25-045.U - Process Engineer

Job Objective

Act as process engineer to debottleneck operations, improve runtime, and optimize throughput. Provides engineering support to Operations personnel to analyze and resolve operational problems and identify and implement value-enhancing projects. Responsible for delivering and managing all project phases, including planning and design, cost estimating, implementation, and construction. Provides engineering & technical support to the Commercial team for new project development and due diligence on acquisitions.

Essential Job Responsibilities

• Regularly interacts with control room, operations leadership, and field personnel to analyze operational problems, develop alternatives and recommend solutions.
• Seeks and identifies opportunities to optimize systems, save costs, improve operations, and maximize operating performance & value.
• Performs scope development, preliminary design, cost estimating, detailed design, economic analysis, and evaluation of options for maintenance expense and/or capital jobs and growth capital projects.
• Supervises and approves modifications, installation, decommissioning, and other field work, and monitors costs.
• Coordinates and manages third party engineering designs for projects.
• Obtains bids and coordinates equipment and personnel for field activities.
• Capable of demonstrating effective people skills to interact with partners, service providers, peers, support staff and field personnel.
• Must be willing and capable of effectively soliciting ideas from all people involved in the operations or project activities to achieve efficiency and ownership to meet the company's goals.
• Works closely with the project manager or assumes the role of project manager for individual projects or programs as needed.
• Ensures alignment with Harvest policies and practices, applicable codes, recommended practices, and all government regulations.
• Meet with various local, state, and federal agencies regarding assigned projects as needed.
• Performs due diligence work on midstream assets proposed to be acquired by Harvest, including participating in data rooms, conducting field reviews and observations
• Present information at our field monthly update meetings on overall company performance and trends.
• Assist in incident response efforts, if required.
  
  

Other Job Responsibilities

• Must be willing and available to travel to field locations regularly or as needed.
• Must be willing to travel overnight and by large and small commercial aircraft, helicopter, boat, and vehicles, as required.
• Adheres to the company’s values – integrity, ownership, urgency, alignment, and innovation.
• Supports company vision and mission.
• Adheres to established work schedule, attendance standards and is punctual to work and meetings.
• Other duties as assigned by management.
  
  

Qualifications

• Ten (10) years minimum oil and gas /process engineering experience.
• Broad-based engineering and operational knowledge; able to understand, lead efforts in, or provide internal support for civil, electrical, mechanical and process control issues or designs.
• Experience in creating engineering deliverables such as design basis, heat and material balance, PFDs, P&IDs. Also familiar with sizing process equipment (separators, heat exchangers, pumps, compressors, relief valves, and control valves) and developing data sheets and specifications.
• Thorough understanding of equipment design, fabrication, and installation practices.
• Familiar with process simulation and hydraulic modeling software.
• Experience in process safety management and hazard analysis preferred.
• Experience in cost estimating, budgeting, scheduling, planning, and contracting.
• Ability to maintain a positive, professional and solutions-oriented approach with employees, supervisors, other departments, officials, and the public.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with special ability to translate complex technical information into an organized and presentable manner.
• Self-starter with proven leadership skills, team player, comfortable working under pressure, and dedicated to developing workforce.
• Ability to solve problems accurately and exceptional proficiency in interpreting process related data. Ability to complete multiple, diverse tasks of differing priorities.
• Willing to travel 25% of the time.
• Preferred: Experience with Harvest Midstream or affiliate company
  
  

Education Requirements

• Required: Bachelor of Science in Chemical or Mechanical Engineering from an accredited university
  
  

Certifications, Licenses, Registrations

• Professional Engineers license, preferred.