Senior Engineer, Production

Venture Global LNG - Point Celeste, LA

Full-time - Mid Level

Point Celeste, LA

Oil and Gas Extraction

About the position

Venture Global LNG is seeking a Senior Production Engineer, Liquefaction to join our Integrated Production Excellence team. This position will be located in Point Celeste, LA. The role will be responsible for optimizing the Availability and Performance of the Plaquemines Parish (PQ) Facility LNG Liquefaction Trains and support the overall CP Facility Production System Optimization efforts.

Responsibilities

• Set PQ 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 PQ 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 PQ Facility LNG Trains.
• Identify the PQ 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 PQ Facility LNG Trains performance.
• Lead or be part of the PQ 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 PQ Facility and provide input to other Venture Global LNG projects / sites as required.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Process/Chemical Engineering required.
• Minimum 5 years' experience working as a Production Engineer with a demonstrated track record of Production performance improvement.
• Experience in pre-treatment required.
• Experience supporting commissioning activities.
• Oil and Gas experience is required, with strong preference in LNG, however, petrochemical, NGL, cryogenic natural gas processing, or other hydrocarbon processing experience may be acceptable.