process piping.
• Strong understanding of terminology and acronyms of the industry while having the ability to incorporate into drawings and related work outputs.
• Ability to work on both As-built projects and Construction Projects simultaneously as needed.

Position Requirements and Skills:

• A minimum of ten years of electrical design experience in refinery, plant, tank terminals, and inbound/outbound rail, barge, and truck facilities is required.
• Knowledge and experience using Windows operating systems.
• Experience required utilizing AutoCAD software
• Must have good communication skills, written & verbal, work with minimal supervision, and simultaneously manage multiple projects to meet scheduled deadlines.
• Strong organizational skills are required, as well as the ability to prioritize work.
• Overtime occasionally may be required and expected as project deadlines require.
• Occasional travel to company facilities may be required, including both local and out-of-town locations
• Strong knowledge of Allen Bradley ControlLogix 1756 and Ethernet IP protocol a plus

Education:

• Associates degree or equivalent experience is required.