Overview:
The Instrumentation and Electrical Reliability Engineer will be responsible for improving and sustaining instrumentation reliability at the Wilmington plant, while supporting site and corporate goals/requirements for Process Safety, Environmental, Quality, and Cost.
Responsibilities:
- Define proactive maintenance strategies (preventive, predictive, failure finding) to improve instrumentation reliability.
- Perform root cause analysis on instrumentation failures, develop corrective actions and track results.
- Recommend instrumentation changes to improve reliability, providing justification & utilizing Management of Change process.
- Manage high level troubleshooting of instrumentation issues to support 24x7 operations.
- Support outage work related to instrumentation reliability.
- Support the SIS (Safety Instrumented Systems) Program, following the Celanese work process.
- Review of specifications & vendor submittals for major project new instrumentation.
- Provide instrumentation input during Process Hazard Analysis (PHA) sessions.
- Perform annual self-audit of site Mechanical Integrity program for instrumentation, using Celanese audit protocol.
- Technically coordinates work of I/E technicians; identifies personnel training requirements.
- Leads program specific bad actor analysis and resolution
- Eliminates high consequence failures
- Hires and leads I&E contractors
- Orders key parts from vendors that meet plant expectations.
Qualifications:
Required Knowledge/Skills/Abilities:
- 6-10 years Instrumentation/Electrical Reliability experience
- B.S. Engineering or equivalent industrial experience in lieu of degree
- Hands-on experience with improving instrumentation reliability.
- Intermediate capabilities with Microsoft Word and Excel.
- Use of a Root Cause Analysis methodology.
- Deep knowledge of process plant instrumentation.
- Experience with the implementation of proactive maintenance strategies.
- Knowledge of PHA's and safety reviews, MOC, and Safety Instrumented Systems.
- Capable of handling several projects and support activities simultaneously.
- Candidate must have good technical writing and presentation skills.
Desirable Knowledge/Skills/Abilities:
- Experience with the Reliability Centered Maintenance process.
- Experience with SAP, or other CMMS, with ability to mine data for reliability analysis.
- Familiarity with ANSI/ISA-84.00.01 Safety Instrumented Systems.
- Familiarity with relevant industry standards and codes, such as API, ISA, & NFPA
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