Senior Electrical Reliability Engineer

What You Will Do

• Project & Operations Support
• Demonstrate safe work practices
• Work as a liaison between Maintenance, Operations, and Engineering teams
• Work as a strategic partner in the electrical and instrumentation department primarily in failure prevention and long-term support
• Provide technical assistance to production, reliability and quality groups as needed to solve equipment and process-related problems and develop methods to improve processes
• Aid E&I Maintenance Supervisors and Planners with technical maintenance issues
• Optimize manufacturing processes by investigating and eliminating root causes of equipment failures
• MOC Champion to review, lead, or assist as needed
• Reliability
• Work with condition monitoring program to reduce RED’s list (Vibration, IR, etc.)
• Work with system analysis tools and vendors to better the system power quality
• Support site power system study and model updates (Relay Protection, Easy Power Model, etc.)
• Help to establish maintenance best practices
• Perform BDA/RCA/RCFA/5-Whys/defect elimination on contributors of yield, utilization, and capacity losses due to failures attributed to equipment, processes, etc.
• Identify and resolve chronic failures (bad actors) through BDA/RCA/RCFA/5-Whys/defect elimination
• Establish and monitor predictive maintenance program (PM Optimization)
• Calculate asset life-cycle and costs on bad actors
• Create and Update Assets within JDE (as needed)
• Create low voltage PM scope for major outage annually (includes MCC, emergency generators, switchgear, UPS systems, transformers, and battery backups)
• Work with electrical and instrumentation crews to improve work flow follow up
• Maintain transformer health assessments and optimizations
• Develop/Update Switching Orders – Standard/Non-Standard LOTO
• Leadership
• Assist in the management of the Predictive and Preventative Maintenance programs including vibration coverage through the mill, plant tank integrity, pressure vessel integrity, and pre-post failure reports
• Work as a strategic partner in the electrical and instrumentation department primarily in failure prevention and long-term support
• Weekend Duty and overtime as needed – Must call in to weekend status update meetings and provide onsite support as required
• Manage capital projects as required
• Facilitate Reliability Steering Teams

Key Competencies & Attributes

• Actively seeks and allocates appropriate decision-making authority or task responsibility to appropriate individuals based on their abilities, availability, motivation, and development needs; considers potential positive and negative impact, business unit priorities, organizational values, and the opportunity to enhance others’ knowledge and skills
• Possesses strong troubleshooting skills
• Understands power distribution systems and major components
• Understands protection and coordinated trip settings
• Prior experience with electrical diagnostics – IR Thermography, partial discharge, power quality analysis
• Prior experience with medium and low voltage drives
• Create relevant options for addressing problems and opportunities that will achieve desired outcomes
• Systematically evaluates business opportunities, targeting those with the greatest potential for producing positive business results

What You Will Need

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering required
• 7+ years of experience in engineering, preferably in the paper industry and preferably reliability engineering experience
• Proficient in Easy Power, Microsoft Office Word and Excel
• AutoCAD experience preferred
• Demonstrated ability to effectively work with vendors, managers, and production employees to achieve goals
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Capable of managing Process Safety Management programs
• Familiar with and have a good working knowledge of construction and repair codes (NEC, NFPA 70E, IEEE, IEC, NEMA)
• Knowledgeable with maintenance best practices (vibration analysis, oil analysis, etc.) preferred
• Must be capable of understanding and troubleshooting complex industrial systems and equipment
• Understanding of LEAN manufacturing and Continuous Improvement (CI) concepts preferred
• Professional Engineering license preferred
• High speed manufacturing environment, sustained exposure to high frequency noises, multiple hours standing, walking on concrete surfaces
• Personal Protective Equipment required in mill environment
• Dirt, noise, odor, and temperature extremes
• Climbing stairs, ladders, and scaffolding
• Exposure to hazardous chemicals used in manufacturing process