Job Title: Compression Engineer – Midstream Interstate Natural Gas
The Engineering Design group seeks a Compression Engineer to support natural gas project execution and operations. This role provides engineering expertise in gas compression, working with various departments to maintain and improve infrastructure reliability, efficiency, and compliance.
Required Skills:
- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering or equivalent
- 5+ years of project management, monitoring, completing studies and reviews, assessing risk / benefit of new technology, generating recommendations for and developing projects, etc. as required to achieve the task.
- Specify natural gas compression equipment based on provided operating conditions to optimize performance efficiencies, flexibility to changes in operating conditions, long-term reliability, ease of maintenance, while minimizing 20 year life cycle costs
- Develop Request for Proposal (RFP) bid documents, conduct bid process, prepare detailed bid analysis based on 20 year life cycle costs, recommend successful contractor.
- Generate cost estimates, secure project funding, accurately track and forecast project expenses, submit project closure documentation.
Position Description:
Provide engineering support in all areas of gas compression and related equipment. The individual will be an engineering resource to the midstream pipeline departments in support of compression activities and must possess the ability to associate with a wide variety of people (personalities, skill and education levels, etc.) with tact, courtesy and professionalism.
The individual must possess project management skills used in the development of projects including project scope, schedule, budget forecasting, cost tracking/analysis, and risk identification/mitigation and be capable of communicating this information using well-developed written and verbal skills.
- Develop Request for Proposal (RFP) bid documents, conduct bid process, prepare detailed bid analysis based on 20 year life cycle costs, recommend successful contractor.
- Generate cost estimates, secure project funding, accurately track and forecast project expenses, submit project closure documentation.
- Review and manage projects in terms of economics, environmental regulations, OSHA Safety, Kinder Morgan Engineering Standards, Construction Standards, and Operating and Maintenance Procedures.
- Develop project scope documents, schedules, contractor bid documents, manage the bid process including job showing, recommend contractor, and manage contractor activities.
- Develop and/or update KM Equipment Specifications and Engineering Standards.
- Apply the company's design and operating philosophy to meet corporate goals for safety, regulatory compliance, efficiency, and profitability.
- Travel estimated from 20 to 40% of the time to field sites and offices with occasional overnight stays.
- Read and interpret mechanical, electrical, control, and instrumentation drawings.