Principal Engineer, Process

Venture Global LNG (“Venture Global”) is a long-term, low-cost provider of American-produced liquefied natural gas. The company’s Louisiana-based export projects service the global demand for North American natural gas and support the long-term development of clean and reliable North American energy supplies. Using reliable, proven technology in an innovative plant design configuration, Venture Global’s modular, mid-scale plant design will replace traditional designs as it allows for the same efficiency and operational reliability at significantly lower capital cost.

Houston

Reporting to the Senior Director, Operations Engineering, the Principal Process Engineer is a senior technical leader and recognized operations subject‑matter expert for LNG process engineering. The position provides corporate technical leadership and practical support across operating facilities and assets in operations. The role develops and maintains process engineering requirements, practices, methods, tools, and operating guidance; provides independent technical review and assurance;

and resolves complex issues affecting process safety, production, reliability, environmental performance, product quality, and asset integrity. The position partners with site Operations Engineering teams and with Operations, Maintenance, Reliability, Process Safety, Instrumentation and Controls, Projects, Production Planning, Environmental, Regulatory, licensors, contractors, and equipment suppliers. It promotes consistent, risk‑informed practices across the LNG portfolio while recognizing legitimate differences in facility design and operating conditions.

• Serve as the operations technical authority for LNG process engineering and provide independent review and challenge for high‑risk, high‑value, novel, or complex decisions.
• Develop, implement, and maintain process engineering requirements, design criteria, specifications, calculation methodologies, procedures, technical practices, and operating guidance. Incorporate regulatory obligations, recognized good engineering practice, operating experience, incident learnings, and applicable industry developments.
• Review proposed deviations from process engineering requirements and recommend acceptance, rejection, mitigation, or further evaluation based on documented technical justification and risk.
• Provide senior‑level troubleshooting for plant trips, process instability, equipment or capacity limitations, off‑specification production, excessive flaring, abnormal utility consumption, and degraded safety, reliability, efficiency, or environmental performance.
• Analyze operating data, process trends, alarms, laboratory results, equipment performance, and heat and material balances to diagnose abnormal conditions and develop practical recommendations.
• Define and maintain operating envelopes, safe operating limits, process constraints, alarm and control limits, trip setpoints, process health indicators, and appropriate operating responses.
• Provide process engineering support across feed‑gas treatment; acid‑gas, dehydration, mercury and heavy‑hydrocarbon removal; refrigeration and liquefaction; cryogenic heat exchange; compression; boil‑off and flash gas; LNG storage and loading; fuel gas; relief, flare and depressurization; utilities; and power‑generation interfaces.
• Lead and support process optimization, production improvement, debottlenecking, energy‑efficiency, emissions‑reduction, reliability‑improvement, performance‑testing, and production‑demonstration activities. Establish performance baselines and distinguish process, equipment, controls, utility, feed‑gas, permit, and operating constraints.
• Evaluate process conditions contributing to vibration, fouling, corrosion, erosion, thermal cycling, liquid carryover, compressor instability, and other equipment‑reliability concerns; define appropriate mitigations for temporary or degraded conditions.
• Provide process engineering leadership for HAZOPs, process hazard analyses, LOPAs, design‑safety reviews, safeguard…