Process Engineering Manager

Project

The Woodfibre LNG Project is located approximately 7 km west-southwest of Squamish, British Columbia. It includes the construction and operation of a liquefied natural gas (LNG) export facility on the previous Woodfibre pulp mill site, which will have a storage capacity of 250,000 m3 and will produce approximately 2.1 million tons per year of LNG.

Woodfibre Management Ltd. is a privately held Canadian company based in Vancouver and a subsidiary of Pacific Energy Corporation Limited.

The Process Engineering Manager is an integral part of Woodfibre LNG ’s operations team. The Process Engineering Manager will work with a small team of multi-discipline engineers, supporting the plant Operations group through construction, commissioning, start‑up and steady state, ensuring safe, reliable and sustainable production, thus meeting our offtaker’s requirements. The successful candidate reports directly to the Process Engineering Manager and will play an essential part in supporting the company’s Operations team, Commercial team and external stakeholders through the construction and operating phases of the project.

The successful applicant will:

• Provide leadership to a process support team, on Process Engineering, Process Control, Production Planning and Laboratory Services and Management System
• Support the start-up of the plant, working with the plant Operations group in optimizing the commissioning and start-up schedule.
• Manage Production Planning and Forecasting and provide support to the Marketing function.
• Manage the plant feed gas demand and interface with the pipeline operator, Fortis BC.
• Manage offtake of LNG cargoes and Condensate parcels and provide assurance on quantity and quality of those.
• Set and manage daily, weekly, monthly plant mass balance and performance reports.
• Set up and manage hydrocarbon accounting in conjunction with Finance and Commercial functions.
• Prepare for and manage and report on process unit and equipment performance test runs.
• Monitor and report on the performance of the plant process units and utility systems on a daily, weekly and monthly basis, with the objective to continuously improve on process safety, reliability and efficiency.
• In conjunction with the Environment function, bBe the lead on management of methane abatement, energy efficiency improvement and emissions management.
• Support maximization of plant capacity through process simulation, calculations and reporting.
• Be the owner of process safety management for the company. Lead and implement all process safety requirements. Provide process safety assurance to management and stakeholders.
• Be the owner of the Woodfibre Management System for the company. Lead the initial set up and ongoing development of it.
• Be the owner of Integrated Activity Planning for the company. Lead the initial set up and ongoing development of it.
• Provide support to plant trip investigation/reporting and reliability improvement.
• Set up an effective advanced control system for the early operations phase of the plant and enhance this with plant optimization functionalities in following years.
• Be the owner of the process control domain security.
• Continuously improve plant performance through initiation and follow through on Management of Change and lead the pre‑FEED maturation of sustainable capital projects.
• Lead the HAZOP and other process safety reviews where required. Ensure plant HAZOP remains current as per regulatory requirements
• Provide day to day support for operations on production issues.
• Analyze and report on plant and equipment performance and for cost & efficiency improvement.
• Manage the plant laboratory and external laboratory service contractor, providing quality assurance for the LNG product and Condensate.
• Provide adequate performance measurement and feedback for Process Engineering team members.
• Set and communicate yearly tasks and targets for each person in the Process Engineering team.
• Manage the process support team Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s) and reporting.

• Demonstrate a personal commitment to continuously improve personnel and process safety in the plant.
• Champion process safety and manage the…