Lead Engineer - Electrical

Air Products and Chemicals

Oil and Gas

Texas City, TX - USA

Senior Specialist / Project Manager

Experteer Overview

In this role you will enhance the reliability and safe operation of high-voltage distribution equipment, rotating machinery, and power system protection across North America. You will lead root-cause investigations, translate analyses into practical maintenance and engineered solutions, and help standardize guidelines to reduce downtime. Based at the Texas City plant with travel to other sites as needed, you will partner with field teams to improve plant reliability and safety. You will drive protective-relay programming and system studies to support reliable plant operations and upgrades.

Compensation / Benefits

Affordable Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance
401k with 100% vested company core and match
Paid Vacation, holidays + sick time
Paid Parental leave (Up to 8 weeks)
Backup Child and Adult Care benefit
Adoption assistance

Responsibilities

Provide technical support to field teams for high-voltage distribution equipment and high-voltage motors/generators
Solve electrical equipment issues and coordinate technical response across Air Products facilities
Supervise vendor shop repairs of high-voltage motors and equipment to verify quality and workmanship
Document critical work with repair reports to support traceability and long-term equipment history
Develop engineered solutions to eliminate recurring electrical issues
Improve plant reliability by trending performance data and updating maintenance procedures
Lead and participate in root-cause analyses (RCA) and drive corrective actions to closure
Develop and complete predictive and preventive maintenance strategies for critical electrical assets
Apply internal and national standards when specifying, maintaining, and repairing electrical equipment
Review and approve engineering documents for plant upgrades and reliability projects
Train, coach, and mentor technicians and operations staff on safe operation and preventive maintenance of electrical systems
Ensure all work aligns with Safety and Environmental standards and supports a strong safety culture
Maintain company electrical safe work practice standards aligned with industry standards and recommended procedures
Perform power system studies, including motor starting/voltage drop, short-circuit, arc-flash, and load-flow analyses
Program protective relays using settings developed from system studies and validate performance through event analysis

Key requirements

Minimum 10 years of electrical engineering experience in large industrial plants
Experience handling an electrical safety program with NFPA 70E knowledge
In-depth experience with SKM PowerTools for Windows
In-depth experience with SEL and Multilin protective relays, including programming and event analysis
Experience specifying and supporting HV substations and associated equipment (transformers; HV/LV motors and generators; motor control circuits; VFDs; station batteries; and UPS systems)
Experience in operation and maintenance of synchronous generators and related control and protection systems
Experience with NERC standards and compliance for a generating facility
Ability to travel in North America (15–20%)
Preferred: Active Texas PE license; NFPA CESCP; ability to read P&IDs; PLCs/DCS knowledge

team collaboration communication mentoring HV distribution equipment high-voltage motors/generators protective relays programming (SEL, Multilin)

Description

In this role you will enhance the reliability and safe operation of high-voltage distribution equipment, rotating machinery, and power syste…

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