Engineer, Senior Facility Integrity

Primary Location

USA-Texas-Houston

About the Role

The Senior Facility Integrity Engineer will lead facility integrity efforts and programs for assigned facilities. This includes determining evaluation methods for assigned facility assets, identifying preventive and mitigative measures to reduce impact or eliminate facility releases, performing high consequence area (HCA) impact analysis, risk analysis, data gathering and quality control of facility integrity data, developing and maintaining standards, procedures and guidelines to support the Integrity Management Program for all facilities, evaluating and providing recommendations to the Company on new technologies for assessment and/or repair methods, and staying current with regulations, industry standards, integrity assessment methods, repair methods, and other applicable technologies.

Responsibilities

• Determine the Evaluation Method for assigned facility assets.
• Identify preventive and mitigative measures to reduce impact or eliminate facility releases.
• Provide technical support for in-service facility releases should they occur.
• Perform High Consequence Area (HCA) impact analysis for facility assets.
• Perform Risk Analysis for facility assets.
• Develop and maintain standards, procedures and guidelines to support the Integrity Management Program for all facilities.
• Evaluate and provide recommendations to the Company on new technologies for assessment and/or repair methods.
• Stay current with regulations, industry standards, integrity assessment methods, repair methods, and other applicable technologies.

Requirements

• A minimum of a bachelor’s degree in engineering is required.
• A minimum of 5 years of experience in oil and gas facility engineering, or equivalent, is required.
• Technical knowledge about various integrity assessment methods is required.
• Technical knowledge about defect evaluation and appropriate repairs is required.
• Technical knowledge about NDE technologies and their application is required.
• Technical knowledge for interpreting facility drawings, including plot plans, piping and instrument diagrams, schematics, and isometrics is required.
• Working knowledge of the various Federal and State regulations including Integrity Management regulations is required.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Word and Excel is required.
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and in writing, is required.
• Ability to work effectively in a multi-discipline team with both office-based and field-based staff is required.
• Willingness and ability to travel up to 10% of the time is required.
• Technical knowledge in Risk Assessment and Management is preferred.
• Experience in midstream facility design, operations, or integrity assessment is preferred.
• API, AMPP (NACE), ASNT certification is preferred.
• Working knowledge of data management methods is preferred, including use of MS Access and SQL Server databases.
• Working knowledge of geospatial analysis is preferred, including use of ArcGIS Pro or QGIS and PostgreSQL/PostGIS, or similar tools.