Sr. Project Engineer - Process

What Lja Has To Offer

LJA is offering an exciting opportunity that will allow you to reach your full career potential. The structure of our organization is designed to amplify your capabilities while gaining the benefits of being an employee-owner. What truly sets this opportunity apart is the chance to collaborate every day with dedicated, skilled, and supportive leaders. Whether you are in the office, in the field, or behind the scenes, working at LJA gives you the chance to grow through hands-on experience and exposure to a broad range of clients and services.

LJA is offering an exciting opportunity that will allow you to reach your full career potential. The structure of our organization is designed to amplify your capabilities while gaining the benefits of being an employee-owner. What truly sets this opportunity apart is the chance to collaborate every day with dedicated, skilled, and supportive leaders. Whether you are in the office, in the field, or behind the scenes, working at LJA gives you the chance to grow through hands-on experience and exposure to a broad range of clients and services.

At LJA, our employee-owners take pride in their work and their workplace. We’re guided by leaders who foster a culture of respect, collaboration and a shared vision of success. Our difference is evident in the experiences and opportunities we provide:

• Employee-owned. Client-focused
• Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP)
• Consistently ranked as a Top Workplace
• Internal recruitment team, in-house training, and a marketing department specific to our industry
• We celebrate flexibility, allowing every team and office to lead with their proven approach
• Our culture champions continuous learning and personal growth
• We believe success comes through constant evolution and communication
• We are passionate about having fun and making money, all while creating impact

As a Sr. Project Engineer at LJA Energy
, you will support the design and execution of oil and gas midstream projects involving natural gas processing, compression, liquids handling, pipelines, terminals, metering facilities, and associated utility systems. This role requires a technically capable and accountable engineer who can balance technical requirements, project objectives, constructability, operability, safety, schedule, and cost. Depending on experience, this position may act as a discipline lead, technical authority, project engineer, or Engineer of Record for assigned work.

• Developing, reviewing, and maintaining process engineering deliverables for feasibility studies, concept selection, front-end engineering design, detailed engineering, facility modifications, debottlenecking, and brownfield projects.
• Preparing and reviewing process flow diagrams, piping and instrumentation diagrams, utility flow diagrams, and other process-related drawings.
• Developing design bases, process descriptions, operating philosophies, control philosophies, shutdown philosophies, and process narratives.
• Preparing heat and material balances and establishing normal, minimum, maximum, start-up, shutdown, and upset operating cases.
• Developing and validating process simulations using Pro Max, Aspen HYSYS, VMGSim, or equivalent applications.
• Performing equipment selection, specification, and sizing for separators, scrubbers, treaters, heat exchangers, pumps, compressors, storage vessels, tanks, dehydration systems, amine treating systems, refrigeration systems, relief systems, and related process equipment.
• Performing piping and pipeline hydraulic calculations, pressure-drop evaluations, line sizing, pump-system calculations, control-valve sizing inputs, and facility hydraulic profiles.
• Performing pressure-relief device sizing and relief-system evaluations in accordance with applicable codes and standards.
• Coordinating process engineering activities with project managers, clients, operations representatives, vendors, and other engineering disciplines.
• Participating in design reviews, model reviews, HAZOPs, What-If reviews, LOPAs, design safety reviews, and other formal risk-assessment activities.
• Conducting site visits, field investigations, facility walkdowns, and data-gathering activities as required.
• Providing technical guidance, mentorship, checking, and review for junior engineers, designers, and other team members.

• Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering from an accredited institution.
• Mechanical Engineering degree may be considered where the candidate has substantial process engineering and oil and gas facilities experience.
• Licensed Professional Engineer in Texas through the Texas Board of Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors, or eligible to obtain Texas registration within an agreed period.
• Ability to take professional responsibility for engineering work in accordance with applicable legislation, regulations, and professional practice requirements.