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Come Join an Inclusive TeamThis role supports our Edison plant operation and reliability improvement efforts. Working in a team environment, it carries responsibility for implementing reliability best practices, developing and optimizing preventive maintenance tasks, and supporting maintenance activities. The position interacts with other technical groups on site (process engineering, maintenance, and capital project groups), corporate technical networks and peers, and vendors/suppliers as needed to resolve problems and improve plant reliability and performance.
A Day in the Life Provide day-to-day support and expertise to maintenance craft and operations for troubleshooting instrument and electrical issues
Monitor equipment performance and make improvement recommendations
Apply data analysis techniques to develop engineering solutions to repetitive failures and other problems that adversely affect plant operations including capacity, quality, cost, safety, environmental, and regulatory compliance issues
Consult with peers at the site and across the company
Provide technical support/expertise within your discipline in the design and installation stages of projects for new assets and modification of existing assets to minimize life cycle cost and maximize asset availability
Lead or participate in incident investigations and root cause analysis
Systematically define, design, develop, monitor, and refine an asset maintenance plan that includes:
Value-added preventive maintenance tasks
Effective utilization of predictive and other non-destructive testing methodologies designed to identify and isolate inherent reliability problems
Apply value analysis to repair/replace, repair/redesign and make/buy decisions
Participate in interdisciplinary reliability improvement teams to guide efforts to ensure reliability and maintainability of equipment, processes, utilities, controls, and safety systems.
Provide technical support within your discipline to production, maintenance, project, and process engineering groups
You Bring This ValueBS degree in Electrical Engineering with a minimum of 3 years relevant experience in the refining, petrochemical, chemical process, or power generation industries is preferred. Strong interpersonal leadership skills are critical due to the requirement for effective communication of complex issues across the organization as well as for mentoring and consensus building. The successful candidate must exhibit an understanding of business drivers, management of change requirements, reliability processes, and maintenance workflow. The individual must have or develop basic proficiency in the following areas:
Interpretation and application of industry codes and standards (i.e. IEEE, ISA, NFPA, NEC)
Process instrumentation and control valves
Motors, motor controls, and drives
Analyzers and sample systems
PLC maintenance, troubleshooting, and programming
Distributed control systems
Project management
Reliability Engineering concepts
Reliability data analysis techniques
Predictive and Preventive Maintenance concepts
Basic knowledge of power distribution systems
Basic knowledge of Safety Instrumented Systems (SIS) design and logic
Basic knowledge of Smart Plant Instrumentation (SPI/ InTools)
Ability to apply computer software tools (SAP, Microsoft Office, Meridium, CAD)
The successful candidate must have strong commitment to safety, a high level of personal integrity, and dedication to conducting business in an ethical way.
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- The anticipated salary range for this position is $122,400.00 - $183,600.00 . The selected candidate's compensation will be determined based on their skills, experience, and qualifications.
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