Electrical Engineer: Reliability, Projects & Controls

Packaging Corporation of America; Mooresville (NC); On-site; USD 86,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Three weeks paid vacation

Health, dental & vision coverage

401(k) with employer matching

Job summary

Packaging Corporation of America (PCA) is hiring for an Electrical Engineer to support multiple mill roles at PCA locations in the United States, including the Mooresville area. The position involves safety, reliability, project execution, and process control responsibilities across maintenance and capital projects.

The role offers growth opportunities in electrical reliability, project engineering, and process control engineering with competitive compensation and benefits.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, electrical engineering technology or related field.
• 0-4 years of experience in electrical engineering.
• Must be authorized to work in the U.S.
• Must have valid driver's license.
• Experience using AutoCAD, Microsoft Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Word, and Project.

Responsibilities

• Work safely and support mill safety, environmental, quality, productivity, and electrical reliability expectations across assigned maintenance areas.
• Provide technical direction, troubleshooting support, and problem-solving assistance for electrical equipment, systems, and maintenance issues.
• Develop, manage, and improve electrical maintenance strategies, preventive and predictive maintenance programs, equipment tracking, rebuild programs, and documentation.
• Support daily, monthly, and annual outage work through planning, scheduling, contractor coordination, training, spare parts planning, and field support.
• Use equipment history, repair costs, root cause failure analysis, and operating data to reduce downtime, improve planning, and increase electrical equipment reliability.
• Additional duties as assigned by management.
• Develop project scopes, budgets, schedules, material requirements, equipment specifications, vendor coordination plans, and startup support plans.
• Coordinate contractors, vendors, maintenance, operations, engineering, and other mill resources to support safe, efficient, on-time project execution.
• Analyze electrical processes, equipment performance, repair history, and cost information to identify improvement opportunities and support reliable, cost-effective operations.
• Additional duties as assigned by management.
• Work safely and support mill safety, environmental, quality, productivity, and control system reliability expectations across assigned process control areas.
• Provide technical direction, troubleshooting support, programming assistance, and control system solutions for operations, maintenance, engineering, and hourly electrical personnel.
• Coordinate the planning, programming, maintenance, and improvement of mill PLC, distributed control, quality control, HMI, and related process control systems.
• Analyze process and control system performance to reduce costs, improve quality, minimize process variation, increase production, and improve equipment reliability.
• Support process improvement and capital projects through system design, installation, startup, technology implementation, control tuning, and collaboration with operations, maintenance, and engineering teams.

Education

Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, electrical engineering technology or related field

Tools

AutoCAD

Microsoft Excel

Outlook

PowerPoint

Word

Project

Job description

Packaging Corporation of America (PCA) is hiring for an Electrical Engineer to support multiple mill roles at PCA locations in the United States, including the Mooresville area. The position involves safety, reliability, project execution, and process control responsibilities across maintenance and capital projects.

The role offers growth opportunities in electrical reliability, project engineering, and process control engineering with competitive compensation and benefits.