Lead Engineer - Electrical

Responsibilities

• Provide technical support to field teams for high-voltage distribution equipment and high-voltage motors/generators.
• Solve electrical equipment issues and coordinate technical response across Air Products facilities.
• Supervise vendor shop repairs of high-voltage motors and equipment to verify quality and workmanship.
• Document critical work with repair reports to support traceability and long-term equipment history.
• Develop engineered solutions to eliminate recurring electrical issues.
• Improve plant reliability by trending performance data and updating maintenance procedures.
• Lead and participate in root-cause analyses (RCA) and drive corrective actions to closure.
• Develop and complete predictive and preventive maintenance strategies for critical electrical assets.
• Apply internal and national standards when specifying, maintaining, and repairing electrical equipment.
• Review and approve engineering documents for plant upgrades and reliability projects.
• Train, coach, and mentor technicians and operations staff on safe operation and preventive maintenance of electrical systems.
• Ensure all work aligns with Safety and Environmental standards and supports a strong safety culture.
• Maintain company electrical safe work practice standards aligned with industry standards and recommended procedures.
• Perform power system studies, including motor starting/voltage drop, short-circuit, arc-flash, and load-flow analyses.
• Program protective relays using settings developed from system studies and validate performance through event analysis.

Requirements

• Minimum 10 years of electrical engineering experience, including operations and maintenance in large industrial plants.
• In-depth experience with SKM PowerTools for Windows engineering software.
• In-depth experience with SEL and Multilin protective relays, including programming and event analysis.
• Experience specifying and supporting HV substations and associated equipment (transformers; HV/LV motors and generators; motor control circuits; VFDs; station batteries; and UPS systems).
• Experience in the operation and maintenance of synchronous generators and the associated control and protection systems.
• Experience with NERC standards and compliance for a generating facility.
• Ability to travel in North America (15–20%).

Preferred Qualifications

• Active Texas PE license.
• Safety training certification such as NFPA CESCP.
• Working knowledge of industrial process control systems such as PLC’s, DCS systems and associated instrumentation.