Electrical Systems Engineer

Qualification

Bachelors in electrical engineering

reports to

Principal Electrical Engineer South Pacific

Purpose of the position

- Ensure that all electrical systems provide adequate functionality at required reliability with minimum cost of ownership in compliance with internal and external regulations.
- Support the implementation of a strategy for sourcing engineering maintaining and troubleshooting electrical systems in a standardised way.
- Support the continuous improvement of assets work processes and people capabilities to maximize business profitability optimizing functionality reliability efficiency and lifecycle cost of electrical systems.

Geographical Area of responsibility

Australia & New Zealand but located in Vadodara Gujarat

Functional area of activity

Operation engineering installation maintenance and troubleshooting of electrical systems including:
- Power system analysis including fault load flow arc flash protection co-ordination motor start-up etc. using ETAP (Version 20.0 and over)-

High/Medium/Low voltage substations and switchgears
- HV & LV Motors

- Motor starters including VSD start/delta liquid resistance starter soft starter etc.

- Transformers

- Generators
- Battery & UPS system
- Lightning protection and earthing

- Electrical equipment in hazardous area (EEHA) AU/NZS familiarity.
- Online and offline electrical testing

RESPONSIBILITIES

Leadership

-Support RSP technical lead on various improvement objectives.

Operations

- Provide Electrical Systems technical support to the operating sites.

Maintenance

Provide technical advice to local maintenance teams for the sourcing replacement and troubleshooting of electrical systems. This includes:
- Standardisation of equipment and service providers

- Review of online and offline maintenance plans

- Review of online condition monitoring test results
- Assess the competence of maintenance personnel for electrical systems and ensure that gaps between the actual and the required competence are closed.
- Ensure that maintenance for electrical systems is adequate cost efficient and in compliance to Linde work processes

Projects / Modifications

Modifications:
- Design and/or review all major modifications to electrical systems.
- Ensure update of the related plant documents in document management system after modification
- Lead implementation of initiatives resulting from safety alerts

Provide input to:
- scope definition costing & schedule
- specification of respective equipment & services
- selection of vendors & service suppliers
- subcontract construction & installation activities
- testing & commissioning for major modifications of the existing electrical systems (including emergency situations).

For electrical systems of new plants or process units:
- ensure relevant requirements are defined and reviewed by members of the team
- ensure electrical system structures & vendors are compliant with Linde standards and specific project/site requirements
- participate in relevant project reviews and acceptance (incl. factory and site acceptance tests handover of systems)
- ensure maintenance teams are trained to operate maintain and troubleshoot the new systems
- ensure all necessary documents are handed over are of good quality and are stored in the Linde Gas Global Document Management system.

Troubleshooting

- Provide remote support to RSP electrical engineers where requested.

Reporting / performance management

- Review downtime reporting of electrical system failures at sites
- Review internal and external maintenance cost
- Review open actions for sites and provide direct support for site teams to close actions.
- Report implementation status of initiatives resulting from alerts Lessons from Reliability Events and directives

KEY INTERFACES

External interfaces

- Suppliers - Selection of suitable regional suppliers agree on technical scope/solution stage gate inspection to ensure quality.
- Service Providers (for maintenance & engineering) - Selection of suitable regional providers agree on scope ensure quality.
- Plant Suppliers - Define requirements review proposed design participate in stage gate reviews and plant acceptance.

Internal interfaces

- communicate directives alerts & initiatives. Support maintenance trouble-shooting etc
- Projects & Improvements - develop design concepts review EMOCs and provide expert input to improvement projects - eg support scope definition system design and design reviews.
- Opportunity & Project Development - define technical requirements specific to local site. Participate in stage gate reviews Lead handover and acceptance of electrical systems
- Procurement - Work with Procurement to ensure that all supply agreements are properly implemented when required.

REQUIRED SKILLS & QUALIFICATIONS

Key soft skills

- Ability to take right decision based on facts under pressure
- Establish and maintain collaborative authority with contractors/suppliers
- Ability to influence/convince cross functional teams including superiors
- Strong problem solving and project management skills.
- Good negotiation skills
- Good oral & written communication skills in English language to explain and document reasoning for decisions.

Key functional skills

- Experience in performing various power system studies using Etap (Version 20.0 or over).

- Experience in operating maintaining troubleshooting HV and LV electrical systems.
- Experience with electrical isolation and re-energisation.
- Detailed technical knowledge of relevant electrical equipment and systems.
- Background in electrical safety with knowledge of hazards involved in operation and maintenance of electrical systems.
- Detailed knowledge with relevant national and international codes and standards.
- Experience in root cause failure analysis
- Strong capability to facilitate or lead risk assessments and make risk based decisions
- Experience in designing and building electrical systems.
- Experience in design of lightning protection and earthing.

- Experience in hazardous area inspection design maintenance.

- Experience in performing power system studies (fault level load flow arc flash protection coordination) using Etap model.

- Read and understand electrical schematics.

- Experience with cable sizing and earth loop impedance calculations.