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We are looking for:
- A Maintenance Electrical Engineer to apply their work experience and knowledge of the principles of electrical systems.
We count on you for:
- Supervise and maintain records of all Electrical work carried out within area of responsibility
- Mentor employees with an aspect to electrical & instrumentation installation.
- Provide out-of-hours support if needed
- Review process equipment breakdowns in a timely and effective manner. Work closely with different area operators, maintenance technicians, and engineering to develop effective maintenance strategies.
- Investigate root cause of equipment failures and make recommendations for long term fixes
- Using control descriptions, I/O lists, electrical schematics, and drawings.
- Create/review/modify electrical schematics, drawings, and I/O lists for various electro-mechanical systems to ensure compliance with engineering standards and customer specifications.
- Support design and shop building of machine control systems.
- Submit status reports to management on progress of assigned projects
- Participate as necessary in equipment, assembly, installation, and set-up activities to ensure components and systems are conforming to engineering design standards and customer specifications.
- Estimate engineering time, material costs and resources required for proposed projects.
- Provide engineering with technical guidance on electrical components, equipment, software, and services.
- Providing support for equipment installation, startup, troubleshooting, and ongoing maintenance.
You can count on us for:
- Interaction between the customers, the Engineering Department, and the Maintenance Department. The gratitude and satisfaction by these groups when the job is completed, it’s more personable because the departments and customers are internal (or onsite).
- This position is greatly involved in this installation process control systems and instrumentation, in addition maintaining them, troubleshooting and repairing them. The role is also a teaching/coaching position in the Maintenance Department. The multi-craft mechanics will become better troubleshooters, do better repairs and preventive maintenance tasks when they learn more the Maintenance Reliability Engineer.
You will bring:
- BS Engineering (Electrical preferred), and Experience 5+ years manufacturing support. Additional Experience acceptable in place of degree
- Demonstrated familiarity with PLC and HMI programming for automated industrial equipment. (Allen Bradley and Wonder Ware preferred but not required).
- Experience with control panel design
- Experience with industrial electric troubleshooting (up to 480 3 phase) is preferred.
- Experience in developing/modifying electrical schematics through AutoCAD is required.
- Experience with reading and reviewing Piping and Instrumentation Drawings (P&ID) and equipment arrangement drawings is required.
- Experience with MS Office is preferred (macros, templates, and pivot tables), SAP and AutoCAD
- Excellent interpersonal, mathematical, verbal, written and presentation skills.
- Ability to work both independently as well as with the team.
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills to be applied in design, programming, troubleshooting and diagnosis of the designed control systems.
You will get:
- Competitive salary: The U.S. annual base salary range reasonably expected to be paid for this new hire is: $78,960 to $111,300. Since actual compensation packages are based on a variety of factors unique to each candidate, we may ultimately pay more or less than the posted base salary range. Total compensation for this role also includes bonus and/or other incentives.
- 16 weeks of maternity/paternity and co-parenting leave
- Training platform for all employees
- Free language courses (24 languages available)
- Solvay Shares Plan
- Free well-being sessions (physical and psychological)
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