Facility Engineer - Operations Engineering

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JOB SUMMARY

This position serves as a technical authority for facility operations, providing engineering support for day-to-day challenges and leading capital maintenance projects from concept to completion. The role plays a critical part in incident response, risk reduction, regulatory compliance, and continuous improvement, working cross-functionally to ensure safe, reliable pipeline facility operations.

Job Profile Summary

This position is responsible for technical engineering support of company facilities. This includes responding to and leading the response to operational issues 24-7 such as releases, overpressure events, regulatory audits, equipment failure, abnormal operation conditions, and incident investigations. Use engineering analysis to troubleshoot recurring operational issues and implement solutions. Work with various stakeholders to identify leak risk reduction projects and follow through to implementation. Review various company projects to determine impact to facility and review and approve MOCRs. Maintain and update procedures and engineering standards with changing regulations and emerging technology. Lead program development projects that improve current processes.

Manage PLC (project life cycle) for capital maintenance projects which include scoping, submitting for funding, forecasting and execution of projects within pipeline facilities. Lead teams of contractors and inspectors to execute projects to completion. Manage projects within defined budgets and complete monthly financial forecast. Communicate with stakeholders during duration of projects and operational issues.

 

Essential Functions and Responsibilities

Provide guidance, troubleshooting, and support of day-to-day operational issues and activities. 

 

Responsibilities include but are not limited to: 

• Troubleshooting operational issues including incorrectly working equipment, overpressure response and restart, product release investigation, review abnormal operations, engineering support for operations projects, incident investigations, remaining strength calculations for corrosion and resulting pipe repairs inside a facility, due diligence on compliance issues, valve failure investigations.

 

• Management of expense initiatives including hydrotest of facilities, leak risk reduction, and required infrastructure inspections.

 

• Manage PLC (project life cycle) for capital maintenance projects, including scoping, submitting for funding, forecasting and execution of projects within pipeline facilities.  Manage stakeholders and prioritize capital maintenance project execution. 

 

Education

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering and the following job related experience preferred

 

Work Experience

• Experience and training related to:

  • Transmission/gathering pipeline operations

  • Gas measurement and regulation activities

  • Processing and/or storage operations

  • Company/governmental operating and safety procedures

  • Pipeline stress/strain analyses

     

• Experience in engineering design and knowledge of criteria for natural gas, or NGLs in pipeline systems, or refined crude products.

• Experience at this level is typically attained with four or more years of experience in engineering, operations and/or project management

• Experience in use and function of applications such as: Microsoft Excel, Project, Access, Word, etc.

• Experience researching and preparing project materials and design specifications, contracts, agreements, budgets, engineering studies, and other relevant reports, forms, and correspondence

• Experience identifying, researching, understanding, evaluating, and prioritizing operational problems and coordinating appropriate action/response

 

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Knowledge of: pipelines or hydrocarbon processing and related facilities design, construction, operation, and maintenance

• Knowledge of: material failure and structural analysis and industry standards and governmental regulations

• Ability to: read and interpret governmental regulations, blueprints, contracts, manuals, specifications, surveys, charts, load studies, and other relevant reports and correspondence

• Ability to: analyze and resolve issues and/or questions concerning engineering design and calculations with supervisor assistance as needed o