Electrical Reliability Team Lead

Responsibilities

AND Accountabilities This position is accountable for understanding, demonstrating, and promoting the INEOS 20 Principles. This role is expected to foster a strong culture of safety, ownership, and continuous improvement by ensuring these principles are consistently applied across the Electrical Reliability Team and contractor workforce.

Responsibilities and Accountabilities Safety, Compliance, and Leadership Champion SHE performance and ensure compliance across all electrical maintenance, testing, and switching activities. Demonstrate and promote the INEOS 20 Principles throughout the Electrical Reliability Team and contractor workforce. Ensure direct reports meet all training, action item closure, PSM, and safety compliance requirements.

• Participate in and support internal and external audits, including 20 Principles, PSM, Insurance, and Electrical Safety reviews.
• Foster a culture of safety, accountability, and continuous improvement.
• Team Leadership and Development Lead, develop, and mentor Electrical Reliability personnel to build technical capability and support succession planning.

• Provide formal and on-the-job training for EDS Technicians, Electrical Maintenance personnel, Reliability personnel, and Operations.
• Effectively balance team leadership responsibilities with direct technical contribution when required.
• Drive employee engagement, performance improvement, and professional development.

• Electrical Distribution System Ownership Serve as the site owner for the Electrical Distribution System (EDS), ensuring safe, reliable, and compliant operation.
• Develop, review, and approve electrical switching orders.
• Maintain ownership of the site electrical system model, including arc flash, coordination, short-circuit, and load-flow studies.
• Ensure PowerDB records and electrical asset documentation remain current and accurate.

• Develop and maintain EDS procedures, standards, and work practices.
• Ensure electrical equipment strategies and preventive maintenance programs comply with Mechanical Integrity requirements and are properly maintained in SAP.
• Reliability and Technical Excellence Manage electrical reliability programs, including transformer DGA, partial discharge analysis, and substation battery programs.

Provide technical expertise to Operations, Maintenance, and Capital Projects, including troubleshooting, diagnostics, testing, failure analysis, and equipment specification. Oversee QA/QC for electrical maintenance and testing activities. Lead investigations of significant electrical equipment failures and develop corrective actions. Support development and implementation of long-term reliability strategies for electrical assets.

• Turnarounds, Projects, and Reliability Improvements Ensure effective planning, prioritization, and execution of Electrical Reliability Department activities.
• Provide electrical reliability support for turnaround planning, budgeting, and execution.
• Support capital project scoping, design reviews, commissioning, and startup activities.

• Lead maintenance-led capital and expense projects from concept development through commissioning and closeout.
• Develop scopes of work and support Management of Change (MOC) activities.
• Coordinate resources to meet operational, maintenance, and project objectives.
• Education & Experience Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or a related engineering discipline required.

Minimum five (5) years of electrical maintenance, reliability, or power distribution experience in a manufacturing, petrochemical, power generation, or related industrial environment. Working knowledge of electrical distribution systems ranging from 480V through 138kV. Proficiency with electrical testing, troubleshooting, protective relaying, and reliability programs.

• Experience with electrical system studies using SKM and maintenance testing databases such as PowerDB.
• Familiarity with SAP asset management and maintenance systems.
• Working knowledge of electrical one-line diagrams, control schematics, protection schemes, and applicable industry standards (NETA, NEC, NFPA, IEEE, API).
• Experience supporting turnarounds (TARs), maintenance-led projects, and capital project execution.

Strong leadership, communication, problem-solving, and decision-making skills. Proven ability to mentor and develop personnel while effectively managing multiple priorities. How to Apply Interested internal candidates should submit their resume and/or profile + last 2 performance appraisals to the Hiring Manager (Supervisor) and HR Contact via e-mail. Department Manager approval is required prior to applying for position.

Our culture is one of honesty and integrity with an emphasis on safety, health and environmental performance. On our team, people are acknowledged for embracing new practices that help create real value for customers.