Chief Electrical Engineer

The Chief Electrical Engineer is responsible for the complete electrical infrastructure supporting a mission-critical facility. This includes oversight of high-voltage utility interface, medium-voltage distribution, and low-voltage and UPS systems. The role establishes engineering standards, ensures electrical safety and reliability, leads incident investigations, and directs maintenance, testing, and operational procedures. The position serves as the senior electrical authority for the site and provides technical guidance to engineering, operations, and maintenance teams.

Key Responsibilities

Electrical System Ownership
• Maintain technical oversight of all HV, MV, and LV electrical systems.
• Review and update one-line diagrams, protection settings, breaker coordination studies, and arc-flash analyses.
• Approve electrical switching procedures and ensure proper documentation of all electrical work.

Reliability and Engineering Strategy
• Develop the electrical reliability strategy, including maintenance planning, equipment lifecycle management, and system redundancy considerations.
• Lead root-cause analysis for electrical events and oversee corrective and preventive actions.
• Monitor electrical system performance and identify opportunities for improvement.

Operational Support and Procedures
• Create and approve MOPs, SOPs, and EOPs for normal operations, maintenance, and emergency scenarios.
• Provide escalation support during incidents, alarms, and outages.
• Work with monitoring, controls, and operations teams to refine alarming thresholds and trending for electrical assets.

Maintenance and Vendor Oversight
• Manage preventive and predictive maintenance programs for all electrical equipment.
• Oversee NETA testing, relay testing, breaker maintenance, IR scanning, and other specialized services.
• Evaluate vendor scopes of work and ensure service quality and adherence to SLAs.

Projects, Upgrades, and Commissioning
• Support electrical design review for capital projects, upgrades, and reliability enhancements.
• Participate in commissioning and integrated systems testing to validate electrical performance and operational readiness.
• Ensure project documentation and as-builts are complete and accurate.

Compliance and Documentation
• Ensure compliance with NEC, NFPA 70E/70B, IEEE, OSHA, and state electrical codes.
• Maintain accurate records of electrical testing, maintenance activities, design changes, and event investigations.
• Lead implementation of electrical safety programs, LOTO procedures, and personnel training.

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Required Qualifications
• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or a related discipline.
• Ten or more years of experience with HV, MV, and LV systems in mission-critical, industrial, utility, oil and gas, or similar environments.
• Strong understanding of electrical codes and standards including NEC, NFPA, IEEE, NETA, and OSHA.
• Experience developing and approving electrical operating procedures.
• Demonstrated experience with incident investigation and corrective action planning.

Preferred Qualifications
• Professional Engineer (PE) license.
• Background in mission-critical facilities such as data centers, refineries, power plants, semiconductor manufacturing, or hospitals.
• Experience working with BMS, SCADA, EPMS, or other monitoring platforms.
• Experience with commissioning, reliability upgrades, or major electrical retrofits.

Benefit packages for this role will start on the 1st day of employment and include medical, dental, and vision insurance, as well as HSA, FSA, and DCFSA account options, and 401k retirement account access with employer matching. Employees in this role are also entitled to paid sick leave and/or other paid time off as provided by applicable law.