Senior Renewable Natural Gas (RNG) Process Consultant - Part Time As Needed

Our world demands low carbon energy solutions to achieve a Net Zero future

And as we look to transition from traditional energy sources to adopt more renewable alternatives, you can play a key role in enabling and accelerating this change. 

We’ll support you every step of the way as you join us in finding sustainable energy solutions to make a positive impact that will last for generations. 

Who are we looking for?   

We are looking for a Senior Renewable Natural Gas (RNG) Process Consultant to serve as a trusted partner and work with RNG sites to address complex challenges, optimize operations, reduce costs, enhance safety, and support site achievement of strategic goals in a competitive and ever-evolving industry. 

Working with an energetic and high performing team, this position offers a variety of work and will see you involved in: 

In your role as a Senior RNG Process Consultant, you leverage specialized process knowledge and expertise in RNG plant operations to develop design solutions, optimize unit operations, and enhance safety. As a strategic advisor, you will collaborate with operations and engineering teams to recommend process improvements to align operational performance with broader business goals. By leveraging extensive experience and up-to-date industry knowledge, you introduce best practices and value-added innovative solutions that contribute to safer, more reliable and more profitable plant operations. 

This strategic advisory role resides in our Energy Services Team in Houston, TX and reports to the Director of Process Engineering and Technology Readiness.

Candidate must have valid employment authorization in the U.S. and must not require visa sponsorship now or in the future. This position is not open for non-immigrant visa sponsorship.

This position will be part-time, and on a hybrid, remote work schedule.  

What you will bring to the Team:

• Process Optimization and Efficiency Solutions: Apply expertise in RNG and landfill gas clean-up technologies to identify opportunities to address plant operational inefficiencies, optimize unit performance, improve product quality, and generate cost savings. Evaluate constraints impacting throughput and develop options to eliminate production bottlenecks. Advise on the scope of process improvements and support implementation.
• Process Improvement Projects: Review RNG plant operations and identify opportunities for equipment upgrades and other targeted improvements. Ensure designs comply with safety standards, environmental regulations, and pipeline quality specifications. Contribute to development and updating of process flow diagrams (PFDs) and piping and instrumentation diagrams (P&IDs). Assess current instrumentation and approaches to advanced control and identify improvements to support strategic gains in plant productivity and market position.
• Winning Work and Growing Customer Base: Assist in crafting GHD’s RNG engagement strategy and support the development of proposals and presentations aimed at securing new business opportunities. Participate in market analysis conversations and introduce actionable recommendations to enhance customer engagement and business growth.
• Leveraging Relationships and Reputation: Leverage a strong network of key client contacts, industry connections, and professional reputation to initiate new customer engagements and accelerate invitations for onsite introductory meetings. These meetings enable focused dialogue around site needs, helping to position GHD’s offerings to deliver value and measurable business results.
• Engineering Solutions Design: Review engineering solutions and the associated validation process to enable the realization of a design brief (for example, in terms of functionality, performance, and cost) that conforms to organizational and/or regulatory standards.
• Knowledge Management System: Work within established knowledge management systems to deliver preset outcomes for an area of responsibility.
• Solution Development: Define and deliver services that meet customer needs by selecting the best possible approaches available within established systems.
• Personal Safety: 
  • Strong understanding of safety practices and procedures for operating sites to ensure own personal safety in a plant operating environment. 
  • Knowledge of process safety considerations and impacts on equipment and project designs.
• Industry Knowledge: