Associate Engineer, Production

Venture Global LNG•CP2, TX

20d

About The Position

Venture Global LNG is seeking an Associate Production Engineer to join its team in Cameron, Louisiana, with travel as needed. The role reports to the Manager of Production Engineering and is responsible for developing and progressing the Ready for Operations (RFO) schedule to transition the facility from EPC to operations. After the transition, the engineer will work closely with key interface stakeholders to support safe and sustainable achievement of facility production targets and other critical KPIs. The position supports production forecasting and mass and energy balance models, production and compliance reporting, performance monitoring, consumables management, and production-loss accounting. It also provides day-to-day troubleshooting support and coordinates with operations, maintenance, gas supply, commercial operations, and finance. The engineer will set daily production targets and operating limits for the CP2 Facility LNG Trains, develop daily production plans with Operations, Maintenance, and Engineering, and maintain real-time surveillance and monitoring models to optimize availability and performance. The role also identifies operating deviations, production risks, improvement initiatives, and production losses; contributes to reviews, investigations, change management, root-cause analyses, forecasting, annual delivery planning, and the Long-Term Service Agreement process; and shares lessons learned across Venture Global LNG projects and sites.

Requirements

One to four years of experience working as an engineer in process engineering; engineering graduates with a demonstrable passion to pursue a career in this discipline may also be considered.
Oil and gas experience is required. Experience in LNG applications is preferred; petrochemical, NGL, cryogenic natural gas processing, or other hydrocarbon processing experience may be acceptable.
Bachelor’s degree in Process, Chemical, or Petroleum Engineering.

Nice To Haves

Experience in a process plant environment.
Experience in LNG applications.

Responsibilities

Develop and progress the Ready for Operations (RFO) schedule for the transition from EPC to facility operations.
Support development and maintenance of a facility production forecasting model and mass and energy balance models.
Support tools for production, environmental, and compliance reporting; production performance summaries and KPIs for each processing train; and monitoring and ordering catalysts, chemicals, and consumables.
Support development and maintenance of production-loss accounting summaries to identify and categorize facility production losses.
Support development of production engineering standards and procedures.
Coordinate facility operations and reporting with maintenance, gas supply, commercial operations, and finance.
Provide day-to-day troubleshooting support to Operations.
Set daily production targets and operating limits for the CP2 Facility LNG Trains and work with Operations, Maintenance, and Engineering to develop the daily Production Plan.
Build and maintain real-time online surveillance and monitoring models to optimize availability and performance of the CP2 Facility LNG Trains.
Analyze deviations from live operating envelope limits and identify actions to safely and reliably maximize LNG rundown.
Identify short-, medium-, and long-term availability and reliability improvement initiatives using insights from real-time system and physics-based or data-driven models.
Identify production risks that could affect availability and reliability and develop mitigation plans.
Provide input to weekly and monthly production reviews and follow up on actions to improve train performance.
Identify production-loss events and engage relevant stakeholders to review, validate, report, and manage losses in a timely manner.
Lead or participate in Engineering Investigation Requests (EIRs) and Management of Change (MoC) activities to improve train performance.
Lead or participate in production-loss root-cause analyses when required.
Gather LNG train performance assumptions and provide timely input to the Forecast and Annual Delivery Plan process.
Support the Long-Term Service Agreement (LTSA) process with required input and analysis.
Support development of Integrated Production Excellence standards and procedures.
Capture lessons learned from the CP2 Facility and provide input to other Venture Global LNG projects and sites as required.