Regional Electrical Engineer
Monroe, VA - USA
Job Summary
Travel: Approximately 33% across five Southern Region manufacturing facilities
- 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.
- 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.
- 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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About Company
Our purpose is to enable a zero carbon, lower cost energy future. Our ambition is to become carbon negative by 2030.