Electrical Manager

Quikrete Heavy Construction Materials•Harleyville, SC

1d•Onsite

About The Position

We are looking for an Electrical Manager to join our team Harleyville, SC. As an Electrical Manager with Quikrete Heavy Construction Materials, you will be responsible for ensuring safe, reliable, and cost-effective operation of all electrical, automation, and control systems supporting continuous cement production. The role combines technical leadership, asset management, safety compliance, and strategic planning.

Requirements

Must be able to Align electrical strategy with plant reliability, cost, and sustainability goals.
Must be able to Develop skills matrices, training plans, and succession planning.
Must be able to Optimize plant power consumption and energy intensity (kWh/ton).
Perform scheduled Preventative Maintenance (PMs) following OEM and company standards.
Must be able to Ensure compliance with NFPA 70E, NEC, MSHA/OSHA, and corporate safety standards.

Responsibilities

Ensure compliance with NFPA 70E, NEC, MSHA/OSHA, and corporate safety standards.
Own and enforce LOTO, arc-flash studies, labeling, and PPE programs.
Lead electrical incident investigations and corrective actions.
Ensure contractor electrical safety qualification and site compliance.
Maintain high availability of MV/LV power distribution (substations, MCCs, switchgear), VFDs, soft starters, motor systems, PLCs, DCS, SCADA, field instrumentation, analyzers (gas, process, emissions).
Develop and execute preventive & predictive maintenance programs.
Lead RCA for electrical-related downtime.
Manage obsolescence and lifecycle replacement strategies.
Optimize plant power consumption and energy intensity (kWh/ton).
Manage utility interconnection, demand control, power quality, harmonics, and grounding, backup power and critical loads, support CO₂ reduction initiatives through electrification and optimization.
Lead or support electrical scope for kiln, mill, cooler, alternative fuel projects, substation upgrades, plant expansions, digitalization, automation upgrades.
Define electrical standards, specifications, and FAT/SAT requirements.
Manage contractors, budgets, schedules, and commissioning.
Ensure seamless integration with existing plant systems.
Lead electrical, automation, and instrumentation teams.
Develop skills matrices, training plans, and succession planning.
Drive standard work, job plans, and CMMS accuracy.
Coordinate closely with Mechanical, Production, and Process teams.
Drive adoption of condition monitoring, remote diagnostics, cybersecurity best practices (OT security).
Improve maintenance KPIs for Electrical downtime, MTBF / MTTR, planned vs reactive work, support data-driven decision making using plant systems.
Serve as technical authority for ABB, Siemens, Rockwell, Schneider, etc.
Evaluate new technologies and solutions.
Manage service contracts and long-term partnerships.
Ensure documentation, spares strategy, and technical support readiness.
Align electrical strategy with plant reliability, cost, and sustainability goals.
Support long-term plant master planning.
Provide technical input to leadership for investment decisions.