Onsite Electrical Engineer – Elmore, OH
Job Type: Full-time
Schedule: 40-hour work week, Monday through Friday
Office Location: Elmore, OH (Materion – 14710 W Portage River South Rd, Elmore, OH 43416)
Salary: Commensurate with experience. Target salary range $100K-$140K, annually.
Job Description
RPA Engineering is seeking an Electrical Engineer, to provide full-time onsite support at Materion, one of our world-class industrial clients. Under the direction of the Facilities Engineering and Support Services Manager, the Facilities Electrical Engineer will play a key role in managing and executing capital projects and providing project management expertise for the Elmore, OH facility. This position will focus on leading and supporting capital and expense projects, ensuring successful delivery from concept to completion. The candidate will apply leadership skills and technical knowledge to drive project execution, with a focus on instrumentation, controls, and data acquisition systems.
Education & Experience
Required
- BS Electrical Engineering or Electrical Engineering Technology, or equivalent.
- 3-10 years of experience managing electrical capital and major maintenance projects for Metals manufacturing facilities.
- Strong background in industrial instrumentation, control, and data acquisition systems design.
- Hands-on experience with HMI screen development and PLC programming.
- Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously, meet deadlines, and deliver results.
Preferred
- Familiarity with Allen Bradley, Automation Direct, and GE PLCs, as well as GE iFix, GE Cimplicity, and Wonderware HMIs, is highly desired.
- Understanding of manufacturing processes, systems and technologies.
Tasks, Responsibilities, and Utilized Skills
- Capital Project Management: Lead the planning, design, and execution of capital projects, ensuring alignment with business objectives, budgets, and timelines.
- Project Leadership: Serve as Project Lead for multi-disciplinary and single-discipline projects, including developing project scopes, estimating costs and work hours, coordinating resources, and managing project schedules.
- Technical Oversight: Develop technical specifications and data sheets, evaluate vendor bids, and recommend best-value designs that meet operational, reliability, maintainability, and safety requirements.
- Field Leadership: Oversee field installations, conduct inspections, and resolve technical issues during project execution.
- Stakeholder Collaboration: Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including production, maintenance, and external suppliers, to ensure project success and alignment with facility needs.
- Troubleshooting and Support: Provide technical expertise to troubleshoot and resolve issues with instrumentation, control, and data acquisition systems.
- Technology Evaluation: Identify and evaluate new technologies to improve the performance and reliability of systems and processes.
- Standards Development: Create and implement standards and procedures to ensure consistency and long-term sustainability of instrumentation, control, and data acquisition systems.
- EH&S Integration: Actively contribute to the Materion Elmore site Environmental, Health & Safety System to ensure compliance and safe project execution.
- Perform other duties and responsibilities as assigned.
- Strong communication and team skills necessary in working with equipment suppliers, contractors and in sharing project information with internal departments.
- Strong organizational, problem solving and interpersonal skills to effectively contribute to executing projects.
- Possess analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills. Understand and analyze process systems and equipment, while using data to drive decisions.
Company Benefits
- Paid time off, sick time, and overtime
- Paid parental leave
- 401(k) matching
- Additional deferred compensation
- Insurance plans (health, dental, vision, life, etc.)
RPA Engineering is a professional engineering consulting firm offering comprehensive engineering and design services in structural, mechanical, plumbing, fire protection, electrical, process/industrial, machine design, controls & automation, project management, and commissioning, qualification and validation (CQV), for a multitude of industries. Operating for more than 35 years, RPA provides high quality, cost-effective engineering and design services from its multiple locations; and onsite corporate services.
RPA Engineering was named in 2010 to the Inc. 5000 list of fastest growing U.S. based entrepreneurial companies. As part of the list, RPA Engineering was named as one of the top 100 Engineering firms in the country.
RPA Engineering is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer of protected veterans (M/F/D/V).
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Posting #: 26-003