Electrical Reliability & Process Controls Engineer

Packaging Corporation of America

Lake Forest (IL)

On-site

USD 86,000 - 90,000

Full time

4 days ago

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Job summary

Packaging Corporation of America (PCA) is seeking an Electrical Engineer to fill one of three potential titles based on mill needs: Electrical Reliability Engineer, Electrical Project Engineer, or Process Controls Engineer. Responsibilities cover safety, troubleshooting, maintenance strategies, project execution, and process control systems across PCA mills.

The role requires a Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering or related field, 0–4 years of experience, U.S.

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering 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 Auto Cad, 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.
Work safely and support mill safety, environmental, quality, productivity, and project execution expectations across assigned electrical projects.
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.
Additional duties as assigned by management.