Electrical Engineer

ZipRecruiter - Texas City, TX

Full-time - Mid Level

Texas City, TX

About the position

The Electrical Engineer will be part of the Engineering Services department at a major integrated petrochemical manufacturing facility. This role focuses on the optimization, troubleshooting, and design of various electrical equipment, ensuring that operations are safe, environmentally sound, reliable, and profitable. The engineer will collaborate closely with operations, maintenance, and project development teams to implement repairs and improvements to electrical systems.

Responsibilities

• Optimize, troubleshoot, and design a variety of electrical equipment.
• Maintain close contact with operations, maintenance, engineering, and project development to identify and implement electrical equipment repairs and reliability improvements.
• Design and specify electrical equipment such as motors, breakers, relays, generators, substations, buses, starters, transformers, and other industrial electrical equipment (480V to 230kV).
• Coordinate projects for new or replacement equipment among engineering, maintenance, and operations.
• Provide commissioning, startup assistance, and support of electrical systems with maintenance personnel.
• Serve as an electrical technology expert liaison between project engineers, plant maintenance, and operations personnel.
• Support and interface with business teams to maintain and improve electrical reliability while reducing maintenance costs.
• Participate in screening, optimization, and basic design preparation for electric power systems.
• Develop project scoping, design, and detail specifications for electric power systems.
• Monitor Engineering Quality Control and lead contractor's electrical work to ensure consistency with project specifications and guidelines.
• Support preparation of Design Basis Memorandums and develop Specifications.
• Provide technical support and services to operating facilities.
• Perform power systems simulations and analyses, including load flow, short circuit, motor starting and reacceleration, arc flash, transient stability, and relay coordination.
• Update Company practices and specifications.
• Apply ExxonMobil Global Practices, Design Practices, General Information and Instructions, codes and standards in support of projects during the detailed design phase.
• Participate actively in the Electrical Community of Practice.
• Participate in incident investigations in support of assets.
• Perform Risk Assessments and develop Equipment Strategies in support of assets.
• Manage electrical area classification for assets within the facility.

Requirements

• Bachelor of Science or Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering.
• 10+ years of experience as an Electrical Engineer in the petrochemical industry with power systems.
• Oil & Gas background with maintenance and reliability experience.
• Substation experience.
• Demonstrated experience in electrical designing work.

Nice-to-haves

• Ability to work with a wide variety of personnel at different levels of engineering, design, maintenance, and management.
• Ability to work with internal customers as well as suppliers and repair facilities of electrical equipment.
• Good interpersonal skills.
• Ability to communicate effectively and clearly in both written and verbal form for instructing others in technical matters and obtaining cooperation from various personnel.
• Problem solving / troubleshooting of electrical systems.
• Knowledge of Electrical Safety standards and Area Electrical Classification standards (API, NFPA, NEC, and NETA).
• Knowledge of SKM Modeling, System Studies, and Coordination.

Benefits

• Time-off benefits such as vacations and holidays.
• Insurance and other plan benefits.