- Job# 240718EE – Electrical Reliability Engineer – Pulp and Paper
- Advertised Location: United States
- Industry: Pulp and Paper
- Wage: $83,000 - $125,000 / Year salary, benefits, and relocation assistance. Salary and benefits commensurate with experience.
- Education Required: Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering or equivalent technical degree
- Years’ Experience Required: 5+ years of experience of practicing electrical engineering in an industrial environment. Pulp and Paper industry experience is preferred.
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Description:
The Electrical Reliability Engineer in Minnesota initiates, design, develop, optimize and problem solve manufacturing processes in a manner that meets safety and performance expectations. The Electrical Engineer for this role will provide guidance in design, development, optimization and implementation of PLC, motion control and machine safety systems. Candidates must have expertise across multiple technologies and will have a demonstrated ability to effectively interface with a broad range of team members. The incumbent reports to the Engineering Team Leader and receives direction in the form of specific project objectives. Key customers include Product Supply Leadership, the Operations and Maintenance asset teams, a cross functional engineering support team, and staff capital project teams.
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering or equivalent technical degree
- 5+ years of experience of practicing electrical engineering in an industrial environment. Pulp and Paper industry experience is preferred.
- Ability to work with local electricity providers and the local authorities having jurisdiction.
- Candidate must have previous experience with - 480V and 2300V equipment, including power delivery equipment (transformers, switchboards, panel boards, motor starters, and drives).
- Computer literate, including a strong background in MS Office.
- Determining plant loading and load studies.
- Electrical distribution system inspections, outages, and recovery
- Excellent interpersonal skills – conflict management, coaching, feedback, and problem solving.
- Experience in a packaging or other manufacturing environment.
- Must be assertive and have a strong work ethic
- Must be authorized to work in the U.S.
- Must have strong attention to detail and good decision-making skills.
- Strong knowledge of the National Electrical Code and of NPFA-70E, Electrical Safety in the Workplace.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills and the ability to influence and persuade others.
- Working with consulting engineers.
Responsibilities:
- Support mill through use of established electrical maintenance, reliability, and engineering best practices and processes.
- Support bottom line profit and loss improvement in all areas by analyzing electrical maintenance processes for cost reduction, quality, and efficiency improvement.
- Provide technical support for efficient troubleshooting and or problem-solving activities and electrical repair to maximize efficiencies and limit downtime.
- Plan, develop, coordinate, and direct assigned engineering projects to a successful completion by utilizing existing resources, writing appropriation requests, meeting the monetary budget, conducting project design reviews, communicating project specifications, reporting out progress and results, working across departments, effectively utilizing internal resources, and securing outside consultants when needed, developing prototypes, and providing project documentation.
- Perform research, design, and development of electrical maintenance processes, including production flow, assembly methods, and production equipment.
- Participate in mill’s improvement projects, transformation efforts, as well as promoting safety
- Monitor sites and procedures to confirm that all operations are in compliance with corporate regulations.
- Lead electrical maintenance resources, initiatives, and strategic plans and be accountable for performance of electrical systems and assets.
- Identify electrical maintenance opportunities and propose projects to address them to positively impact the mill.
- Coordinates the manufacturing launch of new/revised products and processes, including establishing goals, training team members, and evaluating results.
- Coordinate all activities associated with deployment of approved projects including training line staff, providing hand-on support, and conducting post-deployment maintenance.
- Conduct assessment of or respond to electrical process improvement requests. Such requests may include evaluating effective implementation of electrical maintenance quality criteria, improvement of existing processes and infrastructure, crew, and management training needs, and/or testing or launching of new technologies and processes.
- Collect data resulting from investigations and perform/obtain analyses up-date. Provide report with recommendations and conclusions.
- Building electrical maintenance strategies and execution plans that will continually improve the electrical reliability of operations and provide a more competitive position in key operating parameters such as safety, environmental, product quality, productivity, and cost.
- Ensure production crew and management has adequate training in regard to assigned project and equipment.
- Knows and follows policies and procedures of the company, shares information that would benefit other members of the team and finds ways to improve the delivery of service to our customers.
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