ELECTRICAL ENGINEER

Maintenance Department

Position Overview:

Effective deployment of capital dollars and resources targeted at the implementation of equipment improvement and sustainability strategy projects. Project management of engineering and related initiatives

Specific Responsibilities:

• Develop capital investment strategies, programs, and projects
• Insures compliance with plant and federal safety standards
• Engineering processes, policies, and procedures
• Identification and implementation of improvements efforts
• Champions the sharing and leveraging of initiatives, processes and accomplishments within plant
• Identifies and champions improvement and functional excellence initiatives
• Plans and establishes engineering schedules and ensures performance to schedule
• Set engineering strategies to support business objectives
• Development and management of engineering project portfolio
• Project planning, management and control
• Monitoring and control of capital spending
• Project plan development including scope, schedule, budget estimate, and risk identification
• Accountable for all Plant power distributions
• Assist Maintenance on electrical/combustion trouble shooting
• Assist in training maintenance electricians
• Coordinate departmental systems upgrades.
• Ability to troubleshoot AC and DC Circuits. High, medium, and low voltage.

Essential Non-Job Functions

• Interpersonal effectiveness
• Team and project leadership
• Problem solving and performance improvement (design of experiments, Lean, Six Sigma, Kaizen, etc.)
• Leadership – direct and influential
• Strong Interpersonal skills, self-starter, self-disciplined, self- motivated, self-confident
• Strong organizational skills
• Strong verbal and written communication skills Computer skills in Microsoft Office Products
• Project and portfolio management
• Critical thinking, disciplined judgment, detail orientated, meet commitments
• Negotiation
• Planning & coordination
• Budget development and control
• Strong analytical, statistical and communication skills
• Creative
• Driven to excellence
• Bias to improvement
• Willing acceptance of responsibility, proactive
• “Small company”, “can do” mindset

Qualifications

• Minimum 10-15 years engineering in heavy industrial manufacturing environment
• Maintenance experience a plus
• Direct project management experience including construction supervision and unit control projects
• Contract administration

Safety:

• Ensure personal compliance with safety policies and rules, including PPE requirements.
• Report any issues not immediately resolvable to appropriate manager.
• Make recommendations regarding procedures, processes or tools that improve safety and support a safe work environment.

Education and Experience:

• BS degree in Engineering or Business (engineering preferred)
• Experience in steel-related or industrial environment

Physical and Other Requirements:

• Ability to safely move around in a heavy industrial plant environment for up to 12 hours per day
• Lifting to 50 pounds on an occasional basis
• Ability to work irregular shifts and extended hours as required, and maintain job performance standards