Electrical Reliability Engineer

Marathon Petroleum Corporation • Mandan, ND

15h

About The Position

Marathon Petroleum Company is seeking an Electrical Reliability Engineer to support the Mandan Refinery and Dickinson Renewable Diesel Facility in North Dakota. This position is responsible for developing and executing plans, programs, and processes to maintain electrical equipment and systems across their lifecycle, reducing safety, environmental, and economic risk and ensuring compliance with applicable electrical codes and standards. The role provides technical support on high-priority reliability and operational issues and partners with cross-functional teams. Candidates should bring experience with industrial electrical systems (preferably refining/petrochemical) and a strong working knowledge of systems up to 15 kV, including electrical safety, hazardous area classification, power distribution/protection, motors/controls, and electrical studies. Familiarity with NEC, NFPA, IEEE, NEMA, and API standards are expected. This position reports to the Reliability Manager.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree (or higher) in Electrical Engineering from an accredited institution required.
• Minimum 2 years of post-degree relevant experience required with refining or petrochemical industry preferred.
• A valid driver's license is required.
• Routine travel between Mandan and Dickinson is required.
• Must be able to physically perform the essential job functions including, but not limited to, wearing all required PPE, working at elevated heights, confined space entry, fall protection, and respirator usage.
• Must be authorized to work in the US on a full-time indefinite basis without the need for employment visa sponsorship now or in the future.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, and Outlook required.
• Must have working knowledge of common industry standards, codes and practices such as, National Electrical Code (NEC), OSHA electrical codes, state codes, and NFPA 70E.
• Must have working knowledge of wiring terminology, conduits, and conduit hardware.
• Must understand electrical drawings, piping and instrumentation diagrams (P&ID), ladder logic and entry level programming.
• Experience performing electrical power system studies utilizing ETAP modeling.
• Familiarity with electrical maintenance and troubleshooting practices for industrial electrical applications.
• Must have strong initiative, leadership, and collaboration skills, with proactive troubleshooting and strategic/critical thinking to drive effective problem solving.
• Must be able to function in a team environment and effectively communicate with personnel of all levels and across multiple disciplines to include Engineering, Operations, and Maintenance.

Nice To Haves

• Knowledge of electrical distribution and substation design is preferred.
• Experience with specification, application and maintenance up to 15kV class electrical equipment.
• Minimum 2 years of post-degree relevant experience required with refining or petrochemical industry preferred.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical/troubleshooting assistance in resolving electrical design, operation and maintenance problems.
• Have the competency to recognize when other resources are required and be able to get the appropriate parties engaged.
• Be the champion of electrical safety for the sites.
• Manage the refinery’s electrical equipment preventative and predictive maintenance program. This includes establishing and maintaining equipment asset strategies for electrical infrastructure, such as monitoring plans, PM plans, PdM activities, etc.
• Provide technical expertise and lead investigations to solve recurring electrical equipment failures, reliability threats, and/or performance issues.
• Initiate and participate in management of change (MOC) reviews and incident investigations.
• Develop projects, and concepts for reliability improvement, prepare reports that monitor and track reliability indicators, provide technical resources and training to support our reliability programs.
• Support refinery turnarounds, including scope development, planning, reviews, material acquisition and execution of electrical work scopes.
• Develop and review turnaround worklists for inclusion of compliance-based testing requirements, maintenance activities & repairs, recommended upgrades & replacements, etc. of critical electrical assets.
• Support factory acceptance testing & site commissioning of electrical projects or major equipment, including during turnarounds.
• Maintain and manage the plant’s electrical model utilizing ETAP software, including management of the plant’s electrical equipment arc flash labeling program.
• Perform and/or review electrical system studies with emphasis on arc-flash analysis, protection and coordination, motor starting and short circuit studies.
• Communicate with personnel from different disciplines and grade levels, along with outside resources to obtain needed information or resolve issues.
• Review design drawings and construction packages for electrical related projects.
• Participate in technical reviews of vendor equipment drawings.
• Accountable for management and maintenance of electrical critical equipment list database.
• Maintain electrical equipment bad actor list.
• Develop and maintain final relay set points and logic configuration settings for site transmission, substation, and distribution systems.
• Provide leadership and decision-making skills during turnarounds and unplanned equipment outages regarding repair solutions.
• Support refinery in high impact unplanned electrical issues as required.
• Revalidate/write electrical testing procedures, maintenance procedures, QA/QC checklists, etc. to ensure reliability excellence via NETA requirements.

Benefits

• Marathon Petroleum offers a total rewards program which includes, but is not limited to, access to health, vision, and dental insurance, paid time off, 401k matching program, paid parental leave, and educational reimbursement.
• Detailed benefit information is available at https://mympcbenefits.com .
• The hired candidate will also be eligible for a discretionary company-sponsored annual bonus program.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees