Electrical Maintenance Engineer

About the role

Orbia's Polymer Solutions (Vestolit) business develops PVC solutions for more than 80 countries. It is looking for an Electrical Maintenance Engineer in Coatzacoalcos whose main purpose is to manage the reliability and maintainability of electrical systems and equipment through predictive and preventive maintenance, minimizing unplanned downtime caused by equipment failure.

Key responsibilities

• Develop, implement and continuously improve predictive, preventive and condition-based maintenance strategies for electrical and rotating equipment.
• Lead condition monitoring programs using vibration analysis, thermography, lubrication analysis and other predictive techniques.
• Perform reliability and risk assessments on critical equipment and lead root cause failure analysis, FMEA, Ishikawa and other reliability studies.
• Develop and govern preventive maintenance programs and establish, monitor and report KPIs such as MTBF, MTTR, MTTF, availability and downtime.
• Drive reliability technologies and coordinate reliability improvement initiatives with Maintenance, Operations and Engineering.
• Provide technical leadership during Management of Change, PSSR and PHA for electrical and rotating equipment.
• Ensure compliance with site management system requirements (ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO 45001, PSM, SARI, NSF, KOSHER) and the Orbia Asset Integrity Management Standard, and calibration requirements.

Required profile

• Educated in Electrical Engineering, Reliability Engineering or a related engineering field; Level II in infrared thermography desirable.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in reliability, asset integrity, maintenance or industrial operations in chemical, petrochemical, manufacturing or process industries.
• Working knowledge of reliability engineering, failure analysis (RCA, FMEA) and asset integrity management.
• Knowledge of electrical and rotating equipment, predictive maintenance and condition monitoring.
• English at B2 level or higher; ability to move independently in industrial facilities and use PPE.

Required skills

• SAP PM, Microsoft Office Suite, Power BI and advanced Excel.
• Lubrication management, vibration analysis, thermography, ultrasound inspection and performance monitoring equipment.
• Familiarity with API, ASME, NFPA, ISO 55000, ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO 45001 and PSM.