Senior Instrumentation Engineer Jobs in Clarkston, WA

Where you will work

Lewiston is Clearwater Paper’s original manufacturing facility and home to nearly 700 dedicated team members who power our site. Together, we make paperboard used in products across the United States, including food packaging, plates, cups and more. Home to the first mill that produced poster board from wood waste, the site currently operates two paper machines, two extruders, two power boilers and two recovery boilers.

Located where the Snake and Clearwater rivers meet on the Idaho-Washington border, Lewiston offers an active outdoor lifecycle with easy access to fishing, boating, hiking and camping. The region’s milder climate means more rain than snow in the winter and long, sunny days in the summer.

Living here means you’ll be close to Lewis-Clark State College, University of Idaho, Washington State University, and Walla Walla Community College, as well as strong local K–12 school districts.

What you will do

The Senior Electrical Reliability Engineer is responsible for managing the facilities power distribution systems and associated assets and helping to drive improvement in all areas of the mill.

Project & Operations Support 

• Demonstrate safe work practices
• Work as a liaison between Maintenance, Operations, and Engineering teams
• Work as a strategic partner in the electrical and instrumentation department primarily in failure prevention and long-term support
• Provides technical assistance to production, reliability and quality groups as needed to solve equipment and process-related problems and develops methods to improve processes
• Assists E&I Maintenance Supervisors and Planners with technical maintenance issues
• Optimize manufacturing processes by investigating and eliminating root causes of equipment failures
• MOC Champion to review, lead, or assist as needed

Reliability 

• Work with condition monitoring program to reduces RED’s list (Vibration, IR, etc.)
• Work with system analysis tools and vendors to better the system power quality
• Support site power system study and model updates (Relay Protection, Easy Power Model, etc.)
• Help to establish maintenance best practices
• Perform BDA/RCA/RCFA/5-Whys/defect elimination on contributors of yield, utilization, and capacity losses due to failures attributed to equipment, processes, etc.
• Identify and resolve chronic failures (bad actors) through BDA/RCA/RCFA/5-Whys/defect elimination
• Establish and monitor predictive maintenance program (PM Optimization)
• Calculate asset life-cycle and costs on bad actors
• Perform criticality analysis work
• Work with other disciplines within the reliability team to update and improve current criticality model
• Define critical spares and BOM’s as needed
• Verify critical spare list is updated annually. Work with engineering to verify BOM’s are in place after commissioning
• Conduct asset risk/health analysis
• Create and Update Assets within JDE (as needed)
• Create low voltage PM scope for major outage annually
• To include MCC, emergency generators, switchgear, UPS systems, transformers, and battery backups
• Work with electrical and instrumentation crews to crew better work flow follow up
• Maintain transformer health assessments and optimizations
• Develop/Update Switching Orders – Standard/Non-Standard LOTO

Leadership 

• Assist in the management of the Predictive and Preventative Maintenance programs including vibration coverage through the mill, plant tank integrity, pressure vessel integrity, and pre-post failure reports
• Work as a strategic partner in the electrical and instrumentation department primarily in failure prevention and long-term support
• Weekend Duty and overtime as needed – Must call in to weekend status update meetings and provide onsite support as required
• Manages capital projects as required
• Facilitate Reliability Steering Teams

Key Competencies & Attributes 

• Actively seeks and allocates appropriate decision-making authority or task responsibility to appropriate individuals based on their abilities, availability, motivation, and development needs; considers potential positive and negative impact, business unit priorities, organizational values, and the opportunity to enhance others’ knowledge and skills
• Possesses strong troubleshooting skills
• Understands power distribution systems and major components
• Understands protection and coordinated trip settings
• Prior experience with electrical diagnostics – IR Thermography, partial discharge, power quality analysis
• Prior experience with medium and low voltage drives
• Creates relevant options for addressing problems and opportunities that will achieve desired outcomes
• Systematically evaluates business opportunities, targeting those with the greatest potential for producing positive business results

What you will need

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering required
• 7+ years of experience in engineering, preferably in the paper industry and preferably reliability engineering experience
• Proficient in Easy Power, Microsoft Office Word and Excel
• AutoCAD experience preferred
• Demonstrated ability to effectively work with vendors, managers, and production employees to achieve goals
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Capable of managing Process Safety Management programs
• Familiar with and have a good working knowledge of construction and repair codes (NEC, NFPA 70E, IEEE, IEC, NEMA)
• Knowledgeable with maintenance best practices (vibration analysis, oil analysis, etc.) preferred
• Must be capable of understanding and troubleshooting complex industrial systems and equipment
• Understanding of LEAN manufacturing and Continuous Improvement (CI) concepts preferred
• Professional Engineering license preferred
• High speed manufacturing environment, sustained exposure to high frequency noises, multiple hours standing, walking on concrete surfaces
• Personal Protective Equipment required in mill environment
• Dirt, noise, odor, and temperature extremes
• Climbing stairs, ladders, and scaffolding
• Exposure to hazardous chemicals used in manufacturing process

Total Rewards Details

We prioritize an exceptional workplace experience, offering a comprehensive total reward package.  This position is eligible for our Incentive Plan. Compensation ranges are estimates based on market data.  Actual offers account for internal equity and candidate’s job-related knowledge, skills, education, experience, and geographic location. Benefits, including medical, dental, vision, and more, generally begin after 30 days. Our paid time off will include vacation days, personal days, and company holidays. For more on our compensation philosophy, please reach out to our Talent Acquisition Team at Talent.Acquisition@clearwaterpaper.com.

Clearwater Paper will not offer sponsorship for employment-based visa status (including, but not limited to, H-1B visa status and other employment-based nonimmigrant visas) for this position.  Accordingly, all applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis and must not require Clearwater Paper's sponsorship to continue to work legally in the United States. 

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This role will be open for a minimum of 2 weeks or at the point a successful candidate is selected.