Electrical Engineer

Jobtailor; Morris (IL); On-site; USD 95,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor in Morris, IL seeks a senior Reliability Engineer with a BS in Electrical Engineering and 5+ years in refining, petrochemical, chemical process, or power generation settings.

You will lead reliability improvement efforts, define maintenance strategies, and collaborate with maintenance, process engineering, and production teams to improve asset availability and reduce life-cycle costs.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering and 5+ years in refining, petrochemical, chemical process, or power generation preferred.
• Strong interpersonal leadership skills and ability to communicate complex issues across the organization.
• Understanding of business drivers, reliability processes, and maintenance workflows.
• Familiarity with industry codes and standards (IEEE, ISA, NFPA, NEC).
• Instrumentation and measurement technology, low voltage distribution, and Safety Instrumented Systems.

Responsibilities

• Apply data analysis to develop engineering solutions improving plant reliability (capacity, quality, cost, regulatory compliance).
• Consult with site peers and across the company.
• Share best practices and improve asset availability and life-cycle costs across the site and company.
• Provide technical support in design, installation, and modifications to minimize life cycle cost.
• Develop equipment criteria, testing, and inspection plans; evaluate maintenance suppliers.
• Lead reliability improvement teams for equipment, processes, and safety systems.
• Implement Safety Instrumented Systems meeting availability requirements with PHAs translated into designs.
• Produce asset maintenance plans using preventive, predictive, and non-destructive testing methods.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Reliability engineering

Problem solving

Project coordination

Education

BS in Electrical Engineering

Tools

PLC programming

Instrumentation & controls

Job description

Responsibilities

• Apply data analysis techniques to develop engineering solutions to repetitive failures and other problems that adversely affect plant operations including capacity, quality, cost, and regulatory compliance issues
• Consult with peers at the site and across the company
• Serve as a resource and conduit to share best practices and leverage operating improvement opportunities across the site and company
• Provide technical support/expertise within your discipline in the design and installation stages of projects for new assets and modification of existing assets to minimize life cycle cost and maximize asset availability
• Participate in the development of design and installation specifications and commissioning plans
• Participate in the development of criteria for and evaluation of equipment and technical MRO suppliers and technical maintenance service providers, develop acceptance tests and inspection criteria
• Maintain awareness of emerging technology, assessing applicability to improve reliability and performance, or to reduce maintenance cost
• Lead or participate in incident investigations and root cause analysis
• Manage risk to the achievement of an organization’s strategic objectives in the areas of environmental health and safety, asset capability, quality, and production
• Provide input to a risk management plan that will anticipate reliability‑related and non‑reliability‑related risks that could adversely impact plant operations
• Systematically define, design, develop, monitor, and refine an asset maintenance plan that includes:
  1. Value‑added preventive maintenance tasks
  2. Effective utilization of predictive and other non‑destructive testing methodologies designed to identify and isolate inherent reliability problems
  3. Apply value analysis to repair/replace, repair/redesign, and make/buy decisions
• Provide technical support to production, maintenance, project, and process engineering groups
• Lead interdisciplinary reliability improvement teams to guide efforts to ensure reliability and maintainability of equipment, processes, utilities, controls and safety systems
• Implement Safety Instrumented Systems that meet availability requirements by translating Process Hazard Analysis requirements into technical design specifications and preventive/predictive maintenance plans

Requirements

• BS degree in Electrical Engineering with a minimum of 5 years relevant experience in the refining, petrochemical, chemical process, or power generation industries is preferred.
• Strong interpersonal leadership skills are critical due to the requirement for effective communication of complex issues across the organization as well as for mentoring and consensus building.
• The successful candidate must exhibit an understanding of business drivers, management of change requirements, reliability processes, and maintenance workflow.
• Basic understanding of industry codes and standards (i.e., IEEE, ISA, NFPA, NEC).
• Instrumentation and measurement technology.
• Low voltage power distribution and controls.
• Safety Instrumented System specification, design, and implementation.
• Analyzers and sample systems.
• PLC maintenance and programming.