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.