Electrical Engineer

Sekisui Specialty Chemicals America recognizes that employees are its most valuable resource and is interested in the growth and fulfillment of every employee. Our Employees provide the driving force and the ever-expanding knowledge base that are fundamental to the success of the Company. It is our objective to recruit and employ qualified associates who can contribute to our progress and provide them the opportunity to maximize their potential. Let's build a future together with innovative products that help the world around us.

POSITION SUMMARY:

Develop and improve new and existing electrical and instrument systems. Provide I&E technical support to the facility. Have demonstrated engineering expertise in I&E design, control systems, and system interfaces. Ability to manage activities to ensure Capital Investment and Expense Projects are safely executed on schedule, within authorized budgets, meets quality and plant specifications.

• Ensure safety has top priority through clearly developed safety objectives, uniform application of safety policy and procedures
• Participating as integral part of Pasadena Maintenance Team while supporting plant operation, reliability improvement, and reliability projects across the facility
• Working in a team environment, by implementing reliability best practices, developing, and optimizing preventive maintenance tasks, implementing reliability improvement projects, and supporting maintenance and turnaround activities
• Interacting with other technical groups on site (process engineering, maintenance, and capital project), corporate technical networks and peers, and vendors/suppliers as needed to resolve problems and improve plant reliability and performance.
• Applying 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.
• Providing instrumentation and electrical technical support/expertise in design and installation stages of projects for new assets and modification of existing assets to minimize life cycle cost and maximize asset availability.
• Overseeing Instrument & Electrical maintenance programs, calibrations, and repairs required for plant instrumentation, analyzers, distributed control systems, safety instrumented systems, and electrical equipment related to process controls and environmental monitoring.
• Participating in the development of design and installation specifications, acceptance tests, inspection criteria, and commissioning plans for new equipment
• Maintaining awareness of emerging technology, assessing applicability to improve reliability and performance, or to reduce maintenance cost.
• Leading and participating in incident investigations and root cause analysis.
• Managing risk to the achievement of an organization's strategic objectives in the areas of environmental health and safety, asset capability, quality, and production.
• Applying principles to systematically define, design, develop, monitor, and refine an asset maintenance plan including: Value-added preventive maintenance tasks; Effective utilization of predictive, condition based, and other non-destructive testing methodologies designed to identify and isolate inherent reliability problems; Life cycle value analysis to repair/replace/redesign decisions in the instrument and electrical arena; Interdisciplinary reliability improvement teamwork to guide efforts to ensure reliability and maintainability of equipment and process systems; Technical support for production, maintenance, project, and process engineering groups; Pasadena I&E representation for providing input to the improvement of instrumentation related standards, procedures, guidelines, and corporate initiatives; Business drivers understanding and applications, management of change requirements, reliability processes, and maintenance workflow; Failure Mode and Effects Analysis.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• 3-5 years' experience in electrical/control troubleshooting and design
• BS degree in Electrical Engineering or Electrical Engineering Technology
• Demonstrated knowledge of successful project management practices including: budgeting, cost control, estimating, scheduling programs, project timeline and forecasting
• Knowledge of industry design codes and practices, inherently safe design practices, process safety and a personal commitment to personnel safety.
• Ability to work in and foster a strong team environment with minimal supervision
• Able to handle multiple activities simultaneously
• Experience managing multiple assignments, people and projects, in a fast-paced manufacturing environment.
• Possess excellent verbal and written communication skills and impart a positive attitude with developed interpersonal skills to resolve issues and challenges with other functional groups
• Self-starter with advanced presentation, planning, communication, interpersonal and organizational skills.
• Experience using Microsoft Project, Power-Point, SAP, and Excel software.
• Maintains good records, organized, and a motivator.
• Knowledge of gated work process for project management
• Good working knowledge of procurement process
• Knowledge of Honeywell's TDC3000 and Experion DCS systems
• PLC's/Displays—Allen Bradley and Modicon
• Experience with I&E PSM compliance
• Experience with 480 volt MCCs

Job Type: Full-time

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Flexible schedule
• Health insurance
• Health savings