Associate Gas Facility Engineer
About The Position
This position provides engineering support and asset management for gas transmission stations throughout the North Bay Area, including Los Medanos underground natural gas storage facility. Typical work includes maintenance and overhauls of reciprocating compressors and engines, technical support for maintenance personnel, engineering design and reviews, and lifecycle asset management. The position supports projects from planning through commissioning, ensures safe and reliable operations, and contributes to gas safety and asset integrity. It requires a mechanical background and a self-directed, proactive approach. The position headquarters will be at Los Medanos Compressor Station, near Concord, CA. It is preferred to have the applicant live near the area to be available for maintenance support. Travel to other facilities in the North Bay area will be required approximately 10% of the time. This position is a DOT (Department of Transportation) covered classification and is subject to random drug and/or alcohol screening.
Requirements
- BS Engineering or equivalent work experience
Nice To Haves
- 1 year of Oil or Gas Transmission experience, design, maintenance, construction and/or operations
- Natural Gas Compressor Station Experience
- Reciprocating & Centrifugal Compressor and Generator Experience
- EIT-Engineer in Training certification
- Ability to excel independently
- Basic written and verbal communication skills
- Has a basic understanding of the asset functions including threats and risks for their workstream
- Ability to troubleshoot, evaluate and report on outcomes with some guidance from others
- Ability to excel with limited guidance
Responsibilities
- Be an advocate for safety and lead by example. Incorporate safety into designs, construction and M&O activities. Ensure that safe practices and procedures are communicated, incorporated and followed in all activities.
- Serves as the asset owner for gas transmission facilities, providing guidance, mentoring, and technical support to field personnel and engineers. This includes improving maintenance practices, assessing equipment condition, ensuring safety and compliance and/or overseeing engineering studies needed to maintain or enhance safety and reliability.
- Assist and collaborate with the field personnel to investigate, diagnose, troubleshoot, and resolve equipment or system problems related to performance, operating and/or safety problems and recommend repairs.
- Perform inspection/investigation/failure analysis, calculations, engineering design and/or review of repairs or modification, recommend equipment that is not replacement in kind, recommend tests or engineering studies and provide engineering for small projects.
- Support equipment and facility outages, including outage planning, outage scope definition and support during the outages, such as unit overhauls, inspections, and commissioning.
- Prepare long-range forecasts for expense work and capital investments.
- Work with field personnel to identify highest priority work, develop budgetary estimates, and project scopes for budget submittals.
- Work closely with project managers and project engineers to ensure that the facilities will meet appropriate requirements.
- Provide engineering review and input on conceptual designs, design reviews, calculations, and engineering and construction documents.
- Interface with contractors, engineering, and field personnel to facilitate resolving technical issues.
- Lead PG&E effort during start-up and commissioning.
- Support M&O field personnel to achieve full compliance with pipeline safety codes and regulations.
- Review designs and provide technical guidance for code interpretation and compliance.
- Implement department code compliance initiatives that require engineering support.
- Solve complex problems by developing and utilizing new and innovative engineering design and technical solutions.
- Lead teams from multiple organizations and/or vendors for system, programmatic or complex repairs, investigations or other efforts.
- Expand knowledge in other areas of specialty or discipline.
- Evaluate methodologies, best practices, tools, processes, procedures and technology assessing potential fit, benefits, and impacts for assigned workstreams.
- Present engineering research, findings, solutions and recommendations to Leadership.
- Applies knowledge of concepts, principles, and practices in a specific discipline, field or area of expertise to resolve complex problems.
- Completes assignments of broad scope and complexity with few precedents or standards and assignments that require integration of information from a variety of sources.
- Takes ownership of problems and their solutions.
- Performs basic engineering work using established engineering tools, processes and practices to complete work assignments.
- Partners with more experienced engineers to develop knowledge.
- Assists with more complex projects.
- Leads small teams to address asset issues.
- Receives priorities and directions with regard to work performed from supervisor or manager.
- Reviews work performed with supervisor periodically.
- Completes well defined tasks independently.
- Has basic knowledge of applicable principles, codes, regulations, polices, and procedures.
- Stand on-call for transmission pipeline or station incidents during off-hours.
Benefits
- discretionary incentive compensation programs
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
