Electrical Engineer I

Where you will work

Lewiston is Clearwater Paper's original manufacturing facility and home to nearly 700 dedicated team members who power our site. Together, we make paperboard used in products across the United States, including food packaging, plates, cups and more. Home to the first mill that produced poster board from wood waste, the site currently operates two paper machines, two extruders, two power boilers and two recovery boilers.

Located where the Snake and Clearwater rivers meet on the Idaho-Washington border, Lewiston offers an active outdoor lifecycle with easy access to fishing, boating, hiking and camping. The region's milder climate means more rain than snow in the winter and long, sunny days in the summer.

Living here means you'll be close to Lewis-Clark State College, University of Idaho, Washington State University, and Walla Walla Community College, as well as strong local K-12 school districts.

What you will do

The Electrical Engineer will provide service to develop and implement capital projects. The position will assist maintenance and operations with technical analyses and designs to improve existing processes and equipment. Use engineering standards and specifications in the design and construction of projects.

Project Management

• Work as a liaison between Maintenance, Operations, and Engineering teams
• Develops cost estimates, plans, and schedules for new projects
• Aids with the preparation, submittal, and authorization for capital expenditures and major repairs
• Prepares request for quotations, evaluates proposals, and issues contracts for equipment purchases, material purchases, design services, and construction
• Circulates updated drawings and documentation to members of the project team
• Reviews and approves any change orders
• Coordinates project installations to have minimum impact on on-going operations
• Inspects work to ensure compliance with contract documents
• Performs safety inspections to promote job safety and eliminate safety incidents on projects
• Ensures project installation follows safe work practices by both contractors and Clearwater Paper employees
• Provides regular status reports on projects
• Assists with the management of project scope and budget to the approved project plan
• Maintains project documentation to include drawing revisions, equipment files, and updated mill records
• Initiates the pre-start-up safety review to ensure equipment is ready for start-up
• Works with maintenance and operations departments to ensure successful project implementation
• Drives a post start-up punch list to meet the goals of the project
• Verifies existing equipment layouts and dimensions
• Provides engineering analysis during selection and optimization of equipment
• Facilitates detailed design drawings for equipment installations
• Coordinates design activities with consulting engineers and equipment manufacturers
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  Reviews and approves equipment and engineering drawings

Reliability Engineering

• Work as a strategic partner in the electrical and instrumentation department primarily in failure prevention and long-term support
• Work with condition monitoring program to reduces RED's list (Vibration, IR, etc.)
• Work with system analysis tools and vendors to better the system power quality
• Support site power system study and model updates (Relay Protection, Easy Power Model, etc.
• Perform BDA/RCA/RCFA/5-Whys/defect elimination on contributors of yield, utilization, and capacity losses due to failures attributed to equipment, processes, etc
• Work with other disciplines within the reliability team to update and improve current criticality model
• Define critical spares and BOM's as needed
• Verify critical spare list is updated annually. Work with engineering to verify BOM's are in place after commissioning
• Work with group on outage oversight and management of MCC's, emergency generators, switchgear, UPS systems, transformers, and battery backup systems

Maintenance and Operational Assistance

• Provides technical assistance to trouble-shoot equipment and/or operating problems
• Reviews options and recommends solutions to resolve operating and/or maintenance issues
• Coordinates contractor's activities for contracted-out maintenance work during equipment downtimes

Key Competencies & Attributes

• Identifying and understanding problems and opportunities by gathering, analysing, and interpreting quantitative and qualitative information; choosing the best course of action by establishing clear decision criteria, generating and evaluating alternatives, and making timely decisions
• Taking action that is consistent with available facts and constraints and optimizes probable consequences
• Maintaining effectiveness when experiencing major changes in work responsibilities or environment (e.g., people, processes, structure, or culture); adjusting effectively to change by exploring the benefits, trying new approaches, and collaborating with others to make the change successful
• Originating action to improve existing conditions and processes; identifying improvement opportunities, generating ideas, and implementing solutions

What you will need

• Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering required
• Manufacturing internship preferred
• Project Management experience preferred
• Proficient in Microsoft Office Word and Excel
• Proficient in AutoCAD, and or Solid Works
• Easy power experience preferred
• Microsoft Project Experience Preferred
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  Ability to quickly learn new programs such as JD Edwards, MS Project, etc.
• Industrial Environment - subject to extreme heat and cold
• Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) must be worn in the mill environment
• Noisy, dusty, and working around moving equipment
• Office and Mill environment
• Personal Protective Equipment required in mill environment
• Dirt, noise, odor, and temperature extremes
• Climbing stairs, ladders, and scaffolding
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  Primarily weekday work, with night and weekend on call rotation, and night and or weekend work as required to complete assignments

Total Rewards Details

We prioritize an exceptional workplace experience, offering a comprehensive total reward package. Compensation ranges are estimates based on market data. Actual offers account for internal equity and the candidate's job-related knowledge, skills, education, and experience. Benefits, including medical, dental, vision, and more, generally begin after 30 days. Our paid time off includes vacation days, personal days, and company holidays. For more on our compensation philosophy, please contact our Talent Acquisition Team at Talent.Acquisition@clearwaterpaper.com.

Clearwater Paper will not offer sponsorship for employment-based visa status (including, but not limited to, H-1B visa status and other employment-based nonimmigrant visas) for this position. Accordingly, all applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis and must not require Clearwater Paper's sponsorship to continue to work legally in the United States.

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This role will be open for a minimum of 2 weeks or at the point a successful candidate is selected.