Engineer/ Senior Engineer, Production

Cheniere Energy • Gregory, TX

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About The Position

The Engineer/Senior Production Engineer reports to the Engineering Superintendent, Production. The role works with Production/Operations, Maintenance, Commercial Operations, Gas Supply, Pipeline Gas Scheduling, Process Services, and Engineering Services to support safe and sustainable facility production targets and key performance indicators. Responsibilities include maintaining production capacity curves, plant optimization and monitoring tools, loss accounting, departmental KPIs and production reporting, and coordinating the supply of catalysts and chemicals needed to operate the facility.

The role supports forecasting and daily production strategy, maintains energy balance tools and models, helps quantify facility emissions, and prepares production reports and performance summaries. It provides technical support to plant personnel, assists with troubleshooting and process simulations, and works with other engineering teams to improve production and resolve process issues. The position also participates in safety reviews, incident investigations, audits, procedure development, and major project coordination. It requires a strong safety focus and maintenance of a Transportation Worker Identification Credential (TWIC) in good standing.

The job is performed in an industrial plant environment, with occasional work from home, after normal work hours, or on weekends, and limited travel as business conditions dictate. The role involves indoor and outdoor work, exposure to year-round weather, an ocean environment and noise, and substantial outdoor activity. Physical requirements include standing, walking, sitting, climbing stairs and ladders, working at height, boarding ships via gangway, climbing tanks and vertical ladders, and lifting or moving objects weighing up to 50 pounds. Employees must pass regularly scheduled physical examinations and obtain company-sponsored basic first aid, CPR, and LNG firefighting certifications.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Mechanical, Process, Chemical, or Petroleum Engineering.
• For Engineer, Production: at least 3 years of demonstrable experience as a Production Engineer or Process Engineer at an LNG liquefaction facility, or equivalent applicable experience, with a solid understanding of feed gas pretreatment, NGL/condensate management, and storage and loading.
• For Senior Engineer, Production: at least 5 years of demonstrable experience as a Production Engineer, Process Engineer, or in Operations at an LNG liquefaction facility, or equivalent applicable experience, with a solid understanding of feed gas pretreatment, NGL/condensate management, and storage and loading.
• Understanding of feed gas allocation and LNG/NGL production, storage, and shipping, including health, safety, government regulations, codes, and standards.
• Understanding of fluid flow, heat transfer, thermodynamics, and hydrocarbon process chemistry as applied to operating process units.
• Familiarity with hydrocarbon process hazards and methods for maintaining process facility safety.
• Knowledge of LNG process engineering and competence using process simulation software.
• Strong analytical, leadership, and administrative abilities, with a strong sensitivity to safety in a hazardous environment.
• Exceptional written, verbal, interpersonal, problem-solving, and analytical skills; ability to communicate effectively across organizational levels and with people from different disciplines, industries, and government agencies.
• Ability to work with a culturally diverse technical workforce and establish mutually respectful relationships with management, peers, and facility-level employees.
• Strong organization and planning skills, ability to manage multiple activities and programs accurately and meet deadlines.
• Ability to create and deliver industry-specific presentations.
• Computer proficiency, including Microsoft Word, Excel, Access, Project, and PowerPoint.
• Competence with specialized software including PI, Process Book, Sigmafine, HYSYS, Pro-Treat, HTRI, and Seeq.
• Thorough understanding and interpretation of P&IDs, heat and material balances (HMB), complex loops, and control logic.
• Maintain a TWIC card in good standing.
• Able to meet the role's stated physical requirements, including climbing, working at height, boarding a ship via gangway, and lifting or moving objects up to 50 pounds.
• Pass regularly scheduled physical examinations mandated by regulatory authorities and obtain required company-sponsored training certifications in basic first aid, CPR, and LNG firefighting.

Nice To Haves

• Professional Engineer (PE) license.
• Other process-related experience in petrochemical, NGL, cryogenic natural gas processing, or other hydrocarbon processing.

Responsibilities

• Review and validate forecasting and scheduling tools, identify limitations or deficiencies that could affect production, and advise Production Management.
• Lead daily strategy planning with Production Management and work to overcome limitations and deficiencies to meet production targets.
• Serve as a technical resource to the turnaround planning organization.
• Support monitoring and ordering catalysts, refrigerants, and chemicals needed to manage the facility.
• Provide feed gas estimates, monitor pipeline operations, and manage LNG inventories.
• Maintain energy balance tools and models and perform daily energy balances.
• Support facility emissions quantification for environmental and compliance reporting.
• Assist in developing, maintaining, and using tools to calculate and track flared quantities for environmental regulatory compliance.
• Assist in developing, maintaining, and using environmental monitoring tools for gas-turbine water injection rates; validate deviations and help troubleshoot to prevent or minimize non-compliant operations.
• Maintain daily production status reports covering feed gas measurement and allocation, power consumption, LNG/NGL production, emissions and waste measurements, and efficiency monitoring.
• Develop, measure, and generate reports against production KPIs.
• Assist with developing and maintaining loss accounting summaries to identify and categorize facility production losses.
• Support production performance summaries for process units, covering production, capacity utilization, reliability, efficiency, production losses, and energy utilization.
• Assist in developing and using scheduling tools to monitor process efficiency and recommend productivity improvements.
• Provide daily troubleshooting support to plant Production personnel.
• Assist with developing computer process simulations for daily plant operations as needed.
• Work with Reliability, Engineering, and Process Services engineers to define problems for further study, design, and testing to improve production or resolve process issues.
• Understand and use the technical Management of Change process in support of facility changes.
• Participate in Pre-Startup Safety Reviews, Process Hazard Analyses, regulatory agency audits, and incident investigations.
• Support procedure development and training related to capital projects, temporary or new operating modes, and compliance.
• Reinforce safety and environmental awareness through job observations and interaction with plant personnel.
• Work with Engineering and Construction to ensure Operations and Maintenance interests are represented on major projects.
• Manage components of the department budget.
• Train and develop Production Engineering staff.
• Maintain a Transportation Worker Identification Credential (TWIC) card in good standing.

Benefits

• Annual stock-grant program.
• Competitive compensation and benefits offerings.
• Wellness incentives.
• Performance incentives that reward results.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level