Expert Gas Facility Engineer- Flexible Location

Position Summary

This role oversees all engineering activities for compressor station and transmission station assets in the Needles, CA area, including maintenance and overhauls of reciprocating compressors and generators, technical support, 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 strong mechanical background and a self-directed, proactive approach.

Position duties

• Safety: 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.
• Maintenance & Operations Engineering Support: This role 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.
• Project Support: 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.
• Code Compliance: 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

Qualifications

• BS Engineering or equivalent experience
• Seven (7) years of relevant experience
• Oil or Gas Transmission experience, design, maintenance, construction and/or operations
• Natural Gas Compressor Station Experience
• Reciprocating & Centrifugal Compressor and Generator Experience
• Professional Engineer (PE) license
• MS Engineering
• Able to work independently with guidance on only the most complex projects
• Advanced written and verbal communication and presentation skills
• Able to organize and present information and recommendations to various leaders
• Expert Knowledge of applicable engineering principles, codes, regulations, policies and procedures related to the industry and PG&E
• Creativity and innovation skills
• Ability to translate strategy into specific plans and action