Staff Engineer, Production
About The Position
Venture Global LNG is a long-term, low-cost provider of American-produced liquefied natural gas, with two Louisiana-based export projects. The company utilizes reliable, proven technology in an innovative, modular, mid-scale plant design for efficiency and operational reliability at lower capital cost. This role is for a Staff Production Engineer to join the Production Excellence team in the Arlington, VA office. The position reports to the Principal Production Engineer, Production Excellence, and focuses on supporting the safe, reliable, and efficient operation of LNG liquefaction facilities. A critical aspect of the role is driving the successful adoption of newly developed engineering systems and digital tools, bridging the gap between technical development teams and end users to ensure smooth implementation and integration into daily engineering workflows. The role combines deep production engineering knowledge with digital tools for real-time plant performance optimization and monitoring, ensuring program compliance and safe, reliable production volumes. The ideal candidate will have experience in LNG or hydrocarbon processing, a strong grasp of process fundamentals, and a passion for using data to improve operations in a fast-paced environment. The successful candidate will collaborate with operations, engineering, business intelligence, data engineering, and machine learning specialists in IT to enhance performance and extract insights from production systems. This may also involve process modeling and simulation for performance understanding, production optimization, and supporting real-time and long-term operational decisions.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in chemical or mechanical engineering with demonstrable success improving LNG plant operations using data, analytics, or automation
- 5-10 years of experience in change management, technology adoption, digital transformation, or similar roles
- Develop and execute adoption strategies, including communication plans, training approaches, and user engagement activities
- Working knowledge of production systems, control room operations, and key process equipment (e.g., heat exchangers, compressors, refrigeration systems)
- Familiarity with data and reporting tools such as Excel, Power BI, process modeling tools such as Unisim or HYSYS
- High level of energy and motivation to excel within the organization
- Goes above and beyond and takes initiative
- Ability to incorporate feedback, learn, and grow
- Comfortable managing multiple priorities and adapting to evolving operational needs in a fast-paced environment
- Strong negotiation skills
- Exceptional attention to detail
- Excellent time management and organizational skills
- Strong leadership qualities
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Strong decision making/problem solving skills with an ability to communicate complex issues to a non-technical audience
Nice To Haves
- Experience working alongside BI, data engineering, or IT teams on analytics or digitalization projects
- Experience developing training content and facilitating workshops or system demonstrations
- Ability to analyze adoption data and translate insights into actionable improvements
Responsibilities
- Help develop tools and systems that track and improve LNG production performance, including dashboards, automated reports, as well as sophisticated AI and physics-based systems
- Develop and execute adoption strategies, including communication plans, training approaches, and user engagement activities
- Coordinate multi-discipline reviews to evaluate potential changes to provide final recommendation for execution of the change
- Translate operating data into actionable insights that improve plant reliability, availability, and throughput
- Share learnings across teams and contribute to standardizing best practices across facilities
- Assist in evaluating the impact of process changes, debottlenecking studies and efficiency improvements
- Partner with engineering, IT, product, and business stakeholders to assess change impacts and adoption risks
- Develop and maintain relationships with stakeholders
- Identify opportunities to automate manual tracking and reporting processes, improving accuracy and timeliness of information
- Travel to all our Louisiana LNG Facilities as needed
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
