Electrical Engineer


Electrical safety design modifications and improvements to equipment and facilities. Responsible for electrical safety investigations and corrective actions.

-Responsible for developing, documenting, and improving preventive maintenance programs in order to support the improvement of equipment availability and throughput.

-Provide technical support and troubleshooting for equipment failures and loss of production.

-Assist maintenance and provide technical guidance required to return equipment to operation so as to minimize downtime and lost production.

-Provide “on call” support. Supervise and schedule daily work for plant electronic technicians.

-Responsible for analyzing production delay data for establishing and documenting or modifying preventive maintenance tasks.

-Generate continuous improvement projects based on production delay data.

-Prepare and review equipment failure/root cause analysis reports and determine/evaluate corrective action items and the impact of corrective action items to the preventive maintenance programs.

-Develop cost justifications for improvement projects and corrective actions.

-Develop work orders to detail work requests needed to implement improvements projects or corrective actions.

-Follow-up and audit to ensure proper completion.

-Coordinate outside contractor work activities with maintenance personnel or production personnel as required to minimize impacts to cost and production.

-Responsible for critical spare parts assessments and parts standardization.

-Responsible for developing and implementing standard operating procedures, training, and skill development for electricians and electronic technicians.

-Determine and install appropriate performance metrics that will promote long-term continuous improvement programs consistent with the operating objectives of the department.

-Provides support for problem resolution to facilitate faster improvements and improved working relationships. Perform Project Engineering duties.

-Fill in for the Supervisors or Department Manager as required. Performs other related duties as assigned.

 

ADDITIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES:

-Work with planning to prepare, coordinate and maintain schedules for extended production outages and major maintenance work. Work with maintenance supervisors and department managers to determine priorities and establish schedules.

-Support the management and maintaining of the information required for utilizing the plant computerized maintenance management system (CMMS).

-Work with maintenance craftsmen and operations to resolve equipment failures.

COMPETENCIES: Ability to provide leadership.

-Expertise, knowledge and training in engineering and maintenance. Extensive knowledge and training in product manufacturing.

-General knowledge of manufacturing processes involved in manufacturing of forged or flat rolled metal products.

-Excellent interpersonal skills General traits such as action oriented, conflict manager, decision maker, comprehensive listener, time manager and positive attitude.

-Fulfill the roles of facilitator, coach, mentor, counselor and communicator. Computer skills and the ability to advance those skills as required.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:

-Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering. Formal training or experience with Preventive and Predictive Maintenance programs. Maintenance Engineering or Maintenance Supervisor position with a minimum of 1-3 years of proven experience.

ADDITIONAL NOTES: Proof of US citizenship, nationality, and/or permanent resident status in order to comply with all applicable export and import laws and regulations