Electrical Engineer II - Power Distribution

Position Title: Electrical Engineer II
Hire Type: Permanent, Full-Time
Location: Houston, TX or Southeast, PA
Schedule: Hybrid/Flex Schedule
  
NES Fircroft is a leading global technical recruitment company providing professional permanent and contract staff to a diverse client base within the energy and engineering industry. Our client, a major owner-operator of global midstream infrastructure, is looking for a full-time Electrical Engineer II to be based in Houston, TX or the Southeast region of Pennsylvania.

Position Summary:

This Electrical Engineer II position is an intermediate-level engineering role responsible for supporting electrical engineering standards as well as continuously improving the technical content of our bids, estimates, project construction packages, maintenance programs, and reliability improvement initiatives

Requirements:

• Requires Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering or related
• 5+ years’ experience in the pipeline and terminals business, chemicals industry, other process industry, or with an engineering firm serving these industries
• Experience with electrical design engineering for power distribution to rotating equipment
• Up to 25% travel

Responsibilities Include:

Operations Support

• Provide response to field operations requests for technical assistance and guidance on the application of electrical equipment in compliance with established company standards

Electrical Reliability Program

• Includes power distribution and other electrical equipment between 480 V to 35 Kv
• Maintain electrical power load, coordination, and circuit over-current protection studies across all facilities
• Facilitate Arc Flash safety studies & mitigation projects to manage areas of high incident energies
• Develop electrical equipment criticality lists with risk-based ranking of electrical install base 
• Prepare scopes of work and budgetary estimates for proposed maintenance capital projects within the Asset Maintenance Prioritization (AMP) guidelines
• Risk rank project opportunities and participate in annual maintenance capital planning
• Maintain 20-year capital plan for electrical projects
• Perform Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) reviews of critical or unreliable equipment
• Review Management of Change (MOC) and capital projects for reliability improvement opportunities
• Perform Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF), Failure Modes Effects Analyses (FMEA) of electrical components

Facility Assesments

• Conduct thorough design reviews and provide work instructions to designers and external design contractors relating to capital project design packages

Engineering Standards

• Produce, monitor, and improve engineering standards, recommended practices, standard designs, and specifications that form part of the company's design library

Facility Assessments

• Perform site visits to assess current electrical install base and improve facility documentation
• Other duties as assigned

Other Skills, Attributes and Abilities:

• Excellent communication, both written and verbal, as well as strong organizational skills are paramount
• To be successful in this position, one must have excellent analytical skills to resolve business and operations problems and have good communication skills to consult with users to provide technical assistance
• Skilled in Microsoft Office suite of software, AutoCAD, engineering, and design software packages, including power modeling software (SKM and/or ETAP)

Physical & Safety Requirements:

• The incumbent in this role must wear Fire Retardant Clothing (FRC) and/or Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) while involved in site walk downs and in field activities
• The employee is frequently required to effectively communicate with others
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus
• This position is subject to DOT drug and alcohol regulations

With over 90 years' combined experience, NES Fircroft (NES) is proud to be the world's leading engineering staffing provider spanning the Oil & Gas, Power & Renewables, Chemicals, Construction & Infrastructure, Life Sciences, Mining and Manufacturing sectors worldwide. With more than 80 offices in 45 countries, we are able to provide our clients with the engineering and technical expertise they need, wherever and whenever it is needed. We offer contractors far more than a traditional recruitment service, supporting with everything from securing visas and work permits, to providing market-leading benefits packages and accommodation, ensuring they are safely and compliantly able to support our clients.