Electrical Engineer

Atalco Gramercy•Gramercy, LA

About The Position

The Electrical Engineer will work at an alumina refinery to improve equipment reliability, manage change processes, and execute capital and improvement projects. The role leads root cause analysis (RCA) for equipment failures, champions continuous improvement, and manages projects through the Front-End Loaded (FEL) process. The engineer monitors and improves the overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) and onstream factor of plantwide electrical systems, including substations, power distribution, starters, VFDs, protection systems, drives and motors, and power and DCS interfacing systems. The role supports optimum system throughput and guides maintenance teams on practices to reduce failures, operating costs, and maintenance frequency. The position leads investigations into equipment failures and chronic reliability issues, facilitates cross-functional RCA sessions, tracks corrective actions, and assesses their effectiveness. It also owns, leads, or participates in the Management of Change (MoC) process for equipment modifications, ensuring compliance with safety, environmental, and operational standards in collaboration with operations, maintenance, and engineering teams. The engineer identifies and executes improvement opportunities, develops business cases, analyzes field data and failure trends, implements strategies to prevent repeat failures, and supports reliability-centered and predictive maintenance programs. Using the FEL methodology, the role leads projects from concept through execution and develops project scopes, budgets, schedules, and risk assessments while coordinating internal stakeholders and external contractors. Performance is measured through RCA completion and corrective-action effectiveness; MoC timeliness, incidents, and documentation compliance; asset reliability, downtime, and availability; project schedule, budget, and FEL compliance; stakeholder satisfaction; and continuous-improvement initiatives, value creation, and field-data collection targets.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or a related field.
At least 5 years of experience in heavy industrial environments.
Proven experience in root cause analysis, Management of Change, and project management.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
Excellent communication and leadership skills.

Nice To Haves

Experience in alumina or similar refining operations.
Familiarity with reliability tools such as FMEA and RCM.
Familiarity with CMMS systems and data analysis software.

Responsibilities

Monitor and improve OEE of plantwide electrical systems.
Improve the onstream factor of plantwide electrical industrial manufacturing systems, including substations, power distribution, starters, VFDs, protection systems, drives and motors, and power and DCS interfacing systems.
Ensure electrical systems perform at optimum throughput.
Guide the maintenance department on practices to reduce equipment failures, operating costs, and maintenance frequency.
Lead investigations into equipment failures and chronic reliability issues.
Facilitate cross-functional RCA sessions, develop actionable recommendations, and track corrective actions and their effectiveness.
Own, lead, or participate in the MoC process for equipment modifications.
Ensure modifications comply with safety, environmental, and operational standards, and collaborate with operations, maintenance, and engineering teams to assess risks and impacts.
Identify improvement opportunities, prepare business cases, and execute changes using the FEL process.
Collect and analyze field data to identify failure trends and reliability opportunities.
Develop and implement strategies to eliminate repeat failures and improve equipment uptime.
Support reliability-centered maintenance and predictive maintenance programs.
Lead projects from concept through execution using the FEL methodology.
Develop scopes, budgets, schedules, and risk assessments for capital and improvement projects.
Coordinate with internal stakeholders and external contractors to deliver projects.
Track performance against KPIs for RCA effectiveness, MoC compliance, reliability and uptime, project execution, and continuous improvement.