Associate Production Engineer

Venture Global LNG (“Venture Global”) is a long-term, low-cost provider of American-produced liquefied natural gas. The company’s two Louisiana-based export projects service the global demand for North American natural gas and support the long-term development of clean and reliable North American energy supplies. Using reliable, proven technology in an innovative plant design configuration, Venture Global’s modular, mid-scale plant design will replace traditional designs as it allows for the same efficiency and operational reliability at significantly lower capital cost.

We are seeking an Associate Production Engineer to join our team in Arlington VA with travel to our LNG facilities in Louisiana.

This role will initially report to the VP, Integrated Production Excellence and will be responsible for developing and progressing the Ready for Operations (RFO) schedule to transition the facility from EPC to the operations phase.

Post transition, the role will be responsible for closely working with key interface stakeholders to ensure that the safe and sustainable realization of facility production targets and other critical KPI’s are met. 

Responsibilities:

• Support the development and maintenance of:
  • a facility production forecasting model
  • mass and energy balance models

• Support the development and maintenance of tools:
  • to support production, environmental and compliance reporting
  • to monitor production performance summaries and Key Performance Indicators for each processing Train
  • for monitoring and ordering catalysts, chemicals and consumables needed to manage the facility
• Support the development and maintenance of loss accounting summaries to allow for identification and categorization of facility production losses
• Support the development of production engineering standards and procedures
• Coordinate with maintenance, gas supply, commercial operations and finance on facility operations and reporting
• Provide day to day troubleshooting support to operations
• Set CP 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 CP 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 CP Facility LNG Trains
• Identify the CP 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 CP Facility LNG Trains performance.
• Lead or be part of the CP 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 CP Facility and provide input to other Venture Global LNG projects / sites as required

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Process/Chemical or Petroleum Engineering.
• One (1) to four (4) years’ experience working as an Engineer in a process plant environment would be a plus. 
• Engineering graduates with a demonstrable passion to pursue a career in this discipline would also be considered. 
• Oil and Gas experience is required, with preference in LNG applications, however, petrochemical, NGL, cryogenic natural gas processing, or other hydrocarbon processing experience may be acceptable.  

  Venture Global LNG is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status or any other basis covered by appropriate law.