Koch Industries

Electrical & Instrumentation Reliability Engineer

Koch Industries$95K — $115K *
Manufacturing & Automotive
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Electrical Engineering Technology, Instrumentation Engineering, or a related field.
  • Experience with power distribution systems and motor control centers.
  • Experience supporting industrial electrical systems and reliability programs.
  • Ability to identify and resolve equipment performance issues sustainably.

Responsibilities

  • Lead proactive reliability improvements for electrical and control-system assets.
  • Develop reliability strategies for key infrastructure like power-distribution systems and control valves.
  • Perform root cause failure analysis and develop corrective actions for recurring failures.
  • Evaluate performance data and apply predictive technologies to enhance reliability.
  • Support electrical safety initiatives and compliance with relevant standards.
  • Provide engineering support for modernization and instrumentation projects.
  • Champion automation and digital solutions for improved performance.

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision coverage
  • Flexible spending and health savings accounts
  • Life insurance and disability coverage
  • Retirement savings plan
  • Paid vacation and time off
  • Educational assistance
  • Paid parental leave and adoption assistance
Full Job Description
Your Job

INVISTA's Seaford site is seeking an Electrical & Instrumentation Reliability Engineer to play a key role in advancing the reliability, safety, and performance of critical manufacturing assets. In this position, you'll leverage your expertise in electrical systems, instrumentation, controls, and reliability engineering to solve complex challenges, eliminate recurring failures, and help drive the site's journey toward more predictive and proactive operations. This is an opportunity to make a direct impact through technical leadership, modernization initiatives, and value-driven decision making while helping strengthen the long-term competitiveness of the site

What You Will Do

  • Lead proactive reliability improvements for electrical, instrumentation, and control-system assets, focusing on recurring-failure elimination, lifecycle strategies, and long-term equipment performance
  • Develop and improve reliability strategies for power-distribution systems, motors, drives, motor control centers, transformers, switchgear, analyzers, transmitters, control valves, and field instrumentation.
  • Perform root cause failure analysis and develop sustainable corrective actions to eliminate recurring failures and bad actors.
  • Evaluate equipment performance data and apply predictive and condition-monitoring technologies to improve reliability and reduce lifecycle cost.
  • Support site electrical-safety initiatives, including arc-flash mitigation, grounding, protective systems, and compliance with applicable standards.
  • Provide engineering support for instrumentation upgrades, replacements, and modernization projects.
  • Prepare specifications, scopes of work, engineering packages, and economic justifications for reliability and capital projects.
  • Support Management of Change, process hazard analysis action closure, and risk-reduction activities.
  • Identify and champion automation, monitoring, and digital solutions that improve safety, reliability, and economic performance.
  • Partner with Maintenance and Operations to strengthen troubleshooting capability and technical knowledge.
  • Support predictive-maintenance programs, including thermography, motor monitoring, instrumentation-health monitoring, and power-system inspections.
  • Assist with commissioning, startup, and performance testing of new or modified systems.
  • Use economic decision-making and PBM principles to prioritize reliability investments and resources toward the highest-value opportunities.


Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

  • Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Electrical Engineering Technology, Instrumentation Engineering, or a related field.
  • Experience with power distribution systems, motor control centers, switchgear, transformers, motors, AC and DC drives, and protective relaying.
  • Experience supporting industrial electrical systems, instrumentation, controls, or reliability programs.
  • Experience identifying equipment performance issues, determining underlying causes, and implementing sustainable solutions that improve reliability.


What Will Put You Ahead

  • Three (3) more years of experience supporting electrical, instrumentation, controls, or electrical-reliability programs in an industrial or manufacturing environment.
  • Experience with process instrumentation, control valves, interlocks, and burner management systems.
  • Experience with PLC, DCS, and industrial control systems.
  • Knowledge of reliability methods including root cause failure analysis, FMEA, predictive maintenance, and condition monitoring.
  • Experience with PI System, Seeq, SAP, or other industrial data and maintenance systems.
  • Knowledge of NEC, NFPA, ISA, OSHA, and other applicable engineering standards.
  • Experience supporting reliability or capital projects through cost-benefit analysis, risk assessment, or economic justification.
  • Experience building technical capability and advancing knowledge within an organization.


This role is not eligible for Visa Sponsorship

At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy.

Hiring Philosophy

All Koch companies value diversity of thought, perspectives, aptitudes, experiences, and backgrounds. We are Military Ready and Second Chance employers. Learn more about our hiring philosophy here .

Our Benefits

Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.

Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.

About Koch Industries

Koch Industries, Inc. is an American privately-held multinational conglomerate corporation based in Wichita, Kansas. Its subsidiaries are involved in the manufacturing, refining, and distribution of petroleum, chemicals, energy, fiber, intermediates and polymers, minerals, fertilizers, pulp and paper, chemical technology equipment, ranching, finance, commodities trading, and investing. Koch owns Infor, Invista, Georgia-Pacific, Molex, Flint Hills Resources, Koch Pipeline, Koch Fertilizer, Koch Minerals, Matador Cattle Company, i360, and Guardian Industries. The firm employs 120,000 people in 60 countries, with about half of its business in the United States. The company is the largest non-Canadian landowner in the Athabasca oil sands. With annual revenues of $110 billion by 2014, the company is the largest privately held company in the United States. In 2007, it was ranked as the largest privately held company. If Koch Industries had been a public company in 2013, it would have ranked 17th in the Fortune 500. The company was founded by its namesake, Fred C. Koch, in 1940 after he developed an innovative crude oil refining process. Fred C. Koch died in 1967 and his majority interest in the company was split amongst his four sons. In June 1983, after a bitter legal and boardroom battle, the stakes of Frederick R. Koch and William "Bill" Koch were bought out for $1.1 billion and Charles Koch and David Koch became majority owners in the company. Charles owns 42% of the company; trusts for the benefit of Elaine Tettemer Marshall and Elaine's children, Preston Marshall and E. Pierce Marshall Jr., own 16% of the company. The heirs of David Koch, who died on August 23, 2019, own the balance, 42%, of the corporation.
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