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In this position, you'll leverage your expertise in electrical systems, instrumentation, controls, and reliability engineering to solve complex challenges, eliminate recurring failures, and help drive the site's journey toward more predictive and proactive operations. This is an opportunity to make a direct impact through technical leadership, modernization initiatives, and value-driven decision making while helping strengthen the long-term competitiveness of the site\n\nOur Team\nThis role is part of a collaborative reliability and engineering team focused on improving asset performance, operational excellence, and long-term site capability. In this role, you'll work closely with site Operations, Maintenance, Reliability, Project, and Technical teams to identify opportunities, solve complex problems, and implement sustainable improvements. You'll serve as a trusted technical resource across the site, partnering with a wide range of stakeholders to support reliability strategies, modernization efforts, while helping build technical capability. This role contributes to INVISTA’s Electrical and Instrumentation Capability Teams, defining and deploying enterprise wide reliability strategies that strengthen technical capability, standardize asset care practices, and improve long term operational performance and risk reduction across the organization.\n\nWhat You Will Do\nLead proactive reliability improvements for electrical, instrumentation, and control-system assets, focusing on recurring-failure elimination, lifecycle strategies, and long-term equipment performance\nDevelop and improve reliability strategies for power-distribution systems, motors, drives, motor control centers, transformers, switchgear, analyzers, transmitters, control valves, and field instrumentation.\nPerform root cause failure analysis and develop sustainable corrective actions to eliminate recurring failures and bad actors.\nEvaluate equipment performance data and apply predictive and condition-monitoring technologies to improve reliability and reduce lifecycle cost.\nSupport site electrical-safety initiatives, including arc-flash mitigation, grounding, protective systems, and compliance with applicable standards.\nProvide engineering support for instrumentation upgrades, replacements, and modernization projects.\nPrepare specifications, scopes of work, engineering packages, and economic justifications for reliability and capital projects.\nSupport Management of Change, process hazard analysis action closure, and risk-reduction activities.\nIdentify and champion automation, monitoring, and digital solutions that improve safety, reliability, and economic performance.\nPartner with Maintenance and Operations to strengthen troubleshooting capability and technical knowledge.\nSupport predictive-maintenance programs, including thermography, motor monitoring, instrumentation-health monitoring, and power-system inspections.\nAssist with commissioning, startup, and performance testing of new or modified systems.\nUse economic decision-making and PBM principles to prioritize reliability investments and resources toward the highest-value opportunities.\n\nWho You Are (Basic Qualifications)\nBachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Electrical Engineering Technology, Instrumentation Engineering, or a related field.\nExperience with power distribution systems, motor control centers, switchgear, transformers, motors, AC and DC drives, and protective relaying.\nExperience supporting industrial electrical systems, instrumentation, controls, or reliability programs.\nExperience identifying equipment performance issues, determining underlying causes, and implementing sustainable solutions that improve reliability.\n\nWhat Will Put You Ahead\nThree (3) more years of experience supporting electrical, instrumentation, controls, or electrical-reliability programs in an industrial or manufacturing environment.\nExperience with process instrumentation, control valves, interlocks, and burner management systems.\nExperience with PLC, DCS, and industrial control systems.\nKnowledge of reliability methods including root cause failure analysis, FMEA, predictive maintenance, and condition monitoring.\nExperience with PI System, Seeq, SAP, or other industrial data and maintenance systems.\nKnowledge of NEC, NFPA, ISA, OSHA, and other applicable engineering standards.\nExperience supporting reliability or capital projects through cost-benefit analysis, risk assessment, or economic justification.\nExperience building technical capability and advancing knowledge within an organization.\nThis role is not eligible for Visa Sponsorship\nAt Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy.\n\nHiring Philosophy\nAll Koch companies value diversity of thought, perspectives, aptitudes, experiences, and backgrounds. We are Military Ready and Second Chance employers. Learn more about our hiring philosophy here.\n\nWho We Are\nAs a Koch company, INVISTA has a long history of working to make the world around you a better place. From parts for the automotive industry to medical equipment, air bags, food packaging and clothing, our ingredients in the nylon 6,6 and polypropylene value chains help bring many of life’s essential products to market.\nAt Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company.\n\nOur Benefits\nOur goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.\nAdditionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.\n\nEqual Opportunities\nEqual Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, some offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify. Please click here for additional information. 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