Electrical and Instrumentation Maintenance Engineer

Bayer CropScience Ltd•Luling, LA

31d•Onsite

About The Position

At Bayer we're visionaries, driven to solve the world's toughest challenges and striving for a world where 'Health for all Hunger for none' is no longer a dream, but a real possibility. We're doing it with energy, curiosity and sheer dedication, always learning from unique perspectives of those around us, expanding our thinking, growing our capabilities and redefining 'impossible'. There are so many reasons to join us. If you're hungry to build a varied and meaningful career in a community of brilliant and diverse minds to make a real difference, there's only one choice. What You Will Do The Electrical and Instrumentation (E&I) Maintenance Engineer provides technical support to troubleshoot and solve problems impacting equipment reliability, to execute improvements in equipment performance, to manage responsibilities for the design, installation, and start-up of various projects in the plant. The position will also provide technical leadership on daily maintenance activities, perform incident investigations, achieve long-range goals by up-grading equipment, and reduce costs in an effort to continuously improve processes and consistently establish the highest standards in the industry for safety, product quality, and reliability.

Requirements

Bachelor's of Science degree in Electrical Engineering with a minimum of 4 years engineering experience in manufacturing, engineering, or related field OR a Master's of Science degree in Engineering
Ability to work as an individual contributor and as part of a diverse team composed of fellow engineers, operations personnel, maintenance personnel, and leadership
Strong communications skills, both oral and written
Strong decision making and problem-solving skills
Challenge status quo to achieve better business results for the business
Ability to work on and balance multiple assignments and priorities
Must be able to perform work in a manufacturing plant environment including ascending/descending stairs/ladders
Computer proficiency in Windows based programs (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook)
Strong safety ethic.

Responsibilities

Provide Technical support in the development of detailed job plans for instrument and equipment repairs/ PMs.
Develop Engineering work packages for critical maintenance jobs and improvement projects.
Monitor/trend, identify and develop solutions to E&I equipment issues (accuracy, high downtime, high maintenance cost and/or high quantity of repetitive failures).
Generate management of changes documentation for solutions to E&I equipment problems that deviate from original design.
Maintain instrumentation specs and area E&I Drawings.
Perform incident investigations and participate in unit or area safety teams.
Provide technical support to production group with instrument and process issues.
Work closely with drafting personnel, production, and maintenance personnel, corporate engineering, and construction contractors.
Oversight of interlock/safety circuit program.
Perform technical input and support for Process Safety management.
Some on-call time periods may be incurred and perform administrative duties 20% of the time.
Manage the proper turnover if implemented control strategies to the customers. This includes proper documentation and training of area personnel and follow-up for debugging/refinement.
Assist in managing the long-term reliability efforts for the plant process control systems, including reliability tracking through Emerson. AMS/GE Meridium as well as control system hardware and I/O reliability.
Compliance and safety related activities: 10% of the time.
Promote site Process Safety and Plant Safety initiatives (EmPart, Behavior Base Safety, and Unit compliance, etc).
Lead interlock checks and be a primary resource providing troubleshooting guidance to Electrical and Instrumentation Technicians.