Electrical Engineer

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ELECTRICAL ENGINEER

Job Role Summary
Seeking an experienced Electrical Engineer to join the organization in the Corpus Christi, TX area. The Electrical Engineer will be located at the chemical plant in Gregory, TX and will be responsible for the optimization, troubleshooting, and design of a wide variety of electrical equipment to ensure safe, environmentally sound, reliable, and profitable operations. The Electrical Engineer will be responsible for supporting various business units with focus on non-routine and medium to long range objectives including, but not limited to, the following: troubleshooting complex process unit/electrical problems, leading improvement initiatives, and providing technical/engineering reviews.

Job Role Responsibilities
• Base Plant Support - Work with Operations, Maintenance, Engineering, and Process Technical groups to support base operations and serve as an electrical technology expert liaison for the site.

• Provide engineering assistance to Maintenance and Process Technical as requested in troubleshooting and equipment repair efforts
• Identify and communicate vulnerabilities to responsible business teams
• Support risk assessments, technical evaluations, and propose cost-effective solutions to vulnerabilities, or support acceptance
• Participate in incident investigations, root cause failure analysis (RCFA), and equipment bad actor analysis
• Leverage equipment strategies, known vulnerabilities, bad actors, and maintenance records/history to drive development of annual maintenance worklists, turnaround worklists, and/or capital projects for the electrical equipment class
• Participate in turnarounds, investigation/improvement teams, and incident damage assessment and recovery
• Assist in developing maintenance/operating procedures and technician training

• Projects - Support projects for new or replacement equipment through interfaces with Engineering, Maintenance, Operations, and Project Development teams.

• Provide technical support for front-end development, cost estimation, design, construction, commissioning, and startup for projects, change packages, and turnarounds
• Design and specify electrical equipment such as motors, breakers, protection relays, generators, substations, cables, motor starters, transformers, and other industrial electrical equipment (120V to 138kV)

• Reliability - Drive improvement in site electrical equipment class health and reliability

• Serve as an electrical equipment champion for the site
• Support reliability analysis & equipment class strategic improvements (e.g., long- term improvement plans, obsolescence plans)
• Support opportunities for step-out technology assessment and deployment
• Support interface with key third parties (e.g., external electrical utility company)
• Networking & Above Site Activities – Participate actively in the ExxonMobil electrical discipline network, external peer assists, and represent site electrical concerns/interests in broader site and/or network initiatives.

Preferred Technical Knowledge, Skills and Behaviors

• Ability to work with a wide variety of personnel at different levels of engineering, design, maintenance, operations, and management.
• Ability to work with internal customers as well as equipment suppliers and third party service companies.
• Ability to communicate effectively and clearly in both written and verbal form for the purpose of instructing/educating others in technical matters and obtaining cooperation from various personnel.
• Strong analytical and communication skills
• Willing to travel domestically and/or internationally in support of electrical equipment construction or repairs.
• Good interpersonal skills.
• Knowledge of electrical safety, design, and testing standards, including electrical hazardous area classification standards (e.g., NFPA, NEC, NETA, API).
• Knowledge and experience in performing power system modeling (e.g., SKM Power Tools), electrical power system studies, and protective relay coordination.
• Prefer candidate to have experience in chemical manufacturing and polymer production operations.

Job Requirements/Desired Qualifications

• 5 years of work experience in petrochemical production/manufacturing facilities with a general understanding of personnel safety, environmental, and process safety risks
• Must have Work Authorization (Green Card or US Citizenship) to work in the US
• B.S. in Electrical Engineering; Masters candidates will also be considered
• Strong leadership skills, self-motivated, shows initiative
• Enjoys working in a fast-pace environment with ability to plan and coordinate competing work activities and priorities
• Ability to work effectively in multicultural team

Company DescriptionTaylor Technical Services began business in 1977. Since then, we have grown to become one of the largest suppliers of Engineering personnel in the Houston/Gulf Coast area and Alaska. We pride ourselves in having recruiters and account managers that have experience and have worked in the oil & gas engineering industry.

Specialties: Cad Drafters, Electrical Designers, Instrument Designers, Structural Designers, Piping Designers, Electrical Engineers, Instrument Engineers, Structural Engineers, Mechanical Engineers, Pipe Stress Engineers, EH&S, QA/QC, Procurement, Project Controls, Document Control, AdministrativeCompany DescriptionTaylor Technical Services began business in 1977. Since then, we have grown to become one of the largest suppliers of Engineering personnel in the Houston/Gulf Coast area and Alaska. We pride ourselves in having recruiters and account managers that have experience and have worked in the oil & gas engineering industry.\r
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Specialties: Cad Drafters, Electrical Designers, Instrument Designers, Structural Designers, Piping Designers, Electrical Engineers, Instrument Engineers, Structural Engineers, Mechanical Engineers, Pipe Stress Engineers, EH&S, QA/QC, Procurement, Project Controls, Document Control, Administrative

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