Coverage Model: Standard business hours
Role Purpose
The Facilities Engineer evaluates facility performance of compression and separation pipelines to identify capacity constraints and optimization opportunities. This role supports a defined subset of design calculations, equipment evaluations, and debottlenecking studies as directed by senior engineers. Working closely with operations, the engineer analyzes real-time and historical data to recommend efficiency improvements, support capacity planning, and recommend facility modifications. The role does not perform field work; it provides remote analytical support and engineering documentation enabling field teams to optimize facility operations.
Supervision & Reporting Structure
Senior Facilities Engineers provide technical guidance, assign studies, review deliverables, manage workload and reporting, but do not approve engineering deliverables.
Core Responsibilities
- System Analysis Optimization
- Production systems surveillance assessing for anomalies and assisting in building automatic detection capability.
- Evaluate compression and separation systems performance, efficiency, and capacity utilization.
- Analyze separation and treating facility performance.
- Identify capacity constraints limiting production throughput.
- Recommend operational adjustments and equipment modifications.
- Assess individual components (valves, PSVs, instrumentation) for performance and design selection.
- Perform RCFA to recommend design or operating improvements.
- Develop facility capacity models.
- Design Support
- Support minor facility modifications through engineering calculations.
- Evaluate vendor proposals and equipment specifications.
- Prepare engineering deliverables for Change Management platform packages.
- Review and validate engineering work from others.
- Documentation & Reporting
- Prepare facility performance reports and recommendations.
- Maintain facility capacity databases and models.
- Document engineering analyses with clear assumptions.
- Support capital planning with equipment condition assessments.
- Contribute to lessons learned documentation.
Systems & Tools
The Facilities Engineer must demonstrate proficiency in these platforms.
- PI Vision - SCADA, real-time data, facility performance monitoring, trend analysis.
- Microsoft Excel - Analysis, engineering calculations, capacity models, data analysis.
- Claude AI - Analysis, data analysis systems and tool development.
Analysis Capabilities
- Compressor performance mapping.
- Separator and treater capacity analysis.
- Pipeline hydraulics and pressure drop.
- Vibration analysis interpretation.
- Facility debottlenecking methodology.
- Control valve sizing and selection.
Qualifications
Required
- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Chemical, or Petroleum Engineering.
- Minimum 4 years in facilities engineering for oil & gas.
- Experience with compression and separation system analysis.
- Proficiency with process simulation (ProMax, HYSYS, or equivalent).
- Ability to perform equipment sizing and evaluation calculations.
- Understanding of pipeline hydraulics.
- Reliable internet connection.
Preferred
- Unconventional shale production facilities experience.
- Compressor vibration analysis background.
- ProMax/HYSYS advanced modeling.
- Familiarity with condition monitoring systems.
- Change Management platform process experience.
- Managed services engineering background.
Communication Requirements
Stakeholder, channel, nature: Compression vendors, teams, email, performance support.
Key Performance Indicators
Example performance measures for service delivery and quality.