I/E Engineer

Duration: 12 months
Schedule: 9/80
Location: Freeport, TX

About the role

This opportunity offers the chance to provide technical engineering support for electrical and instrumentation systems within a chemical plant environment. The role is focused on reliability, regulatory compliance, process safety management, and lifecycle support across instrumentation, electrical distribution, control systems, and safety instrumented systems. This position plays a key part in maintaining safe, efficient, and compliant operations while supporting turnaround activities, root cause failure analysis, and management of change.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical engineering support for electrical and instrumentation systems in a chemical plant environment.
• Maintain reliability, regulatory compliance, and process safety management.
• Support lifecycle management of instrumentation, electrical distribution, control systems, and safety instrumented systems.
• Assist in turnaround activities, root cause failure analysis, and management of change.
• Develop preventive maintenance strategies, lifecycle plans, and equipment obsolescence plans for critical plant assets.
• Review, interpret, and maintain loop diagrams, P&IDs, electrical one-line diagrams, datasheets, specifications, and engineering documentation.
• Support safety instrumented systems, functional testing, and validation activities in accordance with IEC 61511.
• Collaborate with operations, maintenance, reliability, and process safety teams.

Requirements

• BS in Electrical Engineering or a closely related engineering discipline from an accredited university.
• 3+ years of relevant instrumentation and electrical engineering experience in a chemical, petrochemical, or refining environment.
• Demonstrated technical ownership of plant systems.
• Experience supporting highly hazardous chemical environments and process safety management activities.
• Experience contributing to turnaround planning, field engineering oversight, commissioning, and pre-startup safety reviews.
• Experience with root cause failure analysis, corrective action tracking, and engineering problem-solving.

Skills

• Strong understanding of instrumentation principles including measurement, control loops, PID tuning, flow, pressure, temperature, level instruments, and valve sizing.
• Knowledge of electrical systems including power distribution, transformers, motor controls, MCCs, VFDs, UPS systems, battery systems, and grounding systems.
• Working knowledge of DCS platforms and/or PLC-based control systems.
• Experience with SAP PM, calibration management systems, and engineering document control.
• Knowledge of NEC, NFPA 70E, hazardous area classification requirements, and ISA standards relevant to chemical plant environments.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• Professional Engineer (PE) registration.
• ISA CCST or equivalent instrument certification.
• PSM / OSHA 1910.119 experience in a highly hazardous chemical environment.