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Who We're Looking For
Toyota's Environmental and Facilities Department seeks a passionate and highly motivated Senior Electrical Engineer.
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This role's primary responsibility is supporting the Environmental & Facilities Operations function at the TMMK site (Georgetown, Kentucky). The Facility is a 10,000,000 square foot automotive assembly and powertrain machining/assembly plant. This position will be responsible for the plant power system including utility supply, power distribution in the plant, including switchgear, transformers, bus duct, generators, etc.
Reporting to the Manager of Operations-Facilities Engineering, the person in this role will support the Environmental & Facilities department's objective of ensuring plant infrastructure and utility systems readiness to achieve plant production safely, efficiently, and minimize disruptions to production.
What You'll Be Doing
Oversee correct operation of Toyota Kentucky's 100 MW power distribution system, including:
- Develop schedule, plan and implementation for planned power outages and preventive maintenance of electrical equipment and power restoration
- Maintenance plans for on-site emergency generators and power battery backup systems
- Maintain inventory and of the site electrical distribution equipment such as bus duct, transformers, switchgear, test equipment, etc.
- Create and maintain capital and operations budgets and cost tracking for assigned systems
- Update maintenance management systems for internal and contracted maintenance activity
- Support weekend and holiday maintenance planning
- Develop, monitor, and report shop Key Performance Indicators (KPI's), including energy supply consistency, maintenance costs, etc.
- Track and identify spikes in daily operations, problem-solve those issues, and develop countermeasures by assigning maintenance repairs or contract support
- Support skilled maintenance Team Member's in daily troubleshooting
- Support the training and development needs of skilled maintenance Team Members
- Develop and maintain site-wide arc flash standards
- Act as Subject Matter Expert (SME) for all electrical power systems
- Support the department's engineering systems, including major breakdown investigations, Energy Kaizens, and KPI tracking
- Provide customer satisfaction with proper communication and consensus with customer to support their needs
- Prepare and report out detailed project status reports
- Participate, conduct and lead engineering studies
- Track, analyze and report out non-production energy usage
What You Bring
- Bachelor's degree (or higher) in Electrical Engineering
- Plant utility systems experience in a manufacturing or industrial environment
- Experience with industrial power systems (switchgear, power distribution systems, 480VAC and higher)
- Experience developing and administering a maintenance plan for low (480v) and medium (15kv) voltage switchgear
- Experience in troubleshooting electrical equipment in facilities operations
- Experience managing project budgets, writing approval documents and holding gate check reviews
- Experience with controls such as PLC, networking systems, Building Management Systems and/or Variable Frequency Drives.
- Experience in Microsoft Excel, Word and PowerPoint. (Intermediate level skills)
Added Bonus If You Have
- Project Management Experience
- Certified Facilities Manager (CFM), Certified Energy Manager (CEM), Facilities Management Professional (FMP)
- Professional Engineer license
- Proficiency in reading electrical and mechanical prints
- Toyota experience
- Master Electrical License or Electrical Journeyman License
- Familiarity with Power Monitoring Expert (Schneider power system monitoring) software
- Understanding of electrical code requirements
- Working knowledge of AutoCAD
- Experience working with skilled trades personnel
- Experience with VT Scada Systems and Building Monitoring Systems
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Belonging at Toyota
Our success begins and ends with our people. We embrace diverse perspectives and value unique human experiences. Respect for all is our North Star. Toyota is proud to have 10+ different Business Partnering Groups across 100 different North American chapter locations that support team members' efforts to dream, do and grow without questioning that they belong.
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