Are you a self-motivated problem solver? LES is looking for a Maintenance engineer to join our Substation Engineering team. If you are interested in a challenging and rewarding engineering career, LES may be the right fit!
CORE COMPETENCIES & ESSENTIAL DUTIES
Provides engineering support in areas of assignment. Provides technical support to peers as they operate, troubleshoot, and maintain distribution, substation, and related facilities at generation sites. Specific responsibilities include developing preventative maintenance schedules and procedures, conducting analysis, design and completion of engineering assignments associated with electrical engineering, supervising consulting services, and creating/updating specifications associated with substation equipment. Leads small to medium projects with minimal guidance. Consistent and reliable attendance is required. Please note, LES is interested in every qualified candidate who is eligible to work in the United States. However, LES is not able to sponsor employment-based immigrant or non-immigrant visas.
- Performs and coordinates the planning, maintenance, analysis, construction, integration, installation, operation, and optimization of critical operational systems and applications associated with substation, transmission, and distribution.
- Reviews and analyzes equipment test results, problems and failures and makes specifications for alterations to improve equipment reliability and reduce failure rates.
- Assembles and retains records needed for maintenance of substation equipment in order to remain in compliance with applicable regulatory requirements.
- Assists in creating specifications and evaluating bids for substation maintenance and distribution transformer equipment to ensure maintenance reliability, standardization, and quality.
- Implements and maintains LES engineering standards, standard materials, specifications, policies, procedures and guidelines for LES systems and applications.
- Prepares and presents reports with justification and documentation in recommending courses of action for capital improvement projects, asset management strategies, standards, maintenance procedures, work methods, materials, and guidelines.
Accountability – Seeking a candidate who holds self and others responsible for goals, outcomes, deadlines, and objectives and follows through on commitments. Takes accountability for delivering on commitments; owns mistakes and uses them as opportunities for learning and development.
Project Management – The ideal candidate in this role establishes project goals, milestones, and procedures, defines roles and responsibilities, acquires project resources, coordinates projects throughout company, monitors project progress, and manages multiple projects.
Adaptability – The individual in this position maintains a positive attitude in the face of change; appropriately adjusts behavior and activities to changing conditions.
Job Technical Skills – The successful candidate keeps his/her technical skills current; effectively applies specialized knowledge and skills to perform work tasks; understands and masters the technical skills, knowledge, and tasks associated with his/her job; shares technical expertise with others.
Quality Orientation – Seeking a candidate who holds self and others to being attentive to detail and accuracy, maintains high quality work, looks for improvements continuously, monitors quality levels, finds root cause of quality problems, owns/acts on quality problems while encouraging a quality focus in others.
EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or related field, or
- An equivalent combination of education and experience sufficient to successfully perform the essential duties of the job.
CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS
Valid driver’s license
