Job Title: Senior Electrical Engineer

Location: Baytown, TX or Beaumont, TX (On-Site)

Job type: Contract

Roles & Responsibilities:

• The Electrical Engineer, as part of the Engineering Services department at a major integrated petrochemical manufacturing facility, is responsible for the optimization, troubleshooting, and design of a wide variety of electrical equipment.

• This involves time in the field ensuring that the installed electrical equipment contributes to safe, environmentally sound, reliable, and profitable operations.

• Maintain close contact with operations, maintenance, engineering, and project development to identify and implement electrical equipment repairs and reliability improvements

• Design and specify electrical equipment such as motors, breakers, relays, generators, substations, buses, starters, transformers, and other industrial electrical equipment (480V to 230kV)

• Coordinate projects for new or replacement equipment among engineering, maintenance, and operations

• Commissioning, startup assistance, and support of electrical systems with maintenance personnel

• Serve as an electrical technology expert liaison between project engineers, plant maintenance, and operations personnel

• Supports and interfaces with business teams to maintain and improve electrical reliability while reducing maintenance costs.

• Participates in screening, optimization, basic design preparation for electric power systems

• Develops project scoping, design and detail specifications for electric power systems

• Monitors Engineering Quality Control and leads contractor's electrical work to ensure consistency with project specifications and guidelines

• Support preparation of Design Basis Memorandums and develop Specifications

• Provides technical support and services to operating facilities

• Performs power systems simulations and analyses, including load flow, short circuit, motor starting and reacceleration, arc flash, transient stability and relay coordination

• Updates Company practices and specifications

• Applies customer's Global Practices, Design Practices, General Information and Instructions, codes and standards in support of projects during the detailed design phase

• Participates actively in the Electrical Community of Practice

• Participates in incident investigations in support of assets

• Performs Risk Assessments and develops Equipment Strategies in support of assets

• Manages electrical area classification for assets within the facility supported

Skills and Qualifications:

• Bachelor of Science or Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering

• Demonstrated experience in petrochemical industry with power systems as an Electrical Engineer

• 10+ years' experience preferred.

Preferred Qualifications/ Experience:

• Ability to work with a wide variety of personnel at different levels of engineering, design, maintenance, and management.

• Ability to work with internal customers as well as suppliers and repair facilities of electrical equipment.

• Good interpersonal skills

• Ability to communicate effectively and clearly in both written and verbal form for the purpose of instructing others in technical matters and obtaining cooperation from various personnel.

• Problem solving / troubleshooting of electrical systems.

• Knowledge of Electrical Safety standards and Area Electrical Classification standards (API, NFPA, NEC, and NETA)

• Knowledge of SKM Modeling, System Studies, and Coordination.

• Willing to travel domestically or internationally in support of electrical equipment construction or repairs.

• Work experience in petrochemical production units and awareness of surroundings from a safety and environmental point of view.