Electrical Reliability Engineer

Responsibilities

 
As an Electrical Reliability Engineer at Eastman, you’ll support manufacturing plants to improve process and equipment reliability.  You’ll be assigned to a specific area of the plant and work with maintenance and operations area managers to identify, prioritize, and execute improvement opportunities. You’ll also partner closely with area maintenance, operations, and engineering to achieve reliability, failure elimination, and cost reduction goals.  

Job duties include but are not limited to:

• Partner closely with area operations and reliability personnel to improve equipment availability and process reliability reducing unplanned production losses.
• Provide engineered solutions to complex problems that increase equipment and process reliability.
• Work closely with area maintenance to target reliability and maintainability issues, reduce cost, and improve productivity.
• Provide support for plant outages and shutdowns as requested.
• Support initiatives in assigned area.
• Identify and prioritize opportunities for reliability improvements by mining information from SAP, reliability systems, and production logs.
• Lead Root Cause Failure Analysis (RCFA) investigations.
• Lead FMEA analyses on critical production assets.
• Provide reliability input to capital projects as requested.
• Provide technical leadership at all levels of the plant organization with special emphasis on interfacing with maintenance crews.
• Lead problem solving teams to identify, design and implement improvements.
• Work safely and promote the Eastman safety vision. 

Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science Degree (or higher) in Electrical Engineering 
• Strong basic engineering skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Must be highly motivated, self-directed, and able to manage own project portfolio.
• Desire to work in the field with maintenance, operations, and engineering personnel in response to urgent critical equipment troubleshooting.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office applications (especially Excel).
• Effective group facilitation and interpersonal skills, and the ability to work with and lead cross-functional working teams.
• Basic knowledge of common process equipment (motors, variable frequency drives, electrical wiring systems, etc.). Basic understanding of common predictive and diagnostic technologies for electrical equipment.
• Service-oriented and customer-focused.
• Strong commitment to personnel and process safety.
• Desire to learn new skills in reliability engineering principles, SAP, and root cause failure analysis methods