Senior Electrical Engineer

We are the world's largest hydrogen producer with over 80 years of industrial gas experience. We are hydrogen and industrial gas experts delivering safe, end-to-end solutions, investing in real, clean energy projects at scale, and driving the industry forward to generate a cleaner future.

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Purpose

To provide primary technical on-site support, organization of work process and procedure for safe, reliable, and efficient operation and maintenance of all electrical equipment installed and operating at our facilities in Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore (SEA) and at any other facilities as directed by Regional Electrical Engineering Manager.

Primary Responsibilities

• Ensure efficient and effective implementation of all electrical safe work practices and standards in keeping with worldwide practices.
• Provide and execute training and qualification programs of all plant based operation and maintenance personnel whose duties involve handling and interrogation of electrical equipment such as medium voltage switchgear, low voltage control center and similar equipment.
• Provide technical solutions through remote and / or on-site location support for the safe and reliable operation of electrical equipment to operation and maintenance team; including analysis of equipment operation, troubleshooting of equipment failure, and driving any changes to achieve more reliable operations.
• Ensure safe execution of technical changes and modification to electrical equipment and system as needed for continuous on-stream operation of process equipment and systems
• Provide technical leadership to plant management team through timely provision of information, drawings, manuals, and other documentation for safe and competent repair and troubleshooting of failed electrical equipment and systems.
• Manage, implement, execute projects and initiatives as directed by Regional Management in conjunction with sub-region Operations Management.
• Active participation in the equipment failure root cause investigation teams, playing a lead role to prevent non-recurrence of equipment failure in all plants.

Job Requirements

Due to the many different electrical equipment present on air separation plant and hydrogen generation sites, technical competencies are required in varying degrees. Starting competencies at time of hiring are defined as follows :

High proficiency in :

i.     medium voltage switchgear including troubleshooting with schematic drawings, protection relaying functionality, circuit breaker operations

ii.    low voltage motor and equipment control and operation from motor control gears in Motor control center

iii.    knowledge of electrical equipment and its installation in electrically classified hazardous area

iv.    Variable frequency drives – low voltage

v.     Medium voltage motor partial discharge analysis

vi.    Root cause analysis techniques and reporting knowledge

i.     Induction motor operations, constructions and repairs

ii.    Electrical network operations and switching philosophies

iii.    Uninterruptible Power Supplies

iv.    Power transformers

v.     Electric heaters

i.     Synchronous generator operations

ii.    Medium voltage soft-starters and variable frequency drives

iii.    Installations methods of electrical equipment

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