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Electrical Team Lead

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Reference ID R180485 Updated 05/22/2025
Discipline Engineering
Trinidad and Tobago
Port of Spain
N/A

What’s the role

The Electrical Team Lead is responsible for ensuring the functional assurance and technical health of electrical engineering across Shell Trinidad and Tobago Limited (STTL).

This role will represent the Electrical Discipline through the Global Discipline Head and Regional TA1 in providing guidance on Shell policies, standards and guidelines associated with the engineering discipline and electrical safety. This includes providing leadership in day-to-day support for complex multi-disciplinary issues to ensure strategies that work towards achieving Goal Zero and to prevent loss of production rates and achieving the target Reliability of the facilities Electrical Systems.

What you’ll be doing

Leadership & Team Development

  • Lead and mentor the Electrical Engineering team, providing coaching, performance feedback, and career development.

  • Drive competency development for electrical personnel, including engineers, technicians, interns and graduates.

  • Promote a culture of continuous improvement and knowledge sharing.

Technical Assurance & Support

  • Provide expert technical support for electrical systems across Upstream Assets.

  • Ensure compliance with Shell’s SEAM (Safety, Environment & Asset Management) standards.

  • Lead or contribute to technical reviews, peer assists, and assurance processes.

  • Deliver integrated assurance for CAPEX/OPEX projects and act as Accountable or Responsible Technical Authority as required.

Electrical Safety & Compliance

  • Serve as Subject Matter Expert (SME) for Electrical Safety.

  • Develop and deliver training programs and maintain the Electrical Safety Rules.

  • Conduct LOA (assurance) audits, Arc Flash studies, and ensure compliance with Hazardous Area Classification standards.

  • Maintain safety-critical electrical drawings and documentation.

Asset Integrity & Maintenance

  • Develop and maintain Equipment Care Strategies and PM routines.

  • Provide engineered solutions for complex maintenance issues and root cause analyses.

  • Support Management of Change (MOC) processes for electrical modifications.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

  • Liaise with other disciplines (e.g., PACO, HSSE, Mechanical, Process) to develop optimized solutions.

  • Support hazard analysis processes (HAZID, HAZOP, SAFOP, Bow-Tie, QRA).

Strategic Planning & Budgeting

  • Contribute to OPEX and CAPEX planning.

  • Manage electrical service contracts and support asset integrity systems (e.g., CMMS, Document Control).

What you bring

  • Must have legal authorization to work in Trinidad & Tobago on a full-time basis for anyone other than current employer.

  • Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering is required, a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering will be favorable.

  • 12+ years of experience in electrical engineering, including high-voltage systems (≥12kV).

  • Proven expertise in design, operation, and maintenance of electrical systems in onshore/offshore environments.

  • Strong knowledge of industry standards and functional assurance practices.

  • Experience leading multidisciplinary teams and resolving complex technical issues.

  • Recognized experience as a technical authority in electrical engineering.

  • Strong communication and interpersonal skills.

  • Demonstrated ability to coach, mentor, and develop technical staff.

  • Commitment to HSSE excellence and continuous improvement.

What we offer

You bring your skills and experience to Shell and in return you work with our team of talented, committed people on one of the most important challenges facing our planet. You’ll have the opportunity to develop the skills you need to grow in an environment where we value honesty, integrity, and respect for one another. You’ll be able to balance your priorities as you become the best version of yourself.

  • Progress as a person as we work on the energy transition together.

  • Continuously grow the transferable skills you need to get ahead.

  • Work at the forefront of technology, trends, and practices.

  • Collaborate with experienced colleagues with unique expertise.

  • Achieve your balance in a values-led culture that encourages you to be the best version of yourself.

  • Benefit from flexible working hours, and the possibility of remote/mobile working.

  • Perform at your best with a competitive starting salary and annual performance related salary increase – our pay and benefits packages are considered to be among the best in the world.

  • Take advantage of paid parental leave, including for non-birthing parents.

  • Join an organisation working to become one of the most diverse and inclusive in the world. We strongly encourage applicants of all genders, ages, ethnicities, cultures, abilities, sexual orientation, and life experiences to apply.

  • Grow as you progress through diverse career opportunities in national and international teams.

  • Gain access to a wide range of training and development programmes.

Note: We are keen to support flexible working arrangements, subject to local regulations and legislative frameworks. If this is of interest to you, please describe in your application the type of flexible working arrangements for which you would like to be considered (e.g., part-time, job share).

We'd like you to know that Shell has a bold goal: to become one of the world’s most diverse and inclusive companies. You can get to know more about how we're working towards that goal, click here.

Shell in Trinidad & Tobago

Shell has been in Trinidad & Tobago for over 100 years and has played a major role in the development of the country’s hydrocarbon industry. At its pinnacle in the 1960s, Shell was said to be the largest private sector employer in the country, with a refinery at Point Fortin, the current location of the Atlantic LNG facility and a retail presence. Through more than 100 years of unbroken partnership, we have helped to unlock the country’s oil and gas potential, to the benefit of both the government and people. We value this long-term relationship, which is built on the principles of mutual respect and collaboration, as well as a stable political and commercial environment, all of which continues to foster an attractive investment climate.

Currently, Shell delivers an integrated gas operation to supply the petrochemical market and Atlantic LNG and is present in both offshore and onshore blocks (both operated and non-operated). We also have an equity in the Atlantic LNG plant in each of the four trains at the Point Fortin facility.

Our key pillars of economic diversification and livelihood development guide our engagement within the communities in which we operate, as well as at a national level.