Senior Pipeline Hydraulics Engineer

Keyera Career Opportunity Why Keyera?

It’s our purpose-driven culture, benefits, and people. From flexible, customizable benefits and an employer-funded pension plan to our Keyera Connects social investment program and paid employee volunteer days, we’re focused on empowering our people and communities.

Flexible Benefits to meet your individual and family needs, including

• $3,500 plus 4.5% of base salary each year to customize your benefits and investments
• Saving plan options, including an Employee Share Purchase Plan, RRSP, and TFSA
• Defined Contribution Pension Plan funded by Keyera up to 10% of base salary
• Wellness Personal Spending Account of $750 per year to cover wellness expenses

Paid vacation and eight flex days each year

• Two paid volunteer days each year to support the causes that are most important to you
• Employee Family Assistance Program with a variety of support resources from professional counselling to financial planning support and more.

• Keyera’s Northern Allowance is a tiered incentive program based on years of service, currently offered to employees working at the following locations:
  Grande Prairie Office, Wapiti, Simonette, Gold Creek, South Cheecham, and Fox Creek Terminal. This information reflects the current state of the program and may be subject to change over time.

Please note that compensation and benefits may be different based on the work location, position, and a candidate's experience and qualifications.

Permanent

The successful candidate will be based in either Calgary or Edmonton and is an integral part of the Keyera Technical Services Group, by supporting existing facilities, integrating with the commercial groups to develop new projects, and being the process lead on projects in the execution phase. The Pipeline Hydraulics Engineer is critical to Keyera as it has a direct impact on the commercial viability, safety, operability, and efficiency of current facilities, and future projects.

The individual will be part of a multi-disciplined team and will be responsible for effectively working with a variety of disciplines, as well as external contractors.

• Work as a Pipeline Hydraulics Engineer to build and maintain all aspects of steady state and transient models for Keyera Pipeline networks
• Utilize pipeline and facility hydraulic models to perform steady state and transient analysis, and present interpretation of results
• Prepare process hydraulics reports and supporting calculation packages to document results and recommendations
• Train team members in the use and best practices of steady state and transient software packages
• Utilize operational data to forecast risks and assess their impact on pipeline systems
• Oversee and ensure the effective implementation of surge mitigation strategies and over pressure protection systems based on transient analysis
• Ensure compliance with company PPMP and quality control procedures
• Propose and develop additional requirements as appropriate to improve workflow and product accuracy
• Support new project development as well as supporting MOC’s of existing equipment/facilities
• Identify and recommend improvements to pipeline operating strategies to optimize hydraulic control and capacity
• Evaluate capacity impacts resulting from integrity evaluations on existing pipeline systems
• Oversee the design of pressure control and over pressure protection systems on pipeline systems
• Provide support to day-to-day troubleshooting of operational process issues
• Participation in HAZOPs, PHAs, design reviews, safety incident investigations.
• Ability to build key relationships with project stakeholders ie. operations, business development, regulatory, and the project team

• Engineering Degree in Mechanical, Process / Chemical, or sufficient specialization in the relevant area
• Professional Engineer in good standing with APEGA
• 10+ years of relevant experience in pipelines/facilities in an operations and/or Engineering role
• Experience in an Operations-focused role with a midstream or pipeline operating company is a strong asset
• A minimum of 5 years of relevant industry experience in…