Job Summary

The Senior Electrical Reliability Engineer is responsible for enhancing the long-term performance and reliability of power distribution systems, motors, control and instrumentation power systems, electrical safety and protection systems, lighting, and auxiliary power systems.

This role focuses on preventing equipment failures by leveraging condition monitoring, implementing robust asset strategies, and driving defect elimination efforts.

Hence, key responsibilities include enhancing the early detection of equipment degradation through improved condition monitoring programs, preventing failures through optimized asset strategies, and eliminating chronic/high-cost equipment failures by determining and addressing their root causes. 

Success in this role requires building cross-functional alignment to ensure shared understanding, commitment, and support for reliability-focused initiatives.

Additionally, the Senior Electrical Reliability Engineer serves as a champion for reliability best practices and actively mentors others to build a proactive, reliability-centered culture across the organization.

This position is currently based in Freeport, TX, with plans to relocate to our headquarters in Downtown Houston in Q2 2026. It will also require frequent travel to company facilities in Freeport and other off-site locations as needed. This position requires the incumbent to hold a valid, unexpired driver license at all times in order to perform the essential functions of the job. 

Duties/Responsibilities

• Complies with and enforces safety rules and expectations
• Ensures compliance with all local, state, and federal regulations and company requirements
• Leads or facilitates root cause analyses and cross-functional problem-solving initiatives
• Ensures proposed solutions address causes of equipment reliability issues
• Applies reliability tools (e.g., FMEA, Weibull Analysis, Reliability Growth, Risk Assessment, Pareto Analysis) to drive improvements
• Utilizes the Pareto Principle to identify and drive focus on high-impact issues
• Champions and trains others on reliability concepts, tools, and work processes
• Develops and optimizes asset strategies based on asset criticality
• Drives implementation of the site reliability strategy
• Maintains alignment with Facilities Engineering to ensure strategies address real-time issues
• Demonstrates and champions mindsets and behaviors that unpin a strong reliability culture

Essential Functions

• Develops, implements, and continuously improves condition monitoring programs and standards
• Leads implementation of new reliability and condition monitoring technologies
• Develops and utilizes KPIs to report on the health and effectiveness of reliability and condition monitoring programs
• Utilizes systems (e.g., Meridium, GE, Cordant APM) to manage asset strategies and health
• Increases effectiveness and value of virtual 3rd-party machine health and monitoring services
• Synthesizes data from multiple sources to uncover failure patterns, trends, and high-impact risks
• Identifies and addresses spare parts gaps for critical equipment
• Initiates, defines, justifies, and supports the execution of strategic initiatives and capital projects to improve equipment reliability
• Proactively gathers and synthesizes data from multiple sources to uncover failure patterns, trends, and high-impact risks

Minimum Qualification/Work Experience

Required Experience:

• Bachelor’s in Electrical or related Engineering

• 10+ years in-plant experience in reliability, maintenance, or electrical engineering within petrochemicals, refining, or LNG

• Expertise with electrical equipment (power distribution, motors, control/instrumentation systems)

• Skilled in reliability tools (RCA, FMEA, Weibull analysis)

• Proficient with CMMS (e.g., SAP) and reliability software (Meridium, GE, Cordant APM)

• Experience in implementing and optimizing asset strategies

Preferred Experience:

• Master’s degree in Electrical or Reliability Engineering

• 15+ years experience (8+ in-plant) with growing reliability responsibilities

• Leadership of cross-functional reliability projects or teams

• Experience with condition monitoring programs (infrared thermography, partial discharge, motor current signature analysis)

• Certifications: CMRP (SMRP) and/or CRE (ASQ)

Required Knowledge/Skills/Abilities

HSE Roles and Responsibilities

Support the policies, efforts, and programs of Freeport LNG Health, Safety and Environmental (HSE) Management System.  Actively participate in the HSE Management System Policies.  Ensure that HSE concerns are given priority in all activities completed within their area of responsibility.  Implement routine inspections to ensure safe operating conditions.

Working Conditions and Physical Expectations

• Must be able to wear all necessary PPE equipment to perform job functions.
• Possible exposure to hot, cold, wet, humid or windy weather conditions.
• Possible exposure to moving mechanical parts and electrical circuits.
• Possible exposure to constant, or intermittent sounds of a pitch level sufficient to cause marked distraction.

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

• Able to drive to other Company work locations as required.
• Able to move throughout all areas of the facility.
• Able to stand and/or sit continuously and perform job functions for a full shift.
• Able to use hands to finger, handle or feel; and reach with hands and arms.
• Able to walk, stand, bend, stoop, kneel, reach, twist, lift, push, pull, climb, balance, crouch, handle and move items weighing up to 20 lbs. without assistance.
• Has visual acuity corrected to perform job functions.  Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.
• While performing the duties of this role, the incumbent will be required to talk and hear.
• May be required to enter confined spaces.
• May be required to work at elevated heights.

Work Authorization/Security Clearance (if applicable)

• Transportation Worker Identification Card