Senior Staff Engineer, Electrical

About the role

We are seeking a Senior Staff Engineer, Electrical to join our Calcasieu Pass Facility Team in Louisiana. This role reports to the Director, Operations Engineering and will be responsible for supporting the development and progressing the Ready for Operations (RFO) activities, ensuring a seamless transition of the facility from EPC to the operations phase.

The successful candidate shall have technical expertise in the Electrical Engineering discipline with in-depth understanding of motors, transformers, switchgear, and other electrical equipment. The incumbent shall also be familiar with associated industry standards, guidelines, and codes. A working knowledge of general plant equipment in the Oil & Gas industry is key to the successful performance of this job. The role requires excellent written and oral communication skills in English, the ability to produce coherent, high-quality documents, and the capacity to be a self-starter who can develop conceptual ideas with minimal guidance.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a resident company Technical Expert, providing advice and guidance on Electrical system engineering issues.
• Provide day-to-day Electrical systems support to the Maintenance & Operations teams to ensure continued operability of plant equipment.
• Provide advanced diagnostic support to allow rapid production recovery in the event of equipment failure and forced plant outages.
• Lead Root Cause Failure Analysis (RCFA) exercises and provide technical summaries (with causes and recommendations) to concerned parties.
• Provide interpretation and evaluation services for analysis and recommendations from the Reliability Technicians on predictive programs.
• Support HAZOPs, LOPAs, and other Process Hazard Analysis (PHA).
• Support the Maintenance team for Turnaround planning and execution.
• Support availability tracking and improve the overall reliability for plant equipment.
• Evaluate workflow processes, identify critical spares, and define spare parts storage and preservation requirements for Electrical systems throughout the plant.
• Provide intermediate-level Reliability Engineering support to the Operations Team, focusing on:
  • Root Cause Failure Analysis (RCFA) using relevant techniques for plant equipment and/or processes.
  • Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) to drive fine-tuning and improvements in existing Maintenance practices for a cost-effective, safe, and robust Maintenance strategy.

Requirements

• Minimum Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering.
• A Professional Engineering License is preferred.
• A minimum of five to ten (10-15) years’ experience working in an engineering capacity with Electrical equipment in an industrial setting, in engineering or operations. Supervisory experience is considered an asset.
• Oil and Gas experience is required, with preference in LNG applications. Petrochemical, NGL, cryogenic natural gas processing, or other hydrocarbon processing experience may be acceptable.
• Extensive knowledge of motors, gas turbines (Frames & Aero-derivatives), and compressors.

Skills

• Knowledge of CMMS Systems.
• Power system analysis.
• Proficiency with RCFA tools for conducting failure analysis.