Electrical Reliability Engineer 70155
Electrical Reliability Engineer 70155
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James Hardie Building Products Inc. is the North American leader in fiber cement home siding and exterior design solutions. Hardie products offer long lasting beauty and endless design possibilities with trusted protection and low maintenance. The company pioneered modern fiber cement building products and continues to invest in innovation to transform the industry. James Hardie is a highperformance organization with an unwavering commitment to Zero Harm. The company proudly employs a diverse workforce of over 3000 employees across operations in North America.
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This is an exciting opportunity for an individual with a solid electrical engineering maintenance and reliability background to assist in the development and application of James Hardies core maintenance and reliability strategies. The person in this role will be responsible for implementing the electrical power reliability program across our twelve US locations. This person will serve as our subject matter expert (SME) for electrical reliability and power distribution best practices.
The Electrical Reliability Engineer reports into the Corporate Director of HMOS Asset Management overseeing the US maintenance and reliability programs. This role will be a member of the Central HMOS Asset Management Team working with 9 other team members who drive continuous improvement and standards in all elements of maintenance and reliability. The position will be based out of one of our twelve US locations.
In order to achieve the Electrical Reliability Program objectives this person will collaborate with internal and external resources such as Corporate Engineering Corporate Construction Engineering Electrical Power Distribution Contractors Electrical Power Equipment Suppliers Corporate EHS Team Site Maintenance & Engineering Teams and Corporate Procurement. This role will drive standards train technical and nontechnical people develop programs maintain code compliance and ensure the safe operation and safe practices of our electrical systems. Additionally this role ensures quality preventative maintenance quality conditionbased maintenance quality predictive maintenance and use of the latest tools technologies and systems are being effectively utilized to optimize the life our assets with minimal downtime.
What Youll Do:
- Work with EHS and Engineering to ensure compliance to current OSHA / ANSI / and NEC safe works standards and practices for working with high and low voltage systems.
- Lead the Electrical Power Distribution Reliability Program for all US based sites. Assist the manufacturing operations with the of the reliability center maintenance activities necessary to eliminate unplanned asset failures.
- Develop annual outage standards and requirements for all electrical power distribution equipment.
- Apply the latest testing preventative maintenance and predictive maintenance programs to our power distribution equipment including transformers switchgear breakers cabling MCCs AC & DC drives and electric motors.
- Review capital projects and new construction projects related to electrical power distribution ensuring standards are applied during equipment selection installation and commissioning.
- Ensure our records and drawings are up to date and properly stored. This includes keeping electrical oneline diagrams coordination studies equipment nameplate data and arc flash requirements current and up to date on the latest standards.
- Develop recommended spare parts and network shared parts across all sites.
- Lead root cause analysis events in the identification and elimination of production losses and high maintenance costs associated with asset failures.
- Develop engineering solutions to repetitive failures and all other problems that adversely affect plant operations. These problems include capacity quality cost or regulatory compliance issues.
- Assist plant engineers with the analysis of asset utilization overall equipment effectiveness remaining useful life and other parameters that define the operating condition reliability and costs of assets.
- Review and apply statistical methods to identify reliability trends
- Establish and track reliability metrics
What Youll Bring:
- Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering is desired. Equivalent experience and training with 2year associate degree 2year technical degree and/or applicable military training in the electrical field may be considered.
- 5or more years experience in an industrial continuous operating 24/7 manufacturing environment in the electrical field.
- Experience shall include 12KV15KV Power Distribution Medium Voltage 2.2kV 4.2KV Motor Controls One Line Diagrams Coordination Studies Transformers and Breakers.
- Ability to read electrical schematics and oneline diagrams
- Knowledge and Application Experience of Electrical Standards such as IEEE NEMA NETA NEC (National Electrical Code) and NFPA 70E (ArcFlash).
- Experience with computer maintenance management systems (CMMS) Hexagon or equivalent
- Strong communication (written oral and interpersonal) skills
- Ability to develop and write clear standards and specifications.
- Ability to develop training material and transfer knowledge to others.
- Ability to lead and be part of cross functional teams
- Advanced knowledge in reliability centered maintenance failure modes & effects analysis criticality analysis
- Technology certifications recommended: Thermography (IR) Ultrasound Emissions Motor Circuit Testing Transformer Oil Analysis
- Reliability certifications recommended: CMRP CRL or CRP
- Demonstrated ability to diagnosis and correct opportunities to improve mean time between failures of assets
- Advanced skills in basic personal computer software (Microsoft applications)
- Ability to travel to our twelve US locations.
Overall travel can be 50 with the majority weekly Monday through Friday. On certain occasions while supporting projects or annual outages travel could be multiple weeks in a row and travel on weekends could be required.
What Youll Receive:
At James Hardie we recognize that our success depends on our people. Weve worked hard to build a generous and competitive benefits program that demonstrates our commitment to our employees.
As of the date of this posting a good faith estimate of the current pay scale for this position is$95k to $120k.Placement in the range depends on several factors such as experience skills geography and internal equity and may change over time. This position qualifies forbenefitsand you will be eligible to participate in a bonus plan.
Benefits available include:
- Comprehensive lowcost copay medical insurance; as well as vision insurance benefits for every 30 hour fulltime employee. Insurance starts on day one!
- Life insurance
- Shortterm and longterm disability insurance
- 401(k) Retirement plan that will match 100 of employees saved dollars up to the first 6 of your salary
- Paid Time Off
- 11 paid holidays per year paid vacation including Jury Duty and bereavement leave
- Paid sick leave
- Wellness Program Employee Assistance Program and Parental Leave
- Tuition reimbursement
- Employee Stock Purchase Program
- VisitJH Benefits At A Glance 2025to learn more about our benefits.
James Hardie will comply with any applicable state and local laws regarding employee leave benefits including but not limited to providing time off pursuant to the Colorado Healthy Families and Workplaces Act in accordance with its plans and policies.
Applications are being accepted on an ongoing basis.
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James Hardie Building Products Inc. is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color gender sex age national origin religion sexual orientation gender identity/expression genetic information veterans status marital status pregnancy disability or any other basis protected by law.
Employment Type
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