Facilities Engineer - North Dakota

About the role

As a senior facility engineer your job will be to provide technical support to fellow engineers on the team and to operations for surface facilities within the Bakken. You will leverage your expertise in engineering and project management to provide operations support, project execution and surveillance for surface facilities while ensuring compliance with regulatory standards and business objectives. This role requires a blend of technical expertise, project management and stakeholder engagement. This position will be based in Williston, ND.

Responsibilities

• Ensure engineering controls are in place to enable safe facility operations and compliance with applicable permits and regulations.
• Identify causes for facility downtime/upsets and evaluate remediation.
• Conduct regular surveillance of facilities.
• Identify issues, assess root causes, and formulate plans to address root causes.
• Participate in or lead incident investigations.
• Identify causes of facility flaring/venting and evaluate remediation.
• Develop and maintain close working relationships with Operations stakeholders.
• Liaison with regulatory and compliance teams.
• Steward facilities additions and modifications.
• Document proposed changes and stakeholder engagement via Management of Change process.
• Evaluate and address risks associated with process changes (Risk Assessments, HAZOPs, FIMs workshop etc.).
• Maintain updated facility critical drawings and documents (P&IDs, C&Es etc).
• Manage project execution of facility upgrade projects.
• Identify opportunities to optimize facility operation, de-bottleneck, reduce OPEX.
• Develop and justify capital spend to support proposed facility additions and upgrades.
• Define project scope, budget, procurement plan, risk management and accountability of spend on projects.
• Execute project from FEED to Operations handover.
• Ensure facility process supports accurate and compliant allocations.
• Develop tools to track and report key facility metrics.
• Participate in HAZOPs, lead risk screenings/assessments, and identify risk mitigation opportunities.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Petroleum Engineering or related field.
• 3+ years [EL1] of experience in an Oil and Gas engineering role with a focus on facilities or upstream unconventional.
• Experience in the design, operation, and maintenance of common surface facilities systems.

Skills

• Experience with midstream pipeline and compressor operations and maintenance (preferred).
• Demonstrated experience in managing and executing projects.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving and decision-making skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to adapt to shifting priorities.
• Ability to understand/redline P&ID drawings.

Benefits

• Pension Plan: Enrollment is automatic and at no cost to you. The basic benefit is a monthly annuity to be paid to you in retirement for the rest of your life.
• Savings Plan: You can contribute between 6% and 20% of your pay and are encouraged to enroll right away. If you contribute at least 6% to your savings plan, the Company will contribute a 7% match.
• Workplace Flexibility: Programs such as “Flex your Day” providing ad-hoc flexibility around when and where you work, as well as longer-term programs such as leaves of absence and part-time work.
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans.
• Culture of Health: Programs and resources to support your wellbeing.
• Employee Health Advisory Program: Provides confidential professional counseling for you and your family, including tools and resources promoting mental health and resiliency at no additional cost to you.
• Disability Plan: Income replacement for when you cannot work due to illness or injury occurring on or off the job. Enrollment is automatic and at no cost to you.
• More information on our Company’s benefits can be found at www.exxonmobilfamily.com.