E&I Engineer
Job Description:
This role will report to the Plant Services Manager
Note: Company seeks candidate with strong PLCs and DCS programming experience in a biofuel/petroleum project setting.
- To be the project and future site engineer responsible to ensure the electrical and instrumentation systems meet the project requirements and future operational requirements
- To be a member of the Project Management Team representing Operations and support the development of the project in line with the project procedures and specifically the Project Execution Plan, the Project Quality Plan and the Project HSSE and Environmental Plans
- To make safety the number one priority and to pro-actively demonstrate safe behaviors and demand safe behaviors from everybody associated with the Project
- To ensure that E and I standards are met during design construction
- Initiating change and finding long term solutions to ongoing operational and equipment problems
- Guide Instrument and Electrical Reliability
- Ensure integrity of instrumentation in particular those instruments related to safety and environmental performance
- Development of maintenance strategies and provide the instrument and electrical engineering/technical support for major equipment
Responsibilities Accountabilities
- To provide owner coordination of all issues associated with the plant instrumentation and electrical systems to ensure the as-built plant meets the business expectations
- To manage the interface on E and I matters between the Operations Team and EPC Contractor
- Main interface with Electrical Utility on technical and operational issues
- Providing input on selection of equipment, review, and approval of specifications
- Design input and review of EPC contractor and vendor packages for power distribution (including variable speed motors and drives), instruments, safety valves, all field instrumentation and architecture
- Understand company HSSE practices, policies and procedures, including the impact of E and I equipment and operations as well as familiarity with Industry Standards
- Participating in cross-functional teams to optimize plant designs for cost effectiveness, reliability, operability and maintainability
- Participating in Process Hazard Analysis studies (PHA)
- To support the commissioning activities for E and I to ensure these systems are commissioned to schedule
- Site Start-up support
- To represent the Project in a respectful and positive manner at all times.
- Advise and assist on-site electricians, instrument technicians, planners and supervisors on electrical and instrument repairs
- Participate as a technical adviser on maintenance, turnarounds and capital projects
- Drive electrical reliability programs for the site including purchasing specs, repair quality standards and reliability strategies
- Develop risk assessments and long-term plans for critical equipment
- Comply with process Safety Management and Process Hazard Analysis requirements
- Lead the development and implementation of reliability strategies for critical plant electrical equipment using Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) and standards for preventative/predictive maintenance (PM PdM)
- Lead the development and implementation of PM programs for general purpose equipment
- Monitor critical equipment using transformer oil analysis, thermal imaging and various other condition based monitoring tools
- Perform root cause failure analysis (RCFA) on equipment failures and recommend corrective actions on instrumentation and electrical equipment that has failed
- Oversee the field construction, verification of proper installation, and the oversight of final commissioning of instrumentation and electrical equipment associated with maintenance or capital projects
- Provide selection and specification of new electrical and instrument equipment on maintenance and capital projects activities
Skills Knowledge Required
- Previous Operations experience in petrochemicals, biofuels, power or similar industries
- Strong safety and environmental performance
- Experienced in the Power Electrical systems and Instrumentation. Knowledge and experience of high and medium voltage systems is required
- Strong ability to work with others
- Strong communication, writing and networking skills
- An ability to manage work priorities to deliver real performance improvements in a busy and demanding work environment
- Strong knowledge of safety and the pro-active application of new techniques to improve safety performance
- Ability to set priorities based on business needs and strategy
- Strong bias for action to identify potential problems and co-ordinate their resolution before they become an issue. Continual enthusiasm and a desire to assist the team improve performance
- Strong engineering skills with a thorough knowledge of instrumentation and electrical equipment
- Detailed knowledge of various electrical Codes (e.g. NEC and ANSI and IEEE) and industry instrumentation standards as applied to petrochemical facilities, working with E and I designers, Process Safety Management (PSM), Management of Change process, and Capital Value Process (CVP)
- Complete understanding of the engineering documents associated with instrumentation such as: P and IDs, loop sheets, specification sheets, electrical line diagrams, logic diagrams, installation detail drawings, etc.
- Complete understanding of field construction, sequence of events, how to track progress, how to verify proper installation
- Solid understanding of field instrumentation and associated technologies
- Review sizing and selection of instruments and control valves
- Review design and implementation of Safety Instrumented Systems (SIS)
- Prefer an understanding of interlocking shutdown systems and permissive start-up systems
- Experience with PLCs and DCS programming is mandatory
- Project engineering or and experience leading projects is a plus
- Strong written, verbal, and interpersonal skills are essential to perform this role
- Ability to travel to various engineering contractors’ offices and project sites
Education and Experience: The successful candidate should have a minimum of a BS degree in Electrical Engineering or related subject and at least 5 years of related experience in power, electrical and process instrumentation in chemical plants. Experience with the technical design and support of ethanol or petro-chemical projects is required. Basic knowledge of distributed control systems and programmable logic controllers is preferred. The preferred candidate will have held a similar position that interfaced with staff engineers, engineering contractors, Public Utilities, craftsmen, operators, and vendor engineers.
If interested in this excellent opportunity, please send your resume in a word attachment to: Stan@ZanderGreen.com
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January 8, 2007
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