Electrical Engineering Manager
🔍 Midland, Texas
JOB FUNCTIONS AND KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
The Manager, Instrumentation, Electrical & Controls (IEC), is responsible for providing leadership and technical governance for all IEC engineering activities that support midstream assets. This role ensures the safe, reliable, code-compliant, and cost-effective design, execution, and operation of electrical power systems, instrumentation, control systems, and safety systems across processing plants, compressor stations, and pipelines.
This leader serves as the IEC authority for capital projects, operational support, and engineering standards, while building and developing a high-performing technical team aligned with Targa’s growth, safety, and reliability objectives.
Lead and develop instrumentation, electrical, and controls resources supporting Operations and Major Projects.
Set clear expectations for technical quality, safety, responsiveness, and accountability across the team.
Provide technical mentorship and career development for engineers and specialists, building long‑term bench strength for growth.
Serve as the senior escalation point for complex technical, reliability, and operational issues.
In partnership with other engineering managers, own and maintain Targa’s IEC engineering standards, specifications, and design philosophies.
Ensure consistent application of standards across greenfield projects, brownfield expansions, and facility upgrades.
Ensure compliance with applicable codes, regulations, and best practices including NEC, NFPA, API, ISA, IEEE, and PSM requirements.
Provide technical review and approval for electrical area classification, power system architecture, control narratives, SIS/ESD systems, and automation strategies.
Acts as technical IEC oversight lead for capital projects, from early concept through commissioning and startup.
Partner with Project Management to define IEC scope, execution strategies, schedules, and budgets.
Oversee and direct EPC and third‑party engineering firms to ensure alignment with standards, safety expectations, and execution quality.
Support project gate reviews, technical risk assessments, and resolution of complex IEC execution risks.
Manage IEC engineering budgets, workload planning, and resources to support both sustaining capital and growth projects.
Provide technical input to AFE development, cost estimating, and equipment selection decisions.
Support long‑term electrical infrastructure planning, utility coordination, and power sourcing strategies.
Influence vendor strategies, framework agreements, and technical evaluations for critical IEC equipment and systems.
Build and maintain relationships with utilities, manage load requests, and review and negotiate connection agreements.
Oversee field work and projects by coordinating activities, monitoring budgets, and ensuring the timely and accurate completion of multiple priorities.
- Other duties as assigned.
MINIMUM ESSENTIAL QUALIFICATIONS:
Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, or related engineering discipline from an accredited university
Six or more years of progressive engineering experience in midstream oil and gas or comparable industrial environments.
Strong working knowledge of hazardous area power systems, control systems, and safety‑critical designs.
Regular and reliable attendance; willingness to travel to off-site field/corporate locations at least 25% of the time.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
Ten or more years of relevant experience, including leadership experience in midstream gas or crude gathering, processing, operations, project management, and/or engineering roles.
Conceptual understanding of control systems and how they are designed, applied, and documented to oil and gas facilities.
Experience with electrical modeling software such as SKM or ETAP to perform power studies, short-circuit calculations, coordination studies, arc-flash analyses, and troubleshooting.
Demonstrated experience leading technical teams and supporting large‑scale capital projects.
Experienced in troubleshooting and design of power distribution equipment and protective relaying.
PHYSICAL DEMANDS AND WORK ENVIRONMENT:
- Ability to work in changing climate conditions and a plant environment.
- Follow and adhere to all applicable Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) guidelines (ex: eye protection, footwear, Nomex).
- Ability to work overtime, weekends, holidays, with the ability to respond to call outs as needed to fulfill business objective and the ability to work shifts for plant or field conditions
- Ability to travel to field sites up to 30-40% of time.
- Ability to frequently throughout the work shift, push, pull and lift at least a minimum of 50lbs to a minimum height of 3-4 feet and maneuver equipment or parts as needed.
- Ability to work outdoors in changing climate conditions.
- Able to work in close quarters: i.e., work while kneeling, squatting, sitting, climbing, and standing.
- Ability to climb up and down ladders, stairs and platforms at varying heights.
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY:
Targa Resources provides equal employment opportunities based on merit, experience, and other work-related criteria and without regard to race, color, ethnicity, religion, national origin, sex, age, pregnancy, disability, veteran status, or any other status protected by applicable law. We also strive to provide reasonable accommodation to employees’ beliefs and practices that do not conflict with Targa’s policies and applicable law. We value the unique contributions that every employee brings to their role with Targa.