Electrical Maintenance Specialist
Catalyst Recruiting, Inc
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Job summary
Catalyst Recruiting, Inc is seeking a Senior Electrical Maintenance Specialist to support multi-site industrial facilities in the Austin/Round Rock region. The role focuses on electrical maintenance, reliability, and high voltage system troubleshooting across 13.8kV equipment and substations.
The candidate will lead maintenance programs, oversee regional plant electrical work, and travel up to 30% to support multiple sites. A strong background in heavy industry power and reliability is essential.
Qualifications
- Minimum 5 years in industrial electrical maintenance at 5kV–15kV.
- Experience with heavy industry power, chemical plants.
- Journeyman license handy.
- Associates in electrical engineering tech or similar required.
Responsibilities
- Lead and supervise maintenance and reliability work for power/distribution at industrial facilities.
- Work with medium to high-voltage systems across multiple plants in the region, with travel up to 30%.
- Work independently on-site and know when to ask for assistance.
- Develop and implement maintenance and reliability programs for power distribution, substations, transformers, breakers, switchgear, relay systems, UPS.
- Support shutdown planning and electrical tasks.
- Perform root cause analysis and corrective action plans.
- Conduct oil analysis, IR thermography, discharge and power analysis as part of reliability programs.
Skills
Education
Job description
A multi-site chemical/manufacturing/distribution company needs two regional electrical field engineers/specialists to work with multiple operating plants in a region on electrical, power system, electrical reliability and troubleshooting.
- At Least 5 years experience with industrial/operations electrical maintenance 5Kv - 15Kv
- Work in/around active operating plants and substations (safely; not just "hot" work)
- Lead/supervise maintenance/reliability work for power/distribution at industrial facilities.
- Work with medium to high-voltage systems at 3-5 plants in a region (potentially up to 30% travel)
- Work independently at site, including knowing when to request
- Work with all aspects of developing, implementing maintenance and reliability programs:
- Power distribution, substations, transformers, etc, work
- The “usual” breakers, switchgear, relay systems, battery/UPS
- Work with massive 13.8kv motors, compressors, pumps, etc.
- Reliability programs – oil analysis, IR thermography, discharge and power analysis, etc
- Root cause analysis and corrective action plans
- Assist with shutdown planning and electrical work
- Extensive experience with 13.8kv; up to 138kv useful but not required for consideration
- Journeyman license is handy.
- At least 5 years of experience maint/reliability with 5kv – 15kv in industrial setting
- Associates in electrical engineering Tech/similar required.
- Required: a lot of current experience in heavy industry, power, chemical, etc, plants.
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