Project E&I Engineer

BH-270119
  • Hourly
  • United States North Carolina Kings Mountain
  • Contract
  • Mining
New Opportunity!!  Project E&I Engineer

NES Fircroft is actively seeking an experienced E&I Engineer for a contract to perm opportunity with our client, a major Speciality Chemicals Manufacturer with a Plant Location in Kings Mountain, North Carolina!  This position will be providing E&I Engineering Design support to the site's Capital Projects Team.  

All interested candidates are encouraged to send their updated resume directly to gabriel.fox@nesfircroft.com along with their availability.  



Job Summary:

Our Client is seeking a Project Electrical and Instrument Engineer for the Kings Mountain site to provide E&I Engineering design in support of Site Capital Projects.

Primary Position Responsibilities:
  • Lead and participate in safety tailgates, follow client safety work rules and procedures, maintain safety awareness.
  • Design, procure, and startup Process Instrumentation systems such as Control Valves, Flow meters,
    Process Analyzers, Burners Control Systems, and other systems.
  • Lead and participate in installation, checkout, startup, troubleshooting, and tuning of new plant process controls equipment.
  • P&ID development, Control strategy, Estimating, Scheduling
  • Construction Package Design, including location plans, termination drawings, installation details, scope definition, I/O lists, Instrument lists.
  • Electrical specification and selection (Lighting, High, Medium, and Low Voltage Transformer, MCC, Capacitor, VFD)
  • Electrical design, startup, and troubleshooting (Arc Flash remediation, Lighting, Service Feeder, Transformer, MCC, Danfoss and Allen Bradley VFD, Motor controls, ETAP model, Ground fault protection, fuse coordination, Area classification analysis)
  • Opportunities to provide project management support for E&I discipline-heavy projects

Education & Experience Requirements:
  • Bachelors Degree in Electrical Engineering strongly preferred
  • Minimum of 10 years experience in an Industrial Plant environment in general process instrumentation design, and low voltage motor controls

Essential Qualifications:
  • In depth knowledge of Excel, Approach, Access, Word, SAP
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills
  • Knowledge of OSHA, NFPA 70E, NEC, etc
  • Excellent people skills - Customer focused
  • Team Oriented


With over 90 years' combined experience, NES Fircroft (NES) is proud to be the world's leading engineering staffing provider spanning the Oil & Gas, Power & Renewables, Chemicals, Construction & Infrastructure, Life Sciences, Mining and Manufacturing sectors worldwide. With more than 80 offices in 45 countries, we are able to provide our clients with the engineering and technical expertise they need, wherever and whenever it is needed. We offer contractors far more than a traditional recruitment service, supporting with everything from securing visas and work permits, to providing market-leading benefits packages and accommodation, ensuring they are safely and compliantly able to support our clients.

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