Electrical Engineer

SUMMARY

Responsible for electrical engineering activities to maximize safety quality and productivity in the daily

maintenance of plant equipment in order to drive continuous improvements to equipment availability and

throughput.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

Responsible for electrical safety design modifications and improvements to equipment and facilities.

Responsible for electrical safety investigations and corrective actions.

Use FMECA process for foundation of maintenance best practices to develop PM PDM or other techniques as

needed to prevent unscheduled downtime.

Responsible for developing documenting and improving preventive maintenance programs in order to support

the improvement of equipment availability and throughput.

Provide technical support and troubleshooting for equipment failures and loss of production. Assist maintenance

and provide technical guidance required to return equipment to operation so as to minimize downtime and lost

production. Provide on call support.

Supervise and schedule daily work for plant electronic technicians.

Responsible for analyzing production delay data for establishing and documenting or modifying preventive

maintenance tasks. Generate continuous improvement projects based on production delay data.

Prepare and review equipment failure/root cause analysis reports and determine/evaluate corrective action items

and the impact of corrective action items to the preventive maintenance programs.

Develop cost justifications for improvement projects and corrective actions.

Develop work orders to detail work requests needed to implement improvements projects or corrective actions.

Follow-up and audit to ensure proper completion.

Coordinate outside contractor work activities with maintenance personnel or production personnel as required to

minimize impacts to cost and production.

Responsible for critical spare parts assessments and parts standardization.

Responsible for developing and implementing standard operating procedures training and skill development for

electricians and electronic technicians.

Determine and install appropriate performance metrics that will promote long-term continuous improvement

programs consistent with the operating objectives of the department.

Provides support for problem resolution to facilitate faster improvements and improved working relationships.

Perform Project Engineering duties.

Fill in for the Supervisors or Department Manager as required.

Performs other related duties as assigned.

ADDITIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES

Work with planning to prepare coordinate and maintain schedules for extended production outages and major maintenance work.

Work with maintenance supervisors and department managers to determine priorities and establish schedules.

Support the management and maintaining of the information required for utilizing the plant computerized maintenance management system (CMMS).

Work with maintenance craftsmen and operations to resolve equipment failures.

QUALIFICATIONS

COMPETENCIES

Ability to provide leadership.

Expertise knowledge and training in engineering and maintenance.

Extensive knowledge and training in product manufacturing.

General knowledge of manufacturing processes involved in manufacturing of forged or flat rolled metal products.

Excellent interpersonal skills General traits such as action oriented conflict manager decision maker comprehensive listener time manager and positive attitude.

Fulfill the roles of facilitator coach mentor counselor and communicator.

Computer skills and the ability to advance those skills as required.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE

Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering.

Formal training or experience with Preventive and Predictive Maintenance programs.

Maintenance Engineering or Maintenance Supervisor position with a minimum of 1-3 years of proven experience.

SPECIAL SKILLS

Power Electronics (SCR/Thyristor communication ripple calculations)

Harmonic & Power Quality

Transformer Testing & Maintenance

IR Scanning - Electrical & Mechanical Equipment

DC Power System Design & Maintenance

Battery and UPS Storage Maintenance

ADDITIONAL NOTES

Proof of US citizenship nationality and/or permanent resident status in order to comply with all applicable export and import laws and regulations.

PHYSICAL DIMENSIONS

PHYSICAL DEMANDS THE PHYSICAL DEMANDS DESCRIBED HERE ARE REPRESENTATIVE OF THOSE THAT MUST BE MET BY AN EMPLOYEE TO SUCCESSFULLY PERFORM THE ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS OF THIS JOB. REASONABLE ACCOMMODATIONS MAY BE MADE TO ENABLE INDIVIDUALS WITH DISABILITIES TO PERFORM THE ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS.

Ability to work in an industrial surrounding.

WORK ENVIRONMENT THE WORK ENVIRONMENT CHARACTERISTICS DESCRIBED HERE ARE REPRESENTATIVE OF THOSE AN EMPLOYEE ENCOUNTERS WHILE PERFORMING THE ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS OF THIS JOB. REASONABLE ACCOMMODATIONS MAY BE MADE TO ENABLE INDIVIDUALS WITH DISABILITIES TO PERFORM THE ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS.

Industrial plants and Office.