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Reviewing breakdowns and failures with the intention of eliminating root causes of the failures.
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Troubleshooting of electrical systems
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Drive Innovative Process Improvements & Fast Track Your Career at Growing Energy Company in Paradise of Oahu

For the newly minted Electrical/Mechanical Engineer with an innovative mindset who can infuse a fresh perspective and drive improvements to optimize the reliability of refinery systems, consider this high impact opportunity replete with a variety of rewards, including:   Par Pacific Holdings, Inc., based in Houston, Texas, owns, manages and maintains interests in energy and infrastructure businesses. Par Pacific's strategy is to identify, acquire and operate energy and infrastructure companies with attractive competitive positions. We own and operate one of the largest energy infrastructure networks in Hawaii with a 94,000-bpd refinery, a logistics network supplying the major islands of the state and 90 retail locations. In Wyoming, Par Pacific owns a refinery and associated logistics network in a niche market. Par Pacific also owns 42.3% of Laramie Energy, LLC, a joint venture entity focused on producing natural gas in Garfield, Mesa and Rio Blanco Counties, Colorado. In January 2018, Par Petroleum LLC, a subsidiary of Par Pacific Holdings Inc., entered into a definitive agreement to acquire 33 Cenex Zip Trip convenience stores in eastern Washington and northwestern Idaho from CHS Inc. The c-stores are Par Pacific Holdings' first retail assets in the continental United States; we have more than 90 retail outlets in Hawaii. Par Pacific has an active, opportunistic growth strategy. Our common stock is publicly traded on the NYSE MKT under the trading symbol "PARR".

Note: Par Pacific will not accept calls from third party recruiters. All candidates are required to apply through this web posting.

The Requirements

To be a good fit for the Electrical Engineer opportunity, you will have:
  • Bachelor’s degree in Electrical or Mechanical Engineering
  • 2 years of Electrical/Mechanical/Petroleum engineering or refinery experience is preferred Quick question for you - click here
  • SAP knowledge, including ability to create work orders from notifications is a plus
  • Proficiency in AutoCAD is a plus
  • Proficiency with MS Office tools (Word, Excel, Outlook)
  • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to engage with diverse stakeholders and cross-functional project teams throughout the refinery
  • Strong organization, prioritization and problem-solving skills; the ability to work well with deadlines
  • Ability to work in difficult conditions and with situations that involve customers, operations and emergencies
  • Ability to be on-call work during off-hours, especially for emergencies and turnarounds
The position may be exposed to heat, noise, humidity, altitude, smoke, fumes, dust, gases, hydrocarbons, paints, and solvents. You will need to wear personal protective equipment, which we will provide, including safety glasses, flame resistant clothing, earplugs, gloves, steel toe shoes, and a hard hat. We also provide respirators. Additionally, you must have the physical stamina to climb, squat, lift, stand, etc. You will be comfortable with heights and confined spaces.

The Role

This is an individual contributor role, reporting to the Reliability Superintendent as you join our Oahu office. Your mission is to improve the reliability of refinery electrical/instrumentation systems, including design engineering, maintenance/upgrading and troubleshooting. At a high level, you'll spend about 80% of your time proactively driving analytical analyses to make systems more robust and less prone to failure; and the remaining 20% on reactively managing field activities. Specifically, your responsibilities will be to:
  • Provide specifications and installation guidelines for electrical/instruments systems.
  • Provide technical leadership to others in the field of electrical/instrumentation.
  • Conduct troubleshooting of refinery-wide electrical systems.
  • Leverage computer-assisted software (AutoCAD) to create/update drawings.
  • Provide support/quality assurance for ongoing projects.
  • Coordinate plant efforts in reviewing breakdowns and failures with the intention of eliminating root causes of failures, increasing the on-stream plant reliability and reducing costs.
  • Keep a pulse on the latest technical innovations in electrical engineering.
  • Assist in a continuous improvement process by identifying new opportunities that enhance profitability and reliability.
  • Assist with P&ID development and updating (as-built P&IDs) to reflect field changes.
  • Provide technical support to the maintenance department, including supervision of electrical checks prior to system commissioning.
  • Develop and maintain standardized specifications for electrical selection and installation.
  • Provide primary review of vendor/contractor electrical design to ensure compliance with refinery specifications and applicable safety codes.
  • Assist in training of maintenance and operations personnel.
  • Develop PM tasks in SAP to improve reliability of electrical/instruments.
  • Ensure Reliability Superintendent is informed on all activities, opportunities, and status of assigned responsibilities.
  • Participate in MOC (Management of Change) process.

The Rewards

Employee Value Proposition: Par Pacific is a growing energy company that provides more opportunity and career growth potential because of our ambition, entrepreneurial mindset, premier market position, and integrated business systems. “Growth” is the operative word here and we are looking for high impact players who can take on larger roles and responsibilities and continue to grow with our organization.

Empowerment: We'll entrust you with the freedom and flexibility to drive process improvements to meet our refinery objectives and achieve success.

Unique Culture: There is nothing ordinary about Par Pacific – an unorthodox niche player in the energy space that drives operations from production-to-delivery. And there’s certainly nothing ordinary about Par Pacific people. If you’re at Par, you’re a driven, innovative entrepreneurial professional infused with a spirit of continuous improvement…If this describes you, you'll fit right in!

Excellent compensation: In addition to a competitive salary and bonus opportunity, we offer a strong comprehensive benefits package that includes medical, dental and vision insurance; life and AD&D insurance; a 401(k) with company match; a robust paid-time-off and vacation benefit (9/80 schedule where you enjoy every other Friday off) retirement savings plans; employee assistance programs; gym membership allowance, and more.

Keys to Success

While your success in this role will stem from a strong sense of ownership, not needing a permission slip to challenge the status quo, infuse fresh perspective and drive continuous improvement, it will also very much depend on the relationships you build--both internally and externally--and you will call upon the following skills:
  • Interpersonal savvy -- you'll rely on the cooperation of diverse personalities to achieve your objectives, and this will require the ability to be outgoing and effectively interact with a wide range of stakeholders—from planners to customers--with tact and diplomacy, setting clear expectations and knowing when to push back and say "no" and when to escalate situations beyond your control.
  • Flexibility -- this is a multifunctional role and you’ll be able to manage multiple projects in various stages of completion and drive them each to resolution while remaining adaptive and ready to shift priorities as the need arises.
  • Forward thinking -- you’ll take a creative approach to solving problems as you proactively control situations ahead of time--rather than simply reacting to them--and bring new and innovative ideas to the table to make our refinery systems more robust and failure proof.
Drive Innovative Process Improvements & Fast Track Your Career at Growing Energy Company in Paradise of Oahu

For the newly minted Electrical/Mechanical Engineer with an innovative mindset who can infuse a fresh perspective and drive improvements to optimize the reliability of refinery systems, consider this high impact opportunity replete with a variety of rewards, including:   Par Pacific Holdings, Inc., based in Houston, Texas, owns, manages and maintains interests in energy and infrastructure businesses. Par Pacific's strategy is to identify, acquire and operate energy and infrastructure companies with attractive competitive positions. We own and operate one of the largest energy infrastructure networks in Hawaii with a 94,000-bpd refinery, a logistics network supplying the major islands of the state and 90 retail locations. In Wyoming, Par Pacific owns a refinery and associated logistics network in a niche market. Par Pacific also owns 42.3% of Laramie Energy, LLC, a joint venture entity focused on producing natural gas in Garfield, Mesa and Rio Blanco Counties, Colorado. In January 2018, Par Petroleum LLC, a subsidiary of Par Pacific Holdings Inc., entered into a definitive agreement to acquire 33 Cenex Zip Trip convenience stores in eastern Washington and northwestern Idaho from CHS Inc. The c-stores are Par Pacific Holdings' first retail assets in the continental United States; we have more than 90 retail outlets in Hawaii. Par Pacific has an active, opportunistic growth strategy. Our common stock is publicly traded on the NYSE MKT under the trading symbol "PARR".

Note: Par Pacific will not accept calls from third party recruiters. All candidates are required to apply through this web posting.

The Requirements

To be a good fit for the Electrical Engineer opportunity, you will have:
  • Bachelor’s degree in Electrical or Mechanical Engineering
  • 2 years of Electrical/Mechanical/Petroleum engineering or refinery experience is preferred Quick question for you - click here
  • SAP knowledge, including ability to create work orders from notifications is a plus
  • Proficiency in AutoCAD is a plus
  • Proficiency with MS Office tools (Word, Excel, Outlook)
  • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to engage with diverse stakeholders and cross-functional project teams throughout the refinery
  • Strong organization, prioritization and problem-solving skills; the ability to work well with deadlines
  • Ability to work in difficult conditions and with situations that involve customers, operations and emergencies
  • Ability to be on-call work during off-hours, especially for emergencies and turnarounds
The position may be exposed to heat, noise, humidity, altitude, smoke, fumes, dust, gases, hydrocarbons, paints, and solvents. You will need to wear personal protective equipment, which we will provide, including safety glasses, flame resistant clothing, earplugs, gloves, steel toe shoes, and a hard hat. We also provide respirators. Additionally, you must have the physical stamina to climb, squat, lift, stand, etc. You will be comfortable with heights and confined spaces.

The Role

This is an individual contributor role, reporting to the Reliability Superintendent as you join our Oahu office. Your mission is to improve the reliability of refinery electrical/instrumentation systems, including design engineering, maintenance/upgrading and troubleshooting. At a high level, you'll spend about 80% of your time proactively driving analytical analyses to make systems more robust and less prone to failure; and the remaining 20% on reactively managing field activities. Specifically, your responsibilities will be to:
  • Provide specifications and installation guidelines for electrical/instruments systems.
  • Provide technical leadership to others in the field of electrical/instrumentation.
  • Conduct troubleshooting of refinery-wide electrical systems.
  • Leverage computer-assisted software (AutoCAD) to create/update drawings.
  • Provide support/quality assurance for ongoing projects.
  • Coordinate plant efforts in reviewing breakdowns and failures with the intention of eliminating root causes of failures, increasing the on-stream plant reliability and reducing costs.
  • Keep a pulse on the latest technical innovations in electrical engineering.
  • Assist in a continuous improvement process by identifying new opportunities that enhance profitability and reliability.
  • Assist with P&ID development and updating (as-built P&IDs) to reflect field changes.
  • Provide technical support to the maintenance department, including supervision of electrical checks prior to system commissioning.
  • Develop and maintain standardized specifications for electrical selection and installation.
  • Provide primary review of vendor/contractor electrical design to ensure compliance with refinery specifications and applicable safety codes.
  • Assist in training of maintenance and operations personnel.
  • Develop PM tasks in SAP to improve reliability of electrical/instruments.
  • Ensure Reliability Superintendent is informed on all activities, opportunities, and status of assigned responsibilities.
  • Participate in MOC (Management of Change) process.

The Rewards

Employee Value Proposition: Par Pacific is a growing energy company that provides more opportunity and career growth potential because of our ambition, entrepreneurial mindset, premier market position, and integrated business systems. “Growth” is the operative word here and we are looking for high impact players who can take on larger roles and responsibilities and continue to grow with our organization.

Empowerment: We'll entrust you with the freedom and flexibility to drive process improvements to meet our refinery objectives and achieve success.

Unique Culture: There is nothing ordinary about Par Pacific – an unorthodox niche player in the energy space that drives operations from production-to-delivery. And there’s certainly nothing ordinary about Par Pacific people. If you’re at Par, you’re a driven, innovative entrepreneurial professional infused with a spirit of continuous improvement…If this describes you, you'll fit right in!

Excellent compensation: In addition to a competitive salary and bonus opportunity, we offer a strong comprehensive benefits package that includes medical, dental and vision insurance; life and AD&D insurance; a 401(k) with company match; a robust paid-time-off and vacation benefit (9/80 schedule where you enjoy every other Friday off) retirement savings plans; employee assistance programs; gym membership allowance, and more.

Keys to Success

While your success in this role will stem from a strong sense of ownership, not needing a permission slip to challenge the status quo, infuse fresh perspective and drive continuous improvement, it will also very much depend on the relationships you build--both internally and externally--and you will call upon the following skills:
  • Interpersonal savvy -- you'll rely on the cooperation of diverse personalities to achieve your objectives, and this will require the ability to be outgoing and effectively interact with a wide range of stakeholders—from planners to customers--with tact and diplomacy, setting clear expectations and knowing when to push back and say "no" and when to escalate situations beyond your control.
  • Flexibility -- this is a multifunctional role and you’ll be able to manage multiple projects in various stages of completion and drive them each to resolution while remaining adaptive and ready to shift priorities as the need arises.
  • Forward thinking -- you’ll take a creative approach to solving problems as you proactively control situations ahead of time--rather than simply reacting to them--and bring new and innovative ideas to the table to make our refinery systems more robust and failure proof.
Par Pacific is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status.

If you are a qualified individual with a disability or a disabled veteran, you have the right to request an accommodation if you are unable or limited in your ability to use or access our career center as a result of your disability. To request an accommodation, contact the Human Resources Department at jennifer.krause@pantheon.io.
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