Senior Production Engineer - Nederland, TX

The Senior Production Engineer plays a critical role in ensuring safe, reliable, and optimized LNG production at the facility. This position is responsible for developing and managing short and longterm production schedules that balance feed gas availability, equipment capabilities, storage limits, and commercial commitments. By analyzing plant performance and collaborating closely with operations, maintenance, process engineering, and commercial teams, the engineer helps maximize throughput while minimizing flaring, energy consumption, and operational losses.

A key function of the role is production accounting, which includes tracking and validating downtime events, quantifying production losses, maintaining accurate energy balances, and forecasting LNG and gas volumes to support commercial, financial, and regulatory reporting. The Senior Production Engineer provides the analytical foundation for operational decision making, identifies optimization opportunities, and ensures that production plans remain aligned with regulatory requirements, environmental constraints, and business objectives.

This position ultimately supports stable, efficient plant operations and contributes to achieving the site's performance, reliability, and financial goals.

• Develop daily, weekly, and monthly LNG production plans aligned with feed gas supply, LNG storage and shipping.
• Optimize LNG output to reduce flaring and energy use.
• Track and report production losses, downtime, and operational derates.
• Maintain Loss Accounting System (LAS) and report revenue impacts to accounting.
• Develop site-wide energy balances and monitor energy KPIs.
• Identify efficiency improvement opportunities.
• Prepare production forecasts and validate against custody transfer data.
• Submit monthly and quarterly reports to accounting and leadership.
• Coordinate with control room, field ops, shipping, and maintenance planning.
• Adjust schedules during equipment restrictions, weather, and supply changes.
• Track the facility Chemical and Refrigerant requirements, by utilizing appropriate measures and tools to ensure the uninterrupted operation of the facility.
• Develop and update procedures and startup/shutdown plans.
• Align production plans with environmental permit limits on flaring, fuel, and emissions.
• The duties and responsibilities described are not a comprehensive list, and additional tasks may be assigned to the employee from time to time, or the scope of the necessitation by business demands.
• Other duties as assigned