Futura Energy Group is closely partnering with a revolutionary renewable energy/environmental services company in the Ashley, IN Area on a highly visible and direct hire/permanent Sr. Electrical Controls Engineer position that’s open due to continued growth and has very strong advancement potential.
A few quick highlights:
- The company has grown 6% over the past year and 22% over the past two years.
- This is a critical position for the company and exposure up to the senior/executive leadership team.
- This person will have the opportunity to partner with a great leader, be part of an awesome team, and for a company that has great meaning and an outstanding culture.
- This opportunity offers a great work/life balance.
- This opportunity entails very little to no travel.
Job Description
In general, the applicant will be involved with the design, development, engineering, improvement, and validation of new projects for a novel plastics-to-fuel process. This role applies principles of engineering and project management and requires a general understanding of areas such as process controls and instrumentation, electrical power delivery, kinematics, dynamics, fluid dynamics, thermodynamics, materials science, structural analysis, and chemistry, along with tools like computer aided design and project tracking software. Conduct assessments of current process designs, design new processes and equipment, and develop recommendations for improvements. Manage vendors, subcontractors, and suppliers in producing new system components. Work seamlessly with a cross disciplinary team including operators, technicians, process managers, other engineering disciplines and finance team to conceptualize, implement and track projects, solutions, and improvements. Trouble shoot instrumentation, controls, electrical problems, and electrical systems and processes, and suggest and implement improvements to the same. Ensure that designs and installations are safe, maintainable, and meet or exceed relevant standards and codes.
Responsibilities:
- Engineering support to drive reliability and efficiency to asset’s electrical equipment.
- Assist with start-up and commissioning of new plant.
- Conceptualize improvements over existing designs.
- Assist/Lead in electrical equipment root cause failure analysis and in the development of standard practices and procedures.
- Learn and understand new technologies and solutions.
- Identify potential improvements in equipment and processes within the plastics-to-fuels process.
- Plan/asset maintenance & outage planning
- Provide recommendations for equipment selection on new and existing systems.
- Evaluate off-the-shelf and vendor solutions.
- Analyze and provide recommendations based on electrical equipment testing reports.
- Support operations to manage contract electrical equipment testing
- Analyze, track and trend electrical testing data and make prediction/recommendations based on this data.
- Design new systems and solutions as needed.
- Manage projects within time and budget constraints.
- Independently set and achieve goals and milestones.
- Interact clearly, comfortably, and respectfully with all staff and internal and external clients.
- Prepare technical reports and deliver internal presentations.
- Teach, mentor and train other staff.
- Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related field is a plus.
- 5+ years of experience is a plus.
- PLC/controls experience – experience with Allen-Bradley/Rockwell PLCs.
- Experience with electrical control systems troubleshooting, testing procedures, requirements, methodologies, and sequencing.
- Project management experience.
- Experience working for a manufacturing company. Experience working in the Oil & Gas or Chemicals Industry is a plus.
- Proficient in using Microsoft Office tools: Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint.