Senior Electrical Engineer

About Gulf Coast Growth Ventures, Corpus Christi, TX

Gulf Coast Growth Ventures brings innovation to the Coastal Bend, while enhancing U.S. manufacturing infrastructure and producing materials that make high performance, everyday products possible. Our world-class facility was built with tomorrow in mind – modern, safe and responsible. Safety is our number one priority, and we’re committed to being a good neighbor to our thriving Coastal Bend community.
 

What role you will play in our team

The Electrical Engineer will be responsible for the optimization, troubleshooting, and design of a wide variety of electrical equipment to ensure safe, environmentally sound, reliable, and profitable operations. The Electrical Engineer will be responsible for supporting various business units with focus on non-routine and medium to long range objectives including, but not limited to, the following: troubleshooting complex process unit/electrical problems, leading improvement initiatives, and providing technical/engineering reviews.

What you will do

Job Role Responsibilities:

• Base Plant Support – Work with Operations, Maintenance, Engineering, and Process Technical groups to support base operations and serve as an electrical technology expert liaison for the site.
  • Provide engineering assistance to Maintenance and Process Technical as requested in troubleshooting and equipment repair efforts 
  • Identify and communicate vulnerabilities to responsible business teams
  • Support risk assessments, technical evaluations, and propose cost-effective solutions to vulnerabilities, or support acceptance
  • Participate in incident investigations, root cause failure analysis (RCFA), and equipment bad actor analysis
  • Leverage equipment strategies, known vulnerabilities, bad actors, and maintenance records/history to drive development of annual maintenance worklists, turnaround worklists, and/or capital projects for the electrical equipment class
  • Participate in turnarounds, investigation/improvement teams, and incident damage assessment and recovery
  • Assist in developing maintenance/operating procedures and technician training
• Projects – Support projects for new or replacement equipment through interfaces with Engineering, Maintenance, Operations, and Project Development teams.
  • Provide technical support for front-end development, cost estimation, design, construction, commissioning, and startup for projects, change packages, and turnarounds
  • Design and specify electrical equipment such as motors, breakers, protection relays, generators, substations, cables, motor starters, transformers, and other industrial electrical equipment (120V to 138kV)
• Reliability – Drive improvement in site electrical equipment class health and reliability
  • Serve as an electrical equipment champion for the site
  • Support reliability analysis & equipment class strategic improvements (e.g., long-term improvement plans, obsolescence plans)
  • Support opportunities for step-out technology assessment and deployment
  • Support interface with key third parties (e.g., external electrical utility company)
• Networking & Above Site Activities – Participate actively in the ExxonMobil electrical discipline network, external peer assists, and represent site electrical concerns/interests in broader site and/or network initiatives.

About you

Skills and Qualifications:

• 5+ years work experience in petrochemical production/manufacturing facilities with a general 
• B.S. in Electrical Engineering
• Strong leadership skills, self-motivated, shows initiative
• Enjoys working in a fast-paced environment with ability to plan and coordinate competing work activities and priorities
• Ability to work effectively in multicultural teams 
• Understanding of personnel safety, environmental, and process safety risks

Preferred Technical Knowledge, Skills and Behaviors:

• Ability to work with a wide variety of personnel at different levels of engineering, design, maintenance, operations, and management.
• Ability to work with internal customers as well as equipment suppliers and third-party service companies. 
• Ability to communicate effectively and clearly in both written and verbal form for the purpose of instructing/educating others in technical matters and obtaining cooperation from various personnel.
• Strong analytical and communication skills
• Willing to travel domestically and/or internationally in support of electrical equipment construction or repairs.
• Good interpersonal skills.
• Knowledge of electrical safety, design, and testing standards, including electrical hazardous area classification standards (e.g., NFPA, NEC, NETA, API).
• Knowledge and experience in performing power system modeling (e.g., SKM Power Tools), electrical power system studies, and protective relay coordination.
• Prefer candidate to have experience in chemical manufacturing and polymer production operations. 

Your benefits

An ExxonMobil career is one designed to last. Our commitment to you runs deep: our employees grow personally and professionally, with benefits built on our core categories of health, security, finance, and life.

We offer you: 

• Pension Plan: Enrollment is automatic and at no cost to you. The basic benefit is a monthly annuity to be paid to you in retirement for the rest of your life. 
• Savings Plan: You can contribute between 6% and 20% of your pay and are encouraged to enroll right away. If you contribute at least 6% to your savings plan, the Company will contribute a 7% match. 
• Workplace Flexibility: We have several programs such as “Flex your Day”, providing ad-hoc flexibility around when and where you work, as well as longer-term programs such as leaves of absence and part-time work.
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans. 
• Culture of Health: Programs and resources to support your wellbeing. 
• Employee Health Advisory Program: Provides confidential professional counseling for you and your family, including tools and resources promoting mental health and resiliency at no additional cost to you. 
• Disability Plan: Income replacement for when you cannot work due to illness or injury occurring on or off the job. Enrollment is automatic and at no cost to you.

More information on our Company’s benefits can be found at www.exxonmobilfamily.com. 

Please note benefits may be changed from time to time without notice, subject to applicable law.

Stay connected with us

Learn more at our website

Follow us on LinkedIN and Instagram 

Like us on Facebook 

Subscribe our channel at YouTube

Equal Opportunity Employer

ExxonMobil is an Equal Opportunity Employer.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, citizenship status, protected veteran status, genetic information, or physical or mental disability.