Senior Principal Electrical Engineer

Air Products • Allentown, PA

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About The Position

At Air Products, our purpose is to bring people together to reimagine what’s possible, collaborate and innovate solutions to the world’s most significant energy and environmental sustainability challenges. Grow with us as we embark on building tomorrow together by being the safest, most diverse and most profitable industrial gas company in the world. Air Products and Chemicals, Inc., a Fortune 500 manufacturer of industrial gases, has an immediate opening for a Senior Principle Electrical Engineer. This is a senior level engineering position in the Electrical Engineering group designing industrial power systems for industrial gas plants. The Electrical Engineering group is responsible for specifying, purchasing, and commissioning the electrical distribution equipment and large motors associated with cryogenic, hydrogen, cogeneration, and process gas plants. Air Products is the world’s largest hydrogen producer with over 80 years of industrial gas experience, delivering safe, end-to-end solutions, investing in real, clean energy projects at scale, and driving the industry forward to generate a cleaner future. At Air Products, we work in an environment where we put safety first, diversity is essential, inclusion is our culture, and each person knows they belong and matter.

Requirements

• Bachelors Degree in Electrical Engineering with 7 - 10 years’ experience in design of industrial electrical power systems.
• Professional Engineer license is required.
• Computer literate and experienced in the use of SKM Power Tools, MS Word, and MS Excel.
• Candidate must be self-motivated, able to work with the appropriate level of supervision and accept a high degree of personal responsibility for results.
• Able to work within a matrix engineering team environment and communicate effectively with team members, project managers and customers.
• Candidate must have the ability to self-execute all electrical engineering and oversee design within a given project as well as lead a team of electrical engineers and designers on larger, more complex projects.
• This position requires knowledge and application of switchgear, motor control centers, transformers, motors, and generators used in industrial power systems as well as the ability to prepare and interpret specifications related to such equipment.
• Must have knowledge and experience in performing detailed power system engineering studies.

Nice To Haves

• CA license a plus.

Responsibilities

• Development of electrical single line diagrams and overall plant electrical distribution systems.
• Coordination with utility and/or customer to develop required power for operating plants.
• Specifying and purchasing key electrical equipment such as medium and low voltage switchgear and motor control centers, transformers, VFD’s, UPS systems, DC systems, etc. Responsibilities include writing purchase specifications, evaluating quotations, performing technical bid evaluations, vendor document review, and factory acceptance testing.
• Specifying large induction and synchronous motors and starting systems including reduced voltage autotransformers, reactor start, electronic soft-start/VFD/LCI, etc.
• Specifying and integrating gas turbine and steam turbine generators for co-generation within process plants.
• Performing electrical system studies including short circuit, load flow, transient motor start, protection relay coordination, and arc flash, and creating appropriate protective device settings.
• Provide start-up and commissioning support for electrical distribution equipment and motors.

Benefits

• comprehensive benefits package including paid holidays and vacation, affordable medical, dental, life insurance and retirement plans.
• You will be eligible for benefits and also be 100% vested in your retirement benefits on your first day of employment.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior