Electrical Reliability Engineer

ISP Technologies Inc.

Are you the kind of person that is always thinking, sketching, seeking, and adjusting? Who needs to understand how things work and then figure out how they can work better? Are you a passionate, tenacious, solver who loves to work with others who share your drive? Are you positive, constructive, and ingenious?

Are you always solving?

Then we’d like to meet you and bet you’d like to meet us.

Ashland has an exciting opportunity for an Instrumentation & Electrical Reliability Engineer to join our Life Sciences business.  This position will be based out of our Texas City, TX plant site.

This is a very visible, significant role within the Company and the manufacturing function and will report to the Maintenance Manager.

The responsibilities of the position include, but are not limited to, the following:


* Participating as integral part of Texas City Maintenance Team while supporting plant operation, reliability improvement, and reliability projects across the facility


* Working in a team environment, by implementing reliability best practices, developing, and optimizing preventive maintenance tasks, implementing reliability improvement projects, and supporting maintenance and turnaround activities


* Interacting with other technical groups on site (process engineering, maintenance, and capital project), corporate technical networks and peers, and vendors/suppliers as needed to resolve problems and improve plant reliability and performance.


* Applying data analysis techniques to develop engineering solutions to repetitive failures and other problems that adversely affect plant operations including capacity, quality, cost, safety, environmental, and regulatory compliance issues.


* Providing instrumentation and electrical technical support/expertise in design and installation stages of projects for new assets and modification of existing assets to minimize life cycle cost and maximize asset availability.


* Overseeing Instrument & Electrical maintenance programs, calibrations, and repairs required for plant instrumentation, analyzers, distributed control systems, safety instrumented systems, and electrical equipment related to process controls and environmental monitoring.


* Participating in the development of design and installation specifications, acceptance tests, inspection criteria, and commissioning plans for new equipment


* Maintaining awareness of emerging technology, assessing applicability to improve reliability and performance, or to reduce maintenance cost.


* Leading and participating in incident investigations and root cause analysis.


* Managing risk to the achievement of an organization's strategic objectives in the areas of environmental health and safety, asset capability, quality, and production.


* Applying principles to systematically define, design, develop, monitor, and refine an asset maintenance plan including:
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