Electrical Engineer

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Air Liquide Large Industries provides our customers with industrial gas and energy solutions that are vital to their own industrial production. We own and operate over 2,000 miles of industrial gas pipelines in the U.S. supplying mainly oxygen, nitrogen, hydrogen and syngas in large quantities from multiple production sources to major customers in the chemicals, petrochemicals, refining and steel industries. Our pipeline operations and industrial gas production facilities are closely monitored 24/7 within our leading-edge operations control center located in Houston, Texas. Our operations control group monitors over 89,000 data points and assists with product supply and coordination. We are constantly optimizing our supply network to provide high reliability and energy efficiencies allowing Air Liquide to adjust supply needs more quickly and effectively enabling growth to our customers.

At Air Liquide we RESPECT, HONOR and VALUE diversity.

Air Liquide is hiring for a Instrumentation and Electrical Engineer in Houston, TX.

We are looking for you!

Comprehensive Family Benefits: Air Liquide offers a full benefits package designed to support your whole life, including Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, AD&D, and Disability Insurance.
Future Security: 401(k) Retirement Plan with company match, Tuition Assistance, Paid Holidays, Vacation, and Sick time.
Early Access: Your benefits start on the first day of employment.

Job Responsibilities:

• Monitor changes to FERC and NERC rules to ensure compliance by the company with policies and applicable regulations and laws. Report results to management and make recommendations to ensure ongoing compliance.
• Maintain electronic maintenance records for electrical equipment for filing to ensure that regulatory and compliance reports are filed timely and correctly
• Provide guidance to the compliance team concerning issues related to NERC/FERC policies, procedures and standards and escalate issues to management or other functional areas as needed.
• Identify engineered resolutions to recurring electrical issues within LI
• Lead and participate in electrical engineering activities that improve the reliability of Air Liquide assets and optimize maintenance costs
• Responsible for the operations and maintenance support of electrical power distribution systems, including high voltage substations, transformers, switchgear, motors, motor control centers, lighting, grounding, electrical wiring, and hazardous area classification.
• Provide electrical engineering support for Air Liquide America operating plants and perform electrical engineering for operations support
• Provide technical support to Operations, Maintenance, Production, and Project Managers. Establishes standards, national agreements, supplier agreements, electrical safety, system protection and provides all electrical engineering services for Operations and Production facilities
• Perform electrical calculations, relay settings, engineers, and preliminarily designs changes to support reliability improvement projects.
• The successful applicant will be responsible for the preparation of computer-based models and performing power system studies on industrial electrical power distribution systems, including: stability (transient & dynamic), long/short range planning studies, short circuit, load flow, arc flash, motor starting, power factor, harmonic analysis and other related studies.
• Perform all phases of protection engineering including tasks such as: develop and maintain system models, calculate available fault current and circuit breaker interrupting duty, determine and issue relay settings, maintain complete records of settings and calculations, etc.
• Assist with engineering studies and investigations and assists with preparing oral and written reports.
• Establish and maintain equipment condition assessment information for high yards and high voltage motors
• Provide technical assistance to field personnel in the areas of high voltage distribution equipment and high voltage motors
• Provide engineering assistance to other departments and perform any additional responsibilities as requested or assigned.
• Provide technical input to assist in development of project planning.
• Participate in improving the electrical safety program for Air Liquide.
• Perform electrical Audits and participates in incident investigations
• Perform Arc-Flash studies
• Attend conferences and seminars as appropriate to share ideas and issues with other industry protection engineers, keep abreast of the latest developments, advance the state of protective relaying, and promote the interests of Air Liquide.
• Provide technical guidance to operating plants from a corporate level on Local, National, & International Codes, Standards, Policies, and Procedures

Accountabilities:

• 100% compliance with ALA safety and environmental standards
• Assigned small projects and action items
• Electrical Asset Life Extension programs
• Compliance with all ALA and government regulations

Recruiter: Alessandra Manrique / alessandra.manrique@airliquide.com/ 281-468-8286

Requirements:

• Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering, required
• Understanding of medium/high voltage motors and distribution systems
• Working knowledge of electrical codes and standards such as IEC, ISA, NEC, IEEE, etc.
• In-depth knowledge of industry regulatory rules and regulations (FERC and NERC); U.S. state regulatory requirements and administrative procedures.
• Quickly learns new relevant industry, legal and regulatory information and applies knowledge to specific issues or situations.
• Knowledge of ERCOT nodal markets and requirements
• Excellent planning and organizational skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• 5+ years in industrial electrical design and/or operations.
• Experience in the use of Microsoft office application
• Ability to work with other engineering groups within Company, utilize Company's engineering computer tools and quickly become familiar with Company's electric system, construction methods and design standards.
• Candidates must have valid employment authorization in the U.S. and must not require visa sponsorship now or in the future. This position is not open for non-immigrant visa sponsorship.

Preferred:

• Prior industrial gas experience.

Core Competencies / Most Typical Behavior Exhibited:

• Customer Service Orientation (CSO) / Is responsive and proactive to the needs of Operations
• Teamwork and Cooperation (TW)/ Is a team builder and leads through example
• Achievement Motivation (ACH) / Sets challenging goals and works toward meeting them.
• Integrity (INTEG) / Is honest in all aspects of the job
• Organizational Commitment (OC) / Actively promotes reliability improvement to all people in the organization
• Flexibility (FLX) / Adapts to the current business need
• Initiative (INT) / Thinks and acts proactively to find ways to improve the maintenance organization or its efficiency

Key Competencies:

• Expertise (EXP) / Is the leader and local expert in the maintenance and repair of electrical equipment
• Self Control (SCT) / Responds constructively in all situations
• Listening and Responding (LR) / Listens to the needs and concerns of others and reacts appropriately
• Discretionary Effort (DE) / Works above the need, striving for excellence
• Impact and Influence (IMP) / The results of the work effort produces improvements
• Conceptual Thinking (CT) / Applies complex concepts to actual situations
• Analytical Thinking (AT) / Able to break down complex problems to the simplest form
• Information Seeking / Works diligently to get the necessary information to be able to perform the desired analysis

Our Differences make our Performance

At Air Liquide, we are committed to build a diverse and inclusive workplace that embraces the diversity of our employees, our customers, patients, community stakeholders and cultures across the world.

We welcome and consider applications from all qualified applicants, regardless of their background. We strongly believe a diverse organization opens up opportunities for people to express their talent, both individually and collectively and it helps foster our ability to innovate by living our fundamentals, acting for our success and creating an engaging environment in a changing world.