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Regional Electrical Engineer

Drax Group


Job Location:

Monroe, VA - USA

Monthly Salary: Not provided by the employer
Posted: 16 September 2026 (7 days ago)
Application Deadline: 14 December 2026
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Regional Electrical Engineer
Location: Monroe Louisiana
Travel: Approximately 33% across five Southern Region manufacturing facilities

About the Role
Were looking for an experienced Regional Electrical Engineer to provide technical leadership and engineering support for electrical infrastructure across five manufacturing facilities.
In this highly visible regional role youll serve as a subject-matter expert for industrial electrical power systemshelping improve safety reliability asset performance and long-term infrastructure capability. Youll partner with plant engineering maintenance operations automation and controls and capital project teams while providing hands-on support for complex electrical challenges.

What Youll Do
  • Lead electrical reliability and lifecycle strategies for critical assets.
  • Troubleshoot complex electrical failures outages power-quality issues and recurring equipment problems.
  • Support compliance with NEC NFPA 70E OSHA IEEE and applicable electrical safety requirements.
  • Support arc-flash short-circuit protective-device coordination grounding and other electrical system studies.
  • Provide technical oversight for medium- and low-voltage system designs and modifications.
  • Support capital projects from scope development and design reviews through commissioning and startup.
  • Assess plant electrical capacity infrastructure constraints obsolescence risks and future upgrade requirements.
  • Review electrical drawings including single-line diagrams three-phase distribution drawings and motor schematics.
  • Develop and standardize electrical engineering practices across multiple facilities.
  • Coach plant electricians technicians and maintenance teams while sharing best practices across the region.

What Youll Bring
  • Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering or a closely related engineering discipline.
  • 5 years of industrial or manufacturing electrical systems experience.
  • Strong knowledge of medium- and low-voltage power distribution.
  • Experience with switchgear transformers MCCs substations motors protection systems and electrical distribution.
  • Knowledge of electrical studies including short circuit coordination arc flash load flow and grounding.
  • Working knowledge of NEC NFPA 70E IEEE standards OSHA requirements and electrical safety practices.
  • Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot complex electrical equipment and system failures.
  • Experience supporting capital projects through commissioning.
  • Strong analytical problem-solving communication and collaboration skills.
  • Willingness to travel among five operating facilities and provide occasional outage/on-call support.

Preferred
  • Experience with 2 kV35 kV medium-voltage systems.
  • Electrical reliability or asset-management experience.
  • Protection and relay systems experience.
  • Power monitoring and power-quality experience.
  • Experience with ETAP SKM EasyPower or similar engineering software.
  • Experience with major industrial infrastructure projects plant expansions or multi-site engineering initiatives.

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