U - Engineering Manager

Job Objective

The Engineering Manager is the technical leader for Alaska midstream assets, including pipelines, compression, LNG facilities, measurement, controls, and related infrastructure. This role partners with Operations and Business Development to ensure decisions are safe, compliant, technically sound, practical, and aligned with business objectives. This working manager role leads the engineering team while staying technically engaged and developing practical, fit-for-purpose solutions.

• Leadership and Team Development:
  Lead, develop, and hold accountable the Alaska engineering team. Set priorities, expectations, and goals to ensure safe, efficient, high-quality engineering work. Provide regular feedback, performance support, mentoring, and development. Promote safety, ownership, urgency, accountability, innovation, and engineering excellence. Ensure responsive engineering support for Operations, Business Development, Project Management, Integrity, EH&S, Commercial, and Finance.
• Engineering Oversight and Technical Assurance:
  Serve as the primary technical authority for Alaska engineering decisions, risks, priorities, and tradeoffs. Review and approve engineering designs, scopes, specifications, calculations, recommendations, and deliverables. Ensure solutions are sound, fit‑for‑purpose, constructible, operable, maintainable, compliant, and commercially reasonable. Support technical evaluations, root‑cause analysis, reliability reviews, and optimization efforts. Ensure proper use of standards, design reviews, MOC, hazard analysis, process safety, and technical assurance processes.
• Business Partnership and Strategic Leadership:
  Partner with Alaska leadership, Operations, and Business Development to align technical execution with business priorities. Provide engineering input for business development, commercial evaluations, asset strategy, capital planning, and long-range development. Apply business judgment to cost-benefit analysis, risk tradeoffs, capital efficiency, reliability, throughput, and asset value. Develop practical, creative solutions that meet business needs without unnecessary complexity. Translate technical issues into clear recommendations for leaders, field teams, commercial teams, regulators, and stakeholders.
• Operations, Field, and Reliability Support:
  Stay closely engaged with Operations to align engineering work with field realities and asset needs. Build strong office-field coordination through communication, site presence, and shared accountability. Support troubleshooting, equipment issues, reliability improvements, and urgent operational needs. Ensure recommendations reflect safe operations, maintainability, commissioning readiness, field constraints, and operator input. Support incident response and time-sensitive technical decisions as needed.
• Capital, Expense, and Project Support:
  Lead engineering support for capital, expense, maintenance, integrity, reliability, and business development projects. Ensure scopes, estimates, schedules, equipment selections, deliverables, and execution plans are sound, cost-effective, and aligned with business objectives. Support AFE development, approvals, cost tracking, forecasting, scope control, change management, and schedule management. Manage internal and external engineering support for quality, safety, cost, schedule, responsiveness, and execution.
• Regulatory, Compliance, Integrity, and
  
  Risk Management:
  
  Ensure engineering work complies with regulations, permits, codes, standards, and internal procedures. Support audits, inspections, agency inquiries, and regulatory compliance activities. Coordinate with Integrity, EH&S, Operations, and Compliance to address asset integrity, process safety, pipeline safety, environmental, and operational risks. Ensure timely closure of engineering action items from MOCs, PHAs, HAZOPs, investigations, audits, inspections, and regulatory commitments.
• Continuous Improvement:
  Identify common solutions, better tools, repeatable processes, and shared learnings across teams. Promote practical innovation and continuous improvement. Maintain technical knowledge through…