Senior Electrical Facilities Engineer I

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Job Description

Everyone at Kite is grounded by one common goal – curing cancer. Every single day, we seek to establish a direct line between that purpose and our day-to-day work. Our manufacturing facility located in Frederick, Maryland is currently seeking a highly motivated individual to join the team as a Senior Electrical Facilities Engineer I with a focus on industrial electrical systems.

Job Responsibilities

• Demonstrate an senior level of understanding of medium and low voltage electrical systems and hardware;

• Serve as the subject matter expert for elements of the building electrical systems and equipment and, lighting, security, and fire protection systems as determined by the lead electrical engineer;

• Work under the guidance of the manager and lead electrical engineer;

• Support the troubleshooting and resolving of complex problems through ingenuity and an innovative mindset;

• Support the design, planning, and execution of facilities/equipment/utility system projects including conceptual design, detailed design, construction, and commissioning;

• Define project scopes, prepare requests for proposals, prepare cost estimates and business cases for justification of capital projects;

• Serve as a project manager for small projects in accordance with capital project governance;

• Self motivated and work with minimal supervision. Consistently demonstrate excellent time management and presentation skills and an expert level of knowledge of job specific applications;

• Proactively assemble proposed solutions to complex problems and present to manager in an efficient and effective manner (slide decks, visual metrics, etc.);

• Support F&E management through development and presentation of metrics, project updates, etc.;

• Provide accurate budget estimates for Opex and Capex expenses to respective budget holder(s);

• Organize and effectively lead meetings, assemble meeting agendas, and distribute meeting minutes and action items;

• Represent site engineering across the Kite network;

• Facilitate the management of contractors performing equipment, utility system, and facility work during project implementation;

• Partner with the Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) department to provide a safe work environment during project implementation. Draft and/or review job hazard assessments. Develop LOTO plans for equipment and system outages;

• Partner with EHS to ensure compliance with the EPA and other applicable regulatory bodies;

• Partner with EHS to achieve Kite energy and sustainability initiatives;

• Ensure electrical systems operate in a safe manner and comply with all applicable laws and codes;

• Review and approve project drawings, specifications, submittals, and turnover packages;

• Address requests for information (RFIs) during project design and implementation;

• Write and/or provide technical review of documentation including standard operating procedures and facility and engineering drawings;

• Demonstrate an excellent of knowledge of GxP operations and Regulatory compliance and lead discussions with Quality pertaining to facility/equipment/utility system compliance;

• Serve as the SME and address audit requests including interfacing with auditors during regulatory inspections;

• Assemble documentation required for equipment and system inductions into the Enterprise Asset Management System (EAMS);

• Develop preventive maintenance and calibration plans and assemble the documentation required to input these plans into the EAMS;

• Source proposals for vendor provided maintenance services;

• Identify spare parts requirements for electrical equipment and systems and source proposals to facilita