Electrical Maintenance Engineer
Location: Middle East
Employment Type: Full-time / On-site (On-call)
Industry: Natural Gas
Experience Level: 10+ Years
Job Overview
We are seeking Electrical Maintenance Engineers to join our company.
The role requires strong electrical maintenance leadership, asset integrity expertise, and hands-on involvement across the full project lifecycle, including pre-commissioning, commissioning, and startup.
Successful candidates will act as technical authorities, ensuring safe, reliable, and compliant operation of electrical systems in hazardous, high-availability environments, while mentoring teams and supporting continuous improvement.
Key Responsibilities
As the successful candidate, you will be required to perform the following:
Operations & Maintenance
- Lead and optimize preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance activities for electrical assets.
- Act as technical authority for:
- MV/LV switchgear operation, isolation, and interlocking
- Power and distribution transformers
- Gas turbine generators and auxiliaries, including:
- Excitation systems & Frequency control system
- Emergency Lube Oil systems, electrical component (e.g., BCH, DC motors, L.O. heaters)
- PMS and Load Shedding System
- Large synchronous generators and induction motors
- Gas turbine–driven compressors, including:
- Emergency Lube Oil systems' electrical component.
- IMs’ VFD & Soft starters
- Fuel Gas Heating system with thyristor control panel.
- Emergency Diesel Generators with their corresponding control system.
- Medium & low voltage motor starters and VFDs
- UPS, battery chargers, DC systems, and batteries
- Explosion-proof and hazardous-area electrical equipment
- Electrical SCADA, PLC, and classical control systems
- Pipelines and tanks Cathodic Protection systems
- HVAC systems and their components (Central and Split)
- Earthing and lightning systems design and maintenance
- NGR system
- Perform and supervise:
- MV/LV switchgear isolation and switching activities
- Protection relay testing, programming, and troubleshooting
- Verification of relay coordination and selectivity
- Condition Monitoring & Reliability
- Planning and performing electrical asset integrity through condition monitoring and testing, failure trend analysis & lifecycle assessments, and identification and mitigation of integrity risks.
- Lead complex troubleshooting, equipment failure investigations, and Root Cause Analysis (RCA) with permanent corrective actions.
- Manage and perform MOC audits across maintenance departments with all related procedures as per company policy.
- New Projects Support
- Participate in project’s design reviews, constructability assessments, and specification development.
- Prepare, review, and validate:
- Electrical equipment specifications, data sheets, & Single-line diagrams
- Protection and metering schemes
- Motor schematics and protection philosophies
- Hazardous area classification drawings
- Substation automation architecture
- Synchronizing and bus changeover schemes
- Perform or review electrical engineering calculations, including:
- Grounding and earthing systems
- Battery and charger sizing
- Transformer sizing
- Cable sizing and voltage drop
- Electrical load schedules
- Review and support electrical power system studies, such as:
- Short-circuit analysis
- Load flow analysis
- Motor starting studies
- Arc flash hazard studies
- Protection coordination and relay settings
- Lead and support field installation, pre-commissioning, commissioning, testing, and startup activities with proven experience in Brownfields and Greenfields as well.
- Shutdowns, Turnarounds & Overhauls
- Act as the electrical focal point during shutdowns, plant upsets, and emergencies.
- Manage SIMOPS operation during shutdown preparations.
- Interface with operations, instrumentation, mechanical teams, OEMs, EPC contractors, and service providers.
- Planning, Budgeting & Cost Control
- Preparation and monitoring of annual maintenance budgets
- Planning and scheduling of asset maintenance programs and inspections
- Preparation of long-term maintenance and overhaul forecasts
- Preparation of Asset Criticality Assessment (ACA)
- Spare Parts & Inventory Management
- Preparation of purchase requisitions for spare parts, tools, and services
- Purchase orders follow-up from issuance till spare parts receiving.
- Spare parts identification and criticality assessment
- Monitoring spare parts usage and stock levels (min/max) to optimize the inventory for balancing of availability and cost
Tools & Workforce Management
- Tools management and supervision to ensure availability and compliance.
- Supervision of the engineer.
Risk Assessment & Safety
- Preparation and review of Risk Assessments (RA), prepare recommendations and guidelines to address the risk mitigation and controls.
- Ensure compliance with:
- HSE requirements
- Permit to Work (PTW) system
- Lock Out / Tag Out (LOTO) procedures
- Promote a strong safety culture within the team
Qualifications, Experience, Knowledge & Skills
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from an accredited university.
- Minimum 10 years of experience in Electrical Engineering in the natural gas industry
- Experience in the installation and start-up of new projects in the natural gas industry.
- Strong working knowledge of NFPA, ANSI, IEEE, IEC, API, NEC, and NACE standards.
- Proven experience with specifications and data sheets for:
- Power transformers.
- Large synchronous and induction motors.
- MV/LV switchgear and control gear.
- MV/LV cables and bus ducts.
- U PS, battery chargers, NGRs, and panel boards.
- HVAC systems.
- Earthing system design & installation.
- Demonstrated experience in:
- MV/LV switchgear operation and isolation procedures.
- Protection relays testing, programming, and troubleshooting
- Generator protection and coordination
- Parallel generator operation and synchronizing protections
- Motor maintenance, testing, and protection techniques
- VFD and motor starter troubleshooting
- Relay coordination and selectivity
- Emergency Diesel Generators.
- Strong working knowledge of NFPA, ANSI, IEEE, IEC, API, NEC, and NACE standards.
- Hands-on experience in:
- Electrical equipment installation.
- Project pre-commissioning, commissioning, testing, and startup with proven experience in Brownfields and Greenfields.
- Experience in preparation and review of:
- Electrical equipment layouts
- Plant cable routing layouts
- Lighting and grounding layouts
- Proven experience in electrical asset integrity management.
- Ability to conduct failure analysis and issue technical recommendations.
Please send your CV to this email: info@tgs.com.jo
