Associate Engineer, Production

Venture Global LNG; Cameron; On-site; GBP 52,000 - 67,000; Full time

Job summary

Venture Global LNG is seeking an Associate Production Engineer to join our Cameron, LA team with travel as needed. You will focus on transitioning the facility from EPC to operations and developing the Ready for Operations schedule.

Reporting to the Manager of Production Engineering, you will collaborate with operations, maintenance, and engineering to meet safety and reliability KPIs, build real-time performance models, and set daily production targets for the CP2 LNG Trains.

Qualifications

• 1–4 years' experience as a process/production engineer.
• Oil & gas experience required; LNG preferred.
• Bachelor's degree in Process/Chemical or Petroleum Engineering.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain a facility production forecasting model.
• Support tools for production, environmental and compliance reporting.
• Coordinate with maintenance, gas supply, commercial operations and finance on facility operations.
• Set CP2 Facility LNG Trains Production daily targets and develop the Production Plan for the day.
• Lead or participate in investigations to improve CP Facility LNG Trains performance.

Skills

Process engineering

Oil & Gas experience

LNG applications

Troubleshooting

Education

Bachelor's degree in Process/Chemical or Petroleum Engineering

Tools

Mass and energy balance modeling

Process simulation software

Job description

Venture Global LNG ("Venture Global") is a long-term, low-cost provider of American-produced liquefied natural gas. The company's Louisiana-based export projects service the global demand for North American natural gas and support the long-term development of clean and reliable North American energy supplies. Using reliable, proven technology in an innovative plant design configuration, Venture Global's modular, mid-scale plant design will replace traditional designs as it allows for the same efficiency and operational reliability at significantly lower capital cost.

We Are Seeking Qualified Applicants For The Position

Associate Engineer, Production

Located

Cameron

Summary

We are seeking an Associate Production Engineer to join our team in Cameron, LA with travel as needed.

This role will report to the Manager of Production Engineering and will be responsible for developing and progressing the Ready for Operations (RFO) schedule to transition the facility from EPC to the operations phase.

Post transition, the role will be responsible for closely working with key interface stakeholders to ensure that the safe and sustainable realization of facility production targets and other critical KPIs are met.

General Description Duties & Responsibilities

• Support the development and maintenance of:
  • a facility production forecasting model
  • mass and energy balance models
• Support the development and maintenance of tools:
  • to support production, environmental and compliance reporting
  • to monitor production performance summaries and Key Performance Indicators for each processing Train
  • for monitoring and ordering catalysts, chemicals and consumables needed to manage the facility
• Support the development and maintenance of loss accounting summaries to allow for identification and categorization of facility production losses
• Support the development of production engineering standards and procedures
• Coordinate with maintenance, gas supply, commercial operations and finance on facility operations and reporting
• Provide day to day troubleshooting support to operations
• Set CP2 Facility LNG Trains Production daily targets, define operating limits and engage with Operations, Maintenance and Engineering to develop the Production Plan for the day.
• Build and maintain Real time, online, surveillance and monitoring models to optimize the Availability and Performance of the CP2 Facility LNG Liquefaction Trains
• Perform Analysis to detect deviations from Live Operating Envelope Limits and identify the actions required to safely and reliably maximize LNG rundown.
• Identify short-, medium- and long-term Availability and Reliability improvement initiatives to maximize LNG rundown using insights from Real time System and Physics-based/data-driven models.
• Identify Production risks that could impact Availability and Reliability and develop mitigation plans to address them
• Provide input to the weekly and monthly Production reviews and follow up on any actions required to improve the performance of the CP Facility LNG Trains
• Identify the CP2 Facility LNG Trains production loss events and engage with the relevant stakeholders (including but not limited to Engineering, Maintenance, Operations) to review, validate, report and manage production losses in a timely manner to maximize Availability and Reliability
• Lead or be part of EIRs (Engineering Investigation Requests) and MoCs (Management of Change) required to improve the CP Facility LNG Trains performance.
• Lead or be part of the CP2 Facility LNG Trains Production loss RCAs when required.
• Gather the required assumptions on LNG Trains performance and provide timely input to the Forecast and Annual Delivery Plan process.
• Support the Long-Term Service Agreement (LTSA) process and provide all the required input and analysis as required
• Support the development of Integrated Production Excellence standards and procedures.
• Capture Lessons Learned from the CP2 Facility and provide input to other Venture Global LNG projects / sites as required

Required Experience

• One (1) to four (4) years' experience working as an Engineer in process
• Engineering graduates with a demonstrable passion to pursue a career in this discipline would also be considered.
• Oil and Gas experience is required, with preference in LNG applications, however, petrochemical, NGL, cryogenic natural gas processing, or other hydrocarbon processing experience may be acceptable

Preferred Experinece

• Process plant environment
• Preference in LNG applications

Required Education

• Bachelor's degree in Process/Chemical or Petroleum Engineering.

Venture Global LNG is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status or any other basis covered by appropriate law.