Terminal Operations Engineering Manager
Job Description
POSITION SUMMARY:
To provide engineering support to bulk liquid terminal midstream operations and commercial teams. Provides engineering analysis of operational problems and then identifies resolution or value-[1]enhancing projects.
Provides full range of engineering & technical support to the commercial team for new project development and due diligence on acquisitions.
Position Responsibilities:
- Regularly interacts with control room, field operations leadership and field personnel to analyze operational problems, develop alternatives and recommend optimal solutions.
- Seeks and identifies opportunities to optimize systems, save costs and improve operations and maximize operating performance & value.
- Provides conceptual and detailed design engineering, scope development, schedule, and cost estimates for maintenance expense and/or capital jobs as well as growth capital projects up to $5 MM.
- Trouble-shoot operational issues at bulk liquids terminals and pump stations.
- Develop, support, and maintain facilities performance reporting and facilities project KPIs
- Size relief valves and control valves for both gas and liquids
- Coordinates and manages third party engineering designs for projects and studies.
- Coordinates with project engineers and/or construction crews to ensure execution on desired scope of work.
- Participates or leads PHAs for terminal facilities and is responsible for resolving or identifying projects to address identified issues.
- Performs hydraulic simulations of pressures and flow rates through pipelines transporting oil, NGLs or natural gas.
- Works in coordination with the commercial team in new growth project development, providing iterations and various options for initial feasibility designs & cost estimates.
- Assist in emergency response efforts if required.
Position Qualifications:
- A STEM degree with a preference in Mechanical or Chemical Engineering from an accredited university.
- Ten (10) years minimum oil and gas /process engineering experience.
- Five (5) years minimum process or project experience in a terminal, plant, or refinery environment.
- Broad based engineering and operational knowledge with the ability to understand, lead efforts in or
- provide internal support for civil, electrical, mechanical and process control issues or designs.
- Experience with OSHA Process Safety Management (PSM, 1910.119) and Management of Change (MOC) processes.
- Experience with Hazard Identification studies (HAZIDs), Process Hazards Analyses (PHAs), and Hazard and
- Operability studies (HAZOPs).
- Experience with controls design deliverables, including I/O list, process control narratives, cause & effect charts, alarm rationalization, and manage third-party control system suppliers to comply with the control system design requirements.
- Ability to complete multiple, diverse tasks of differing priorities.
- Mechanical design and engineering applicability such as API 653, API 570, ASME B31.4, API 1104.
- Knowledge in pipeline safety: 49 CFR 192, 49 CFR 195.
- Ability to maintain a positive, professional, and solutions-oriented approach with employees, supervisors, other departments, officials, and the public.
- Willing to travel 25% of the time