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POSITION OVERVIEW
This Lead Engineering Specialist, Electrical role supports technical activities within LNG Operations departments including Engineering Services, Reliability, Maintenance, and Production. The role is accountable for providing technical expertise, troubleshooting support, maintaining, improving electrical systems, updating associated documentation, and knowledge transfer to peers in the specific area of expertise. It is expected that this role will be primarily guided on day-day work activity by engineering resources in the Engineering Services and Reliability departments.
This is a non-DOT position.
RESPONSIBILITIES AND ESSENTIAL DUTIES
Provide Subject Matter Expertise and support for all conditions of the VFD system operating modes including start-ups, breakdowns, continuous operation, and maintenance windows. The below specific duties are required for the VFD system which includes equipment such as Variable Frequency Drive, VFD controls, cooling system, excitation, synchronizing unit, synchronous motor, transformers, VFD applicable switchgear and switchgear controls:
Work with electrical engineering resources to support maintenance activities, projects, and preparing work scopes.
Work with maintenance and operator technicians to provide technical capability and direction during troubleshooting and maintenance of equipment.
Assist in field coordination and work direction of contract activities.
Work with Reliability engineering to provide review of Maintenance Job Plans and develop necessary optimized improvement recommendations to meet operating criteria. Support resources in the execution and auditing/assessment of the maintenance strategies.
Develops scopes of work and prepares bills of material to support maintenance activities and contract efforts.
Performs equipment analysis and routine condition monitoring tasks in support of maintenance strategies.
Lead equipment failure investigations, review applicable failure analysis reports and recommendations.
Review vendor documentation for accuracy and ensure discrepancies are managed through document control processes.
Manage vendor documentation for maintenance, operation, and troubleshooting proficiency.
Support engineering changes within the Management of Change (MOC) Process.
The duties and responsibilities described are not a comprehensive list and additional tasks may be assigned to the employee from time to time, or the scope of the job may change as necessitated by business demands.
KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS
Knowledge:
Demonstrated expertise in understanding of industrial electrical systems including switchgear, transformers, distribution equipment, critical AC and DC power systems, breaker control schemes, relay protection schemes, motors, low voltage drives and soft starters, and standby power systems. Advanced knowledge of medium voltage, large power Variable Frequency Drives, Variable Frequency Drive control systems, synchronous motors, and synchronous motor excitation systems. Knowledge of site work processes and procedures will be developed.
Skills:
Exceptional leadership and administrative abilities are required.
An acute sensitivity to safety issues in a hazardous environment.
Effective communicator at all levels of an organization and with individuals and groups from different disciplines, industries and governmental agencies.
Exceptional written, verbal and interpersonal communication skills.
Organized and able to manage multiple projects.
Computer savvy including Microsoft Office Suite including Word, Excel, Access and PowerPoint.
EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE
Education and Certifications: Associate degree or higher in applicable electrical technology or bachelor's in electrical engineering or equivalent discipline, or a combination of applicable certifications and experience will be considered in lieu of degree.
Experience: At least eight (8+) years' experience as an electrical specialist or technician in the petrochemical, power or similar production industry with an applicable degree or ten (10) years without a degree. Proven VFD experience is required.
DIRECT REPORTS
No direct reports.
FREEDOM TO ACT
This position requires minimal supervision and must able to use sound judgement and decision making.
WORK CONDITIONS
Job is performed in an industrial plant setting.
Occasionally, work may be performed from home, after normal work hours or on weekends.
Limited travel required, as business conditions dictate.
Subject to drug and alcohol testing, per applicable federal regulations or as required by Cheniere.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is often required to stand, walk, sit, climb stairs, work at height above ground on stairs and catwalks, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, talk or hear, smell, type and write.
Must be able to board a ship via a gangway, climb to the top of a tank (200+ steps), scale vertical steel ladder up to forty feet or more in height and lift and move objects weighting up to 50 pounds.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee will work indoors and outdoors and be exposed to year-around weather conditions, ocean environment, and noise.
Specific vision abilities required include close vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus.
Required to obtain mandated certification by attending Company-sponsored training in basic first aid, and CPR.
Must maintain a Transportation Worker Identification Credential (TWIC) in good standing status.
ADA JOB REQUIREMENTS
Reasonable accommodations will be made to ensure that the essential functions of the job can be performed and not hinder the employee''s performance due to physical, mental, or emotional disability.
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY
Cheniere Energy is an equal opportunity workplace. All employment decisions are made without regard to sex, race, color, religion, national origin, citizenship, age, disability, marital or veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other legally protected categories. This includes providing reasonable accommodation if requested for disabilities or religious beliefs and practices.
Cheniere Energy is a global leader in LNG providing flexible, reliable and affordable energy to the world while powering the transition to a lower-carbon future.
We are a values-driven company that focuses on teamwork, respect, accountability, integrity, nimbleness, and above all, safety for our employees, our communities, and our assets.
Cheniere Energy's global impact is achieved through a diverse and passionate workforce that is invested in our company through our annual stock-grant program. Our high-performing employees are united by a shared mission, common goals and a culture of inclusion and caring.
Our comprehensive compensation and benefits offerings are competitive and strong, and they prioritize wellness and performance incentives that reward results. As an employee of Cheniere Energy, you will make an impact on our business and our communities.
A Fortune 500 company, Cheniere Energy is headquartered in Houston with U.S. offices in Lake Charles, Louisiana and Washington D.C.; production sites in Cameron, Louisiana and Gregory, Texas; and international offices in London, Singapore, Beijing and Tokyo.
Around the globe, countries, communities and companies want many of the same things: to be productive, healthy and safe. At Cheniere, we provide clean, secure and affordable energy to the world — energy that can reduce carbon emissions, help lead to cleaner air, and light homes and power factories — all manufactured and transported by modern energy infrastructure run by a world-class workforce.
The energy we make is liquified natural gas, or LNG. We began operations in 2016, and we’re already the largest producer of LNG in the United States and the second largest LNG operator in the world. Our LNG has reached dozens of markets on five continents, and the demand for our fuel is expected to grow as countries around the world seek cleaner ways to power their economies.
While you’ll find our headquarters in Houston, Texas, and our LNG facilities in Southwest Louisiana and South Texas, we are a global company with offices in London, Singapore, Washington, Beijing and Tokyo.
Cheniere’s energy infrastructure represents a more than $38 billion investment in the future of energy and is a demonstration of the company’s ability to execute. Cheniere established industry records for bringing new liquefaction units online ahead of schedule and is the fastest company to produce and export 1,000 cargoes of LNG.
Cheniere is operating, constructing and developing two LNG facilities on the U.S. Gulf Coast. These massive LNG facilities reliably and safely process billions of cubic feet of natural gas per day into LNG and load the liquid energy onto insulated ships that keep the product cold for their journeys around the world.
Cheniere’s Sabine Pass LNG facility, which is located in Cameron Parish in Southwest Louisiana, began export operations in 2016 and currently has six fully operational liquefaction units, or “trains.” With all six trains complete, the aggregate nominal production capacity of Sabine Pass is approximately 30 million tonnes per annum (mtpa) of LNG.
Cheniere’s Corpus Christi LNG facility in South Texas is the first greenfield LNG export facility in the U.S. lower 48 and began operations in 2018. All three Trains are operating, and the aggregate nominal production capacity of the Corpus Christi facility is approximately 15 mtpa of LNG.
What we do is provide LNG to customers, but how we do it makes us different. Cheniere is a full-service LNG provider.
We purchase natural gas from the robust, transparent and liquid North American gas market, process the natural gas into LNG, and offer our customers the option to load the LNG onto their vessels at our terminals, or we will deliver the LNG to regasification facilities around the world.
Approximately 85% of Cheniere’s expected aggregate LNG production capacity, either completed or under construction, is contracted through long-term take-or-pay style agreements with creditworthy counterparties. The remaining volumes of LNG we can produce are available for our integrated marketing unit to sell into the market. That gives Cheniere the unique combination of stability and opportunity — long-term, contracted, stable cash flows, plus marketing opportunities driven by shorter-term natural gas supply and demand fundamentals in markets worldwide.
Natural gas is transported to Cheniere’s LNG facilities on third-party pipelines on which we own firm transportation capacity, as well as on pipelines Cheniere has constructed, owns and operates.