Electrical Engineer

Join Reynolds Consumer Products…and Drive Your Career across a world of opportunities! We provide amazing job opportunities for growth with competitive salaries and benefits in an exciting, dynamic, fast-paced, and fun workplace environment. If you are looking to build a strong career, we have an opportunity for you! We currently have an opportunity for an Electrical Engineer to join our team located in Hot Springs, AR.

Your Role:

As an Electrical Engineer, you will be a key influencer of manufacturing process control and automation for the plant. You will have the chance to apply your technical skills to implement new designs and projects and provide tactical support to improve plant safety and OEE. This position reports directly to the Electrical Engineering Group Leader. We embrace and accept individual experiences and backgrounds to achieve a diverse and inclusive workplace.

You will have the opportunity to:

• Manage capital projects utilizing project management life cycle.
• Drive projects to completion while maintaining timeline, budget, and meeting project objectives.
• Create capital acquisition requests, project scopes of work, RFQs, process functional specifications, project and life cycle cost estimates, project justifications, and manage purchase order requisitions.
• Develop process functional specifications, control sequence of operations and narratives.
• Determine layouts of control cabinets for PLCs and touchscreen interfaces and generate electrical wiring schematics.
• Support electrical design, scope, coordination, and execution of projects.
• Communicate effectively in writing, including formulation and review/approval of official and technical correspondence, reports, and presentations.
• Participate and/or facilitate maintainability and design reviews, FAT’s/SAT’s, turnover package reviews and ensure project documentation is accurate, complete and meets specifications.
• Design control systems that utilize good engineering practices and follow all applicable regulatory and safety requirements.
• Develop process control schemes, create programmable controller logic, and design Human Machine Interface (HMI) graphics.
• Create, modify, and troubleshoot function block diagrams, ladder logic, and structured text for rolling mill control systems.
• Perform I/O check out, IP addressing, start-up, and commissioning of automation equipment and controls.
• Setup and troubleshoot integration and networking of PCs, HMIs, PLCs, and third-party devices.
• Lead, coach, and influence the development of fellow technical resources and area team members.
• Participate in process area team FMEAs, RCAs, and Safety Taproots.
• Support the daily needs of maintaining plant performance by prioritizing and providing engineering support to plant maintenance and operations as needed.
• Support developmental needs identified within our maintenance organization.
• Create and/or assist in developing technical documents to assist maintenance and operations.
• Update plant electrical drawings and electrical specifications.
• Support troubleshooting of rolling process control equipment on-site and/or remotely.

Ultimately, you will be an expert resource for all electrical things in our plant and will also make suggestions for improving our efficiency. We strive to build a diverse, inclusive, and talented workforce who will contribute to the Company’s vision, mission, and goals.

You will love it here if…

• You put safety first, always
• You listen, learn, and evolve
• You are passionate about collaboration, teamwork, and achieving shared goals
• You believe in treating all people with respect, operating ethically, and growing a diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace
• You are committed to improving our impact on local communities and creating positive experiences

We need you to have:

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical, Controls, or Automation Engineering (ABET accredited), Computer Science, or related field.
• 3+ years of plant engineering experience in a manufacturing environment.
• Project engineering experience in a manufacturing environment.
• Ability to understand, interpret, and troubleshoot complex process control schemes and electrical equipment.
• Good written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to translate technical information to a non-technical audience.
• MS Office and AutoCAD experience.
• ABB and Siemens software and hardware experience.
• Rockwell/Allen Bradley drive and PLC experience.
• Wonderware InTouch HMI programming experience.
• Integrating and networking PCs and PLCs (TCP/IP, Ethernet, ControlNet, DeviceNet, Modbus, etc.) experience.
• Experience in design, installation, and troubleshooting of electrical power distribution, AC and DC drives, Wonderware, and automation.
• Knowledge and application of NFPA/NEC, ANSI machine safety, and/or other RAGAGEP codes or standards.

Icing on the cake:

• Master’s degree or other advanced degree.
• Experience with manufacturing processes related to rolling mills, processing or slitting of coiled or non-coiled metal, sheet/strip handling equipment, and/or winder and unwinder controls.
• ABB DCS experience.
• Process Data Acquisition software (iBA PDA, Wonderware Historian (AVEVA), etc.).

Want to know more? Check out our website or connect with us on LinkedIn!

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