Electrical Engineer
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Mid
Bachelor's, Master's
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
In Person
Electrical Engineering
About the job
Requirements
- A Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering.
- At least four years of experience applying electrical engineering in the oil and gas, refining, petrochemicals, chemicals, and/or EPC industries.
- Knowledge of international practices and standards for electrical regulatory requirements.
- Experience in operations and/or maintenance in an engineering capacity.
- Knowledge of electrical maintenance and reliability.
- Experience with electrical project design.
- Experience applying international industry codes and standards such as IEC and ANSI.
- Proficiency in data collection and analysis tools such as SAP, analytics tools, and Tableau or similar.
- Experience analyzing electrical equipment test records, including transformer oil analysis, thermography, battery health, and insulation testing, and assessing equipment health with improvement recommendations.
- Experience with hazardous-area equipment design, selection, classification techniques, and standards such as ATEX and API.
- Knowledge of bus transfer schemes, including automatic transfer, fast transfer, and residual-voltage transfer.
- Experience preparing annual maintenance plans for manufacturing plants using software systems such as SAP.
- Experience conducting criticality assessments and developing maintenance plans for electrical systems using industry standards, regulatory requirements, and manufacturer recommendations.
- Experience with system-modeling software such as SKM Power Tools and ETAP, and preparing associated power-system studies, including protective relaying, motor starting, load flow, short circuit, and arc flash.
- Knowledge in one or more of the following areas: electrical safety analysis and design; hazardous-area compliance; power generation, system analysis, and protection; power cable and line wiring methods and material selection; shielding and grounding principles for power lines and cables; equipment rating and selection adequacy, including withstand, interrupting, latching, and Basic Insulation Level; bus transfer schemes including automatic transfer, fast transfer, and residual-voltage transfer; battery backup and UPS system design and operation; motor starting methods such as soft start and variable speed; and regulatory requirements.
- Experience selecting and specifying substations, transformers, switchgear, protective relays, motor control centers, variable speed drives, motors, power cables, and generators.
Responsibilities
- Contribute to all stages of asset development and operation, including technology commercialization.
- Support electrical reliability improvement initiatives by developing tools to manage progress and status and compiling related reports and recommendations.
- Provide technical leadership of internal and external resources through all stages of asset development and operation, including technology commercialization.
- Contribute primarily within the scope of the individual's current job and in commercial areas affected by their technical expertise.
- Mentor early-career professionals.
- Use experience to identify cross-functional business opportunities.
- Participate in internal networks to disseminate capabilities for others' benefit.
- Collect data for electrical surveillance programs using a Computerized Maintenance Management System or other available data sources.
- Analyze site maintenance records to determine electrical equipment failure rates, availability and reliability, failure modes, and program effectiveness and cost.
- Collect and trend electrical equipment data against company and industry standards.
- Support development of electrical surveillance programs to prevent premature equipment failure.
- Develop equipment strategies by performing risk assessments and documenting them in software tools such as Credo and PESTRA.
- Obtain formal approvals of equipment strategies with site teams and maintain approval records for each refresh cycle.
- Enter tasks into software tools used to create field activities, such as SAP and GEMS.
- Prepare task-status reports against equipment strategy plans and recommend gap-closure plans to sites.
- Execute electrical lifecycle management programs, including equipment inventories, obsolescence plans, spare-parts management, and upgrade or replacement planning.
- Support electrical system maintenance and test planning, software upgrades, ESD testing, offline and online testing, and coordination of activities with or without plant shutdowns.
- Develop periodic power-system forecasts and recommend ways to identify or resolve capacity constraints in existing facilities.
- Review, evaluate, and update electrical one-line diagrams, schematics, and wiring diagrams.
- Conduct load-flow, short-circuit, harmonic, grounding, and arc-flash studies.
- Provide field support during turnaround events.
- Maintain master versions of site electrical power-system SKM models, keep models and studies current, and perform studies to assess the feasibility of power-system modifications for new projects.
- Coordinate directly with engineers at remote site locations to obtain and provide information and documentation needed to perform job responsibilities.
- Support electrical activities for site brownfield and revamp projects by preparing project electrical design documents, writing equipment specifications, reviewing contractor and vendor deliverables during engineering, construction, and commissioning, resolving technical issues, supporting other disciplines on the project team, and searching electronic document management systems for necessary information.
Desired Qualifications
- Experience with risk-management processes and tools for the oil and gas industry or similar industries.
- Develop and manage electrical surveillance programs, including analyzing maintenance records and equipment trends, supporting program development, and evaluating equipment reliability and program effectiveness.
- Develop equipment strategies using risk assessments and tools such as Credo and PESTRA, obtain site approvals, maintain records, manage task entry, and report task status and gap-closure recommendations.
About the company
ExxonMobil produces oil and natural gas and manufactures fuels, lubricants, and chemicals for transport operators, industrial customers, and consumers around the world. Its businesses span resource exploration and production, refineries that turn crude oil into fuels, and plants that make plastics and other chemical materials. The company sells products through wholesale supply agreements and the Exxon, Esso, and Mobil brands, including motor oils for vehicles and machinery. It also sells services that capture, transport, and store industrial carbon dioxide underground. The merged company formed in 1999 from Exxon and Mobil, with roots in earlier oil businesses, and is headquartered in Spring, Texas.
Company Size
10,001+
Company Stage
N/A
Total Funding
N/A
Headquarters
Irving, Texas
Founded
1999
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- Health Insurance
- Life Insurance
- 401(k) Retirement Plan
- Competitive compensation
- Medical plans
- Maternity Leave
- Retirement benefits
- Annual vacations & holidays
- Day care assistance program
- Training and development program
- Tuition assistance program
- Workplace flexibility policy