Maintenance Engineer, Instrumentation & Electrical

Date Posted: June 9, 2026

Closing Date: July 6, 2026

Reports To: Asset Integrity Supervisor

Location: Medicine Hat

Duration: Full time, Permanent

Position Summary

The Maintenance Engineer – Electrical & Instrumentation is responsible for validating or engineering design via the management of change (MOC) process under Maintenance Engineering. This includes providing technical responses and performing modifications to electrical or instrumentation designs to support plant reliability.

The role supports monitoring of the plant reliability framework, which includes identifying reliability risks that could impact the plant or business operations, and delivering reliability strategies, analysis and solutions to measure and improve plant performance.

Position Responsibilities

Key responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Provide electrical or instrumentation designs for low risk modifications and upgrades made to the plant
• Review and verify the electrical or instrumentation design integrity of low risk equipment
• Support materials selection to minimize costs and maximize facility reliability and maintainability
• Support Maintenance and Operations departments in regard to emergency changes and equipment maintenance issues
• Support management requests related to electrical or instrumentation engineering issues
• Utilize appropriate codes and standards, calculations, and specifications
• Analyze asset performance to identify issues such as high cost of maintenance; confirming appropriate management strategies are in place for all equipment; and, effective use of predictive and other methods of investigation to ensure processes are in place to identify and isolate inherent reliability problems
• Utilize the Management of Change (MOC) procedure to provide, manage and execute engineering solutions to equipment failures and other issues that impact plant reliability
• Apply robust reliability analysis using data analysis tools (e.g. statistical modelling, reliability modelling and prediction, fault tree analysis, and Weibull analysis) and root cause analysis
• Analyze plant reliability data, including both equipment and production data
• Provide input into specific risk assessments, including both equipment and system risks
• Work collaboratively across all departments to determine asset performance
• Develop, maintain and continuously improve systems to determine and measure the reliability of plants, equipment, components and processes
• Measure and report overall equipment effectiveness
• Identify other parameters that affect and impact the operating condition, reliability and cost of assets
• Provide technical support to all departments in the area of asset management to improve both plant overall and equipment reliability and availability performance
• Apply value analysis to repair/replace, repair/redesign, and manufacture/purchase decisions, as appropriate, using reliability tools (e.g. future reliability and availability performance)
• Collaborate with Technical team, as well as Project personnel, to ensure that reliability and maintainability of new and/or modified equipment installations is understood and meets requirements over the entire life cycle of the asset
• Collaborate with the Maintenance and Technical Team in developing and actioning the annual department plan; ensure individual activities align with the Medicine Hat business plan and Corporate Strategy
• Lead and/or collaborate on global or local projects

Position Qualifications

Experience and Technical Knowledge/Skills

• Undergraduate degree with a major in an engineering discipline required.
• Minimum of 8 years related industrial experience, with at least 2 years in a reliability related role
• Professional Engineer (P. Eng)
• Experience with incident investigation (e.g. Tap Root)
• Experience with reliability analysis/modelling is an asset
• Six years’ experience in electrical and instrumentation engineering preferred
• Familiarity with industry codes and regulations, as well as electrical and instrumentation engineering practices
• Demonstrated proficiency with Microsoft Office programs

Competencies

• Customer focused; dedicated to exceeding the expectations of internal and external customers
• Excellent written and verbal communication and listening skills
• Strong ability to build and maintain relationships, including strong team collaboration skills within diverse teams
• Technically competent with strong problem solving, critical thinking and decision making skills based on sound engineering analysis
• Innovative and creative thinking ability
• Independently motivated with a strong, continuous improvement focus oriented towards actively seeking opportunities to improve plant reliability
• Sound judgment evidenced by a demonstrated ability to make valuable recommendations and decisions based on a mixture of analysis, wisdom and experience
• Strong time management, planning and prioritization skills with a demonstrated ability to manage multiple, sometimes competing, priorities and readily adapt to change while maintaining a high level of efficiency and productivity
• Demonstrated respect for cultural differences
• Personal commitment to ongoing self-development, solid learning agility and a willingness to develop in the role