Senior Staff Engineer, Production

Venture Global LNG•Plaquemines Parish, LA, LA

6d•Onsite

About The Position

Venture Global LNG is seeking a Senior Staff Engineer, Production to join their Integrated Production Excellence team. This role is responsible for optimizing the Availability and Performance of the Plaquemines Facility LNG Liquefaction Trains and supporting overall PQ Facility Production System Optimization efforts. Travel to Venture Global LNG Louisiana sites will be required. The position reports to the Senior Director, Production Engineering.

Requirements

Minimum 10 - 15 years’ experience working in a senior engineering capacity in an industrial setting in engineering or operations
Minimum 5-10 years’ experience working as a Production Engineer with a demonstrated track record of Production performance improvement.
Oil and Gas experience is required, with preference in LNG applications, however, petrochemical, NGL, cryogenic natural gas processing, or other hydrocarbon processing experience will be considered.
Working knowledge of key equipment involved in LNG liquefaction facilities.
Experience in all aspects of process engineering from conceptual design, economics, detailed engineering, and plant startup and troubleshooting.
Bachelor's degree in Chemical/Process Engineering

Nice To Haves

Commissioning, start-up and performance testing at project sites is a plus.

Responsibilities

Set PQ Facility LNG Trains Production daily targets, define operating limits and engage with Operations, Maintenance and Engineering to develop the Production Plan for the day.
Build and maintain Real time, online, surveillance and monitoring models to optimize the Availability and Performance of the PQ Facility LNG Liquefaction Trains.
Perform Analysis to detect deviations from Live Operating Envelope Limits and identify the actions required to safely and reliably maximize LNG rundown.
Identify short-, medium- and long-term Availability and Reliability improvement initiatives to maximize LNG rundown using insights from Real time System and Physics-based/data-driven models.
Identify Production risks that could impact Availability and Reliability and develop mitigation plans to address them.
Provide input to the weekly and monthly Production reviews and follow up on any actions required to improve the performance of the PQ Facility LNG Trains.
Identify the PQ Facility LNG Trains production loss events and engage with the relevant stakeholders (including but not limited to Engineering, Maintenance, Operations) to review, validate, report and manage production losses in a timely manner to maximize Availability and Reliability.
Lead or be part of EIRs (Engineering Investigation Requests) and MoCs (Management of Change) required to improve the PQ Facility LNG Trains performance.
Lead or be part of the PQ Facility LNG Trains Production loss RCAs when required.
Gather the required assumptions on LNG Trains performance and provide timely input to the Forecast and Annual Delivery Plan process.
Support the Long-Term Service Agreement (LTSA) process and provide all the required input and analysis as required.
Support the development of Integrated Production Excellence standards and procedures.
Capture Lessons Learned from the PQ Facility and provide input to other Venture Global LNG projects / sites as required.