Essential Job Responsibilities: 

Leadership and Team Development 

• Lead, develop, and hold accountable the Alaska engineering team. 

• Set priorities, expectations, and goals to ensure safe, efficient, high-quality engineering work. 

• Provide regular feedback, performance support, mentoring, and development. 

• Promote safety, ownership, urgency, accountability, innovation, and engineering excellence. 

• Ensure responsive engineering support for Operations, Business Development, Project Management, Integrity, EH&S, Commercial, and Finance. 

Engineering Oversight and Technical Assurance 

• Serve as the primary technical authority for Alaska engineering decisions, risks, priorities, and tradeoffs. 

• Review and approve engineering designs, scopes, specifications, calculations, recommendations, and deliverables. 

• Ensure solutions are sound, fit-for-purpose, constructible, operable, maintainable, compliant, and commercially reasonable. 

• Support technical evaluations, root-cause analysis, reliability reviews, and optimization efforts. 

• Ensure proper use of standards, design reviews, MOC, hazard analysis, process safety, and technical assurance processes. 

Business Partnership and Strategic Leadership 

• Partner with Alaska leadership, Operations, and Business Development to align technical execution with business priorities. 

• Provide engineering input for business development, commercial evaluations, asset strategy, capital planning, and long-range development. 

• Apply business judgment to cost-benefit analysis, risk tradeoffs, capital efficiency, reliability, throughput, and asset value. 

• Develop practical, creative solutions that meet business needs without unnecessary complexity. 

• Translate technical issues into clear recommendations for leaders, field teams, commercial teams, regulators, and stakeholders. 

Operations, Field, and Reliability Support 

• Stay closely engaged with Operations to align engineering work with field realities and asset needs. 

• Build strong office-field coordination through communication, site presence, and shared accountability. 

• Support troubleshooting, equipment issues, reliability improvements, and urgent operational needs. 

• Ensure recommendations reflect safe operations, maintainability, commissioning readiness, field constraints, and operator input. 

• Support incident response and time-sensitive technical decisions as needed. 

Capital, Expense, and Project Support 

• Lead engineering support for capital, expense, maintenance, integrity, reliability, and business development projects. 

• Ensure scopes, estimates, schedules, equipment selections, deliverables, and execution plans are sound, cost-effective, and aligned with business objectives. 

• Support AFE development, approvals, cost tracking, forecasting, scope control, change management, and schedule management. 

• Manage internal and external engineering support for quality, safety, cost, schedule, responsiveness, and execution. 

Regulatory, Compliance, Integrity, and Risk Management 

• Ensure engineering work complies with regulations, permits, codes, standards, and internal procedures. 

• Support audits, inspections, agency inquiries, and regulatory compliance activities. 

• Coordinate with Integrity, EH&S, Operations, and Compliance to address asset integrity, process safety, pipeline safety, environmental, and operational risks. 

• Ensure timely closure of engineering action items from MOCs, PHAs, HAZOPs, investigations, audits, inspections, and regulatory commitments. 

Continuous Improvement 

• Identify common solutions, better tools, repeatable processes, and shared learnings across teams. 

• Promote practical innovation and continuous improvement. 

• Maintain technical knowledge through industry engagement, professional development, lessons learned, and emerging best practices. 

Other Job Responsibilities: 

• Adheres to the company’s values – integrity, ownership, urgency, alignment, and innovation. 

• Supervise personnel, including conducting performance evaluations, providing ongoing feedback, and supporting professional development. 

• Support salary administration, workforce planning, and succession planning efforts. 

• Represent the company professionally with employees, contractors, vendors, regulators, partners, customers, and other external stakeholders. 

• Maintain availability as required to support operational continuity, emergency response, and critical decision-making. 

• Maintain employee confidence and protect company assets, including proprietary and sensitive information, through appropriate confidentiality and discretion. 

• Perform other duties as assigned by management. 

Qualifications: 

Minimum Qualifications 

• 15+ years of relevant engineering experience in midstream, pipeline, LNG, oil and gas facilities, processing, or related industrial operations. 

• 3+ years of Engineering leadership experience, including supervision, mentoring, technical oversight, or management of technical teams. 

• Strong knowledge of midstream facilities and systems, including pipelines, compression, pump stations, pressure/rate control, tanks, LNG facilities, metering, controls/SCADA, storage, and loading systems. 

• Working knowledge of relevant codes, standards, and regulations, including ASME, API, DOT/PHMSA, PSM, NFPA, OSHA, and state/environmental requirements. 

• Experience with design, technical assurance, MOC, hazard analysis, root-cause analysis, incident investigations, reliability improvement, and optimization. 

• Experience supporting capital and expense projects, including scope, equipment selection, estimates, AFE support, cost tracking, schedules, construction, commissioning, and startup. 

• Ability to balance safety, compliance, technical quality, cost, schedule, operability, reliability, and commercial value. 

• Ability to constructively challenge, make sound decisions with incomplete information, and influence across functions. 

• Strong business acumen and understanding of how engineering decisions affect revenue, cost, capital efficiency, regulatory exposure, and asset value. 

• Willingness to operate as a hands-on working manager when needed. 

• Strong communication skills, including translating technical issues into clear recommendations. 

• Ability to manage multiple priorities, solve ambiguous problems, and drive work to completion. 

• Professional Engineering (PE) license preferred but not required. 

Education Requirements: 

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering from an accredited university is required. 

• Advanced technical degree, business education, or relevant professional certifications are preferred but not required.