Sr. Manager - Engineering

Engineering Management Opportunity

This Engineering Management role provides leadership, coaching, and direction to both field and office based engineers who support operations and manage maintenance capital budgets. The department is responsible to provide technical support for resolving day-to-day operational issues, optimize pipeline performance by evaluating pipeline hydraulics, DRA use (drag reducing agent), and pump & motor performance to assure reliable operations in order to meet throughput requirement. The department also actively engages in project planning and execution including hydrostatic testing, pipeline relocations, commissioning assets, and integrating newly constructed or acquired assets into operations. This leader is a mentor to engineers new to Energy Transfer and also serves as a point of contact for several stakeholders including the Control Center, ROW, Field Operations, Facility Planning, Senior Management, and more.

Essential duties and responsibilities include :

• Lead a team of engineers that prepares and reviews design and construction scopes of work as well as material specifications for small maintenance and capital projects including tanks, pumps, motors, meters, valves and piping.
• Manage and distribute workload among team members. Provide training, coaching and mentorship to new and existing team members.
• Provide leadership and direction to team in regards to identification of operational abnormalities in the field and working through to resolution.
• Communicate and coordinate directly with operations, assuring all project work is performed in a timely manner, with minimal disruption to product movements.
• Direct engineering support services through the application of engineering expertise, problem solving, and good working knowledge of related engineering fields to day-to-day operating problems and major projects to expand or improve the pipeline system.
• Day to day operational support for control center and field operations. Issues range from pipeline or pump performance, DRA management, operational set point determination / change, pipeline encroachment, replacement equipment specification, and regulatory audit support.
• During project execution, ensure coordination with key stakeholders including operations, scheduling, control center, other engineering disciplines, right-of-way, and contractors. As required, host meetings and provide leadership to resolve conflicts and sustain progress.
• Lead / participate in investigations and RCA reviews associated with abnormal operating events. Determine corrective action as necessary.
• Manage optimization efforts relative to power and DRA use on the pipeline system, and support operations in the budgeting process.
• Assure all safety procedures and policies are communicated and enforced with contractors.
• This position may be required to participate in all aspects of emergency response as directed.

Requirements : Education and / or experience, knowledge, skills & abilities : to perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential job duty satisfactorily. The requirements for this position are listed below :

Preferred qualifications :

Working conditions : the work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job :