Remote Continuous Improvement Engineer – RNG Operations

Socket.dev; United States; Remote; USD 130,000 - 145,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

Life Insurance

Short & Long Term Disability

401(k) plus Matching Contributions

Tuition Assistance

Referral Bonus

Generous Paid Time Off

Ten Paid Holidays

Job summary

OPAL Fuels is seeking a Continuous Improvement Engineer to lead fleet performance improvements across the biogas operations. The role focuses on creating scorecards, analytics, and corrective actions to reduce losses, optimize costs, and increase reliability.

You will collaborate with Operations, Reliability, and Process Engineering teams to drive sustainable excellence while primarily working from home with periodic site visits.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering from an accredited program.
• Minimum 5 years of demonstrated process improvement in RNG, oil and gas, chemical, petrochemical, or comparable industrial experience.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving capability.
• Ability to analyze operational and financial performance trends.
• Ability to identify operational improvement opportunities through data analysis.
• Demonstrated ability to utilize AI tools to support operational improvement.
• Effective communication and cross-functional coordination capability.
• Ability to travel 50% based on fleet demands.
• Home-based position preferred near an operating asset.
• Support all RNG and renewable power facilities across the fleet.

Responsibilities

• Lead fleet continuous improvement and operational excellence initiatives.
• Develop operational scorecards, KPIs, dashboards, and performance reporting.
• Analyze operational losses and drive corrective improvement actions.
• Measure asset capability and identify performance improvement opportunities.
• Identify gaps between actual performance and production plans.
• Lead constraint management, debottlenecking, and operational optimization efforts.
• Develop and maintain fleet performance and morning reporting systems.
• Monitor energy consumption and variable operating cost performance.
• Benchmark facilities and standardize best operating practices fleet-wide.
• Utilize analytics, AI tools, and economic modeling capabilities.
• Five core capabilities to assist the Operational Excellence Campaign: Asset Reliability, Mechanical Integrity, Unplanned Event Reduction, Risk Management, Reliability Systems

Skills

Analytical skills

Problem solving

AI tools

Communication

Cross-functional collaboration

Travel 50%

Education

Bachelor’s degree in engineering

Job description

OPAL Fuels is seeking a Continuous Improvement Engineer to lead fleet performance improvements across the biogas operations. The role focuses on creating scorecards, analytics, and corrective actions to reduce losses, optimize costs, and increase reliability.

You will collaborate with Operations, Reliability, and Process Engineering teams to drive sustainable excellence while primarily working from home with periodic site visits.