Lead Electrical Engineer

Overview

Buzzi Unicem USA is one of the leading cement manufacturing companies in the United States.  With over 1,500 valued employees, Buzzi Unicem USA manufactures and distributes its cement products throughout the Midwest, Southwest, Northeast and Southeast regions of the country.  Globally, Buzzi Unicem SpA operates in 14 countries and employs almost 10,000 people. We are passionate about sustainably producing our cement products for the benefit of society by providing the foundation for crucial infrastructure projects such as roads, bridges, tunnels, airports, dams, and residential and industrial buildings. 

Our commitment to positively contributing to society is a core principle for our business, and the reason we focus heavily on sustainable development. As part of our corporate culture, we recognize our role in meeting the current generation’s needs, while preserving environmental quality and protecting the needs of future generations.

 

Additionally, quality serves as the foundation of the way we do business at Buzzi Unicem USA.  We have established at all our production sites, quality targets for our products that meet not only local regulatory standards but also our customer requirements.

 

Buzzi Unicem USA strives to provide a corporate culture supporting career growth through strong leadership and development planning.   We offer a competitive salary, along with comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits. Plus, our benefits include flexible spending accounts, supplemental life insurance and other voluntary benefits – such as accident and critical illness. We also provide a 401(k) savings plan, Employee Assistance Program, a tuition reimbursement program, professional development and advancement opportunities.

 

Join our team, be part of the solution, support evolving innovations, and help us continue providing quality products, all while being supported by strong leadership and a comprehensive and competitive benefits program.

Responsibilities

The purpose of the Corporate Electrical Project Engineering position, with a primary emphasis on Electrical power distribution, is to develop and support departmental project managers by taking responsibility to directly or indirectly generate and/or outsource electrical engineering and its associated project related activities as required to define and implement large and mid-sized CAPEX types of projects.

 

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

• Directly define, implement and support all capex and plant level projects assigned.
• Support corporate Project Managers in the successful definition, implementation and completion of electrical portions of capex and/or plant level projects assigned.
• Take responsibility for and create conceptual electrical scopes of work and design documentation necessary for MV-LV power distribution systems, protection schemes and motor applications along with the installation of such.  A secondary level of support may include that for  LV Control, and Instrumentation systems, excluding automation.
• Generate budgets for electrical projects assigned including present and future.
• Create project specific electrical scopes of work, divisions of responsibilities and specifications, which define overall electrical guidelines and requirements for engineering, equipment supply, installation, and testing.
• Assist in the packaging and revisions to form-contracts as may be required for outside electrical engineering, equipment procurement, electrical construction, and testing services.
• Oversee, direct and validate all in-house and out-sourced engineering design services.
• Specify, procure and purchase electrical power distribution, control/instrumentation and PLC/IO hardware types of equipment such as:
• Power Services, Substations, Transformers, Switchgear, Protective devices, Motor Controllers, Motors, Field Control and Instrumentation devices, PLC IO and network cabinets, general Branch system distribution equipment, Lighting, Heat tracing, etc.
• Initiate and take responsibility for the development and packaging of final electrical design and installation related document packages. Key documents may include:
• Electrical Flow Diagrams, PIDs, Load and Equipment/Device lists, Power One-Line diagrams, Schematic Wiring Diagrams, Field Wiring Diagrams, PLC/IO Cabinet Assemblies, General Arrangements, Electrical Room arrangements, Raceway/Equipment Block Diagrams, Raceway and Cable Arrangements along with associated Cable Schedules, Grounding and Lighting Arrangements, Heat tracing, etc.
• Assist in project status reviews and oversight with a focus on quality, budget, schedule, and cost control forecasting.
• Generate monthly project reports for upper management review.
• Update monthly job accounting reports for projects ass