Electrical Engineer

Mitsubishi Chemical Group•Chesapeake, VA

11d•$95,300 - $119,100

About The Position

The Electrical Engineer provides plant-level engineering for electrical power, controls, automation, and equipment reliability in a continuous manufacturing environment. The role partners with Engineering, Maintenance, Production, HSE, Quality, Information Technology, vendors, and contractors to troubleshoot chronic failures, design and execute upgrades, improve equipment availability, and ensure electrical and controls systems are documented, maintainable, secure, and aligned with company standards. It combines hands-on field support with engineering analysis, project execution, commissioning, and technical stewardship of production assets and facility systems. The position supports industrial electrical and control systems, reliability and maintenance, capital and expense projects, installations and commissioning, safety and compliance, documentation, and team capability. It also provides technical escalation during significant equipment events and participates in an on-call rotation or planned weekend work after appropriate orientation and training.

Responsibilities

Design, specify, modify, and support industrial electrical and control systems, including power distribution, motor-control equipment, PLCs, HMIs, drives, instrumentation, sensors, industrial networks, and machine-safety interfaces.
Develop control narratives, functional requirements, I/O lists, panel layouts, schematics, network architecture, bills of material, and installation work packages.
Program, configure, troubleshoot, and improve PLC/HMI platforms and associated drive systems; support legacy systems and develop practical migration and obsolescence plans.
Support SCADA and operational-technology systems, including Ignition integration, historian and data requirements, communications, managed switches, device addressing, time synchronization, and IT/OT coordination.
Diagnose issues using electrical drawings, PLC logic, trend data, drive fault history, network diagnostics, and field measurements; preserve rollback capability when making changes.
Maintain validated backups of PLC, HMI, drive, SCADA, and network configurations, and control access and changes according to company requirements.
Partner with electricians, mechanics, planners, and production personnel to troubleshoot breakdowns, analyze failures, and restore equipment safely and efficiently.
Lead or support root-cause investigations and convert findings into prioritized corrective actions with assigned owners and verification of effectiveness.
Improve preventive and predictive maintenance tasks for electrical assets, controls hardware, motors, drives, panels, field devices, and network infrastructure.
Review CMMS history, downtime data, alarms, work orders, and spare-parts usage to identify reliability opportunities and bad actors.
Develop critical-spare recommendations and technical specifications; support vendor selection, repair-versus-replace decisions, and lifecycle planning for obsolete or unsupported equipment.
Provide technical escalation during significant equipment events and participate in the on-call rotation or planned weekend work after appropriate orientation and training.
Develop project scopes, alternatives, estimates, schedules, risk assessments, and technical justifications for capital and expense projects.
Lead or support equipment upgrades, installations, and modifications from concept through startup, including design reviews, procurement, acceptance testing, commissioning, punch-list closure, and turnover.
Coordinate multidisciplinary work involving mechanical systems, process requirements, electrical installation, controls integration, networking, utilities, and production constraints.
Ensure projects include appropriate guarding, interlocks, alarms, maintainability, safe access, energy-isolation provisions, and required documentation before final acceptance.
Monitor project cost and schedule; review technical quotations, purchase requisitions, change orders, invoices, and contractor deliverables within assigned authority.
Plan cutovers and startups with prerequisites, contingency plans, backups, rollback points, communications, and post-startup monitoring.
Integrate safety into design and troubleshooting through hazard review, risk assessment, management of change, pre-startup review, safe-work planning, and verification of safeguards.
Follow and reinforce lockout/tagout, electrical safe-work practices, arc-flash requirements, energized-work restrictions, line-of-fire controls, PPE requirements, and machine-startup procedures.
Escalate conditions that may affect safety functions, interlocks, protective devices, environmental controls, or stable process control; ensure temporary bypasses and equipment are not left undocumented or in service.
Support incident investigations, cause mapping, corrective-action development, audits, and closure of electrical or engineering findings.
Ensure contractor work is scoped, permitted, coordinated, monitored, and completed according to site safety and technical standards.
Create and maintain accurate electrical one-lines, schematics, panel drawings, loop diagrams, network drawings, device/IP registers, software revision records, equipment files, and as-built documentation.
Apply document control and revision practices to keep field systems, drawings, code, and configuration records aligned.
Develop troubleshooting guides, technical procedures, standards, job plans, and training materials for electricians and maintenance personnel.
Coach technicians in systematic troubleshooting, PLC/HMI navigation, drive diagnostics, electrical drawings, controls documentation, and safe work practices without replacing required qualifications or authorization.
Communicate technical risks, options, recommendations, and project status to technical and nontechnical stakeholders.
Participate in continuous-improvement, reliability, capital-planning, and manufacturing-systems roadmap activities.
Perform other related duties as assigned, including other duties assigned by the department manager.