Are you our next Asset Integrity Electrical Engineer - (I, II, III, or Sr.)?

The position provides technical expertise and leadership to implement and execute asset integrity strategies at one of the operating sites within the North America Business. The location will be a phosphate concentrate. The person in this position is a self-motivated member of a centralized asset integrity team. You will work closely with a team of Operations, Maintenance, and Reliability personnel to monitor asset reliability results and address issues hindering reliability. You will provide electrical engineering, reliability, and process subject matter expertise to a team of peers developing and deploying reliability improvements. Your focus is long term asset health; sustaining gains and delivering value to attain overall site operational goals.

What will you do?

• Identify deficiencies in maintenance processes and develop sustainable improvement. Apply and optimize PM / PdM activities to drive improvement in asset mean time between failures.
• Track site specific downtime to identify reliability improvement opportunities and utilize Root Cause Analysis processes to review failures and identify corrective actions to prevent re-occurrence.
• Develop subject matter expertise of fundamental reliability concepts and skills.
• Develop operations process knowledge required for effective troubleshooting and problem solving.
• Provide prioritized asset assessments that support 5-year capital financial planning.
• Collaborate with peers to develop reliability improvement asset strategies, pursue consistency between sites, share best practices and experiences. Deploy and execute asset strategies. Monitor results to continually refine and improve asset strategies
• Seize opportunity to build environmental, health and safety improvements into equipment asset strategies. Be a role model to others in exceeding expectations of EHS policies and procedures.
• Responsible for conducting audits and inspections.
• Review and authorize work permits; development of lock-out-tag-out plans.
• Other duties as assigned.

Major assignments include?

• Responsible SME for industrial electrical infrastructure equipment ranging from final utilization voltage (480/600V) to high voltage (15/34.5/69/72/115/138/230kV) and may include standby generation (<3MW) and steam turbine generators (<68MW) depending on site.
• Responsible SME for electrical protection and control systems.
• Continuous development and review of 5-yr electrical infrastructure capital planning.
• Collaborate with maintenance planning teams to develop key field service maintenance scopes for regular maintenance, and annual turnarounds. Assist with supervision of field service contractors. Interpretate test results and ensure follow up actions are tracked and completed.
• Coordinate power system study activities. Complete minor updates to power system models.

What do you need for this role?

• Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering

Engineer I

• 0+ years of related experience required.
• Experience in related co-op or internship is preferred
• Demonstrated active team participation.
• Experience leading teams and facilitating groups is preferred.

Engineer II

• 2+ years or more of related experience.
• Demonstrated leadership skills and experience

Engineer III

• 4+ years or more of related experience.
• Demonstrated leadership skills and experience in multi team roles.

Engineer Senior

• 8+ years or more of related experience.
• Demonstrated leadership skills and experience leading cross functional teams.
• P. Eng. designation required for Canadian locations.

Required for ALL Levels:

• MS Office products, CMMS (or similar software) experience.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with ability to interface with all levels of management.
• Working familiarity with RCM and FMEA.
• Must demonstrate ability to influence others; requires strong leadership qualities, teamwork and problem solving / decision making qualities.

Preferred for ALL Levels:

• Experience with operation and maintenance of high voltage switchgear (gas, air, and metal-enclosed), transformers (oil-filled and dry-type), and other industrial electrical infrastructure is an asset
• Working knowledge of power system protection and coordination. Protection and coordination with SEL and/or GE relaying and SCADA is an asset.
• Experience with underground mining power systems is an asset for potash sites.
• Experience with power system modelling software tools (EasyPower is an asset)
• Control system knowledge. Experience with Rockwell, GE, or ABB PLC’s and/or Delta-V, ABB 800xA, or Yokogawa DCS is an asset.
• Knowledge and experience with instrumentation is an asset.
• Knowledge and experience with mine hoisting systems is an asset for potash sites.
• Working knowledge of National Electrical Code for US sites and Canadian Electrical Code for Canadian sites.
• Working knowledge on Mine Safety and Health Administration electrical safety (MSHA) for US mining operations and CSA M421 Use of Electricity in Mines for Canadian sites.
• Knowledge of Predictive Technologies (vibration, IR, UE, MCA, oil analysis).
• Facilitation experience with RCM and FME is an asset.
• Development experience with PM procedures is an asset.
• CMRP (SMRP certified maintenance reliability professional), CRE (ASQ certified reliability engineer), CRL (AMP certified reliability leader), or CSSBB (ASQ certified six sigma black belt) certification is an asset.

Training Opportunities

• All team members will have personal development goals that includes a training plan.
• Training may be onsite or at offsite training facilities; air travel may be required.

Other

• ​Physical work environment is occasionally outdoors and exposed to varying degrees of hot and cold environments.
• The physical demands described are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• Must be able to safely perform the essential functions of the job without posing a direct threat to the safety of his or her own self, or the safety of others.
• Able to lift approximately 0-25 lbs. unassisted and occasionally
• Able to climb stairs and work at various heights
• Able to hear, with or without correction
• Able to read, write and understand basic English
• Able to see, with or without correction
• Able to travel unassisted
• Able to work rotating shifts and overtime as required