Engineer

• Zero Harm
  • Follow our Safety Guiding Principles
    • All injuries are preventable
    • All employees are responsible for preventing injuries
    • Plan safety into your work
    • Look out for one another
• Provider of Choice
  • Commit to being a good steward of the environment and satisfy our environmental compliance obligations
  • Be mindful of fiscal responsibilities
  • Provide quality work for a reliable and efficient product
• Culture of Engagement
  • Be positive and open to new ideas
  • Be an active listener
  • Be accountable for your position
• Operational Excellence
  • Be an active participant in training sessions and meetings
  • Be proficient at your job and know its role in how it impacts the company’s performance
  • Actively pursue and/or provide training and developmental opportunities for yourself and others
• Continuous Improvement 
  • Continuously seek and embrace change
  • Create solutions to problems
  • Be engaged and take an active role in continuous improvement activities

• Vision
  • Promote a safe, reliable and cost-effective culture
  • Be a collaborative team player
  • Understand what excellence looks like and strive to reach it
• Leadership
  • Understand that everyone has a leadership role
  • Cast a positive shadow
  • Be professional and respectful of others in your behaviors and communications with others
• Employee Engagement
  • Be coachable – accept coaching and feedback to improve not only your performance, but that of the entire team. Utilize the OVEC coaching model.
  • Be self-motivated, adaptable, actively engaged and proactive
  • Cooperate with others
• Accountability
  • Be accountable – take pride, ownership and responsibility in the work that you do
  • Be timely and punctual
  • Be productive
• Continuous Improvement
  • Develop and maintain a cross-functional, helping behavior
  • Bring solutions to problems
  • Relentlessly pursue improvement to our production processes

Key Responsibilities

• Provide recommendations for the repair and/or replacement of critical components to reduce plant EFOR, improve availability and maintain environmental compliance.
• Plan and conduct routine tests on equipment.
• Take data from tests and compile, calculate, plot, interpret and report with conclusions and recommendations.
• Facilitate the conception of improved systems and equipment.
• When assigned asset ownership, carry out duties and responsibilities outlined in the OVEC-IKEC Asset Health Handbook. 
• Perform special tests or investigations.
• Analyze operating charts and other operating data to determine equipment performance or operating procedure; interpret results to suggest improvements to be made.
• Conduct surveys to root cause of equipment failures and process inefficiencies.
• Observe and supervise the calibration of instruments, meters, scales and recorders; analyze and make suggestions for improving or establishing these calibrating procedures.
• Investigate causes of complaint and assist when necessary.
• Keep informed of the latest practices and procedures in engineering and consistently apply these to ensure efficiency and economy.
• Perform duties in accordance with all applicable federal and state safety laws and regulations, and all applicable company safety rules and operating procedures; when supervising others, assure that safe work practices are followed and conduct safety meetings; make suggestions for the improvement of the safety program and encourage others to do so.
• Carry out within the assigned area of responsibility the Company’s program of Equal Employment Opportunity including its Affirmative Action obligations.
• Responsible for knowing and complying with the laws and Code of Business Conduct related to the performance of the aforementioned duties.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science in Engineering.
• Three to five (3 - 5) years of experience in the electric utility industry or similar environment preferred.

Benefits

• Medical, Dental and Vision insurance
• Health Savings Account (with Employer contribution if enrolled in a qualifying medical plan)
• Life Insurance
• Supplemental Pension & Savings Plan
• Paid Days Off
• Holidays
• Vacation
• Sick Pay
• Monetary incentives/Employee Incentive Plan
• Paid Parental Leave
• Additional Voluntary Benefits