Senior Electrical Reliability Engineer

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 lifestyle 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.

The Senior Electrical Reliability Engineer is responsible for managing the facilities power distribution systems and associated assets and helping to drive improvement in all areas of the mill.

• Demonstrate safe work practices
• Work as a liaison between Maintenance, Operations, and Engineering teams
• Work as a strategic partner in the electrical and instrumentation department primarily in failure prevention and long‑term support
• Provides technical assistance to production, reliability and quality groups as needed to solve equipment and process‑related problems and develop methods to improve processes
• Assists E&I Maintenance Supervisors and Planners with technical maintenance issues
• Optimize manufacturing processes by investigating and eliminating root causes of equipment failures
• MOC Champion to review, lead, or assist as needed

• Work with condition monitoring program to reduce RED’s list (Vibration, IR, etc.)
• Work with system analysis tools and vendors to improve system power quality
• Support site power system study and model updates (Relay Protection, Easy Power Model, etc.)
• Help to establish maintenance best practices
• Perform BDA/RCA/RCFA/5‑Whys/defect elimination on contributors of yield, utilization, and capacity losses due to failures attributed to equipment, processes, etc.
• Identify and resolve chronic failures (bad actors) through BDA/RCA/RCFA/5‑Whys/defect elimination
• Establish and monitor predictive maintenance program (PM Optimization)
• Calculate asset life‑cycle and costs on bad actors
• Perform criticality analysis work
• Work with other disciplines within the reliability team to update and improve current criticality model
• Define critical spares and BOMs as needed
• Verify critical spare list is updated annually. Work with engineering to verify BOMs are in place after commissioning
• Conduct asset risk/health analysis
• Create and Update Assets within JDE (as needed)
• Create low voltage PM scope for major outage annually – to include MCC, emergency generators, switch gear, UPS systems, transformers, and battery backups
• Work with electrical and instrumentation crews to improve workflow follow‑up
• Maintain transformer health assessments and optimizations
• Develop/Update Switching Orders – Standard/Non‑Standard LOTO

• Assist in the management of the Predictive and Preventative Maintenance programs including vibration coverage through the mill, plant tank integrity, pressure vessel integrity, and pre‑post failure reports
• Work as a strategic partner in the electrical and instrumentation department primarily in failure prevention and long‑term support
• Weekend Duty and overtime as needed – must call in to weekend status update meetings and provide onsite support as required
• Manage capital projects as required
• Facilitate Reliability Steering Teams

• Actively seeks and allocates appropriate decision‑making authority or task responsibility to appropriate individuals based on their abilities, availability, motivation, and development needs; considers potential positive and negative impact, business unit priorities, organizational values, and the opportunity to enhance others’ knowledge and skills
• Possesses strong troubleshooting skills
• Unders…