Pipeline Facilities Engineer
Blueprint Power
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Production & Operations
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Job Description:
The Pipeline Facilities Engineer provides technical support for operations and projects across pipeline pump stations, metering facilities, storage tank farms, and loading racks. This role is highly autonomous yet embedded in the central engineering team, requiring collaboration with Operations, Maintenance, Supply, Business Development, and Engineering. External interactions include equipment vendors and mechanical contractors. Additionally, the Facility Engineer supports the site reliability improvement efforts.
Key Accountabilities:
Reliability Support
Champion reliability processes for frontline teams (RCA, PCA, Asset Strategies).
Use downtime reports, RCA, and PLA data to resolve issues and improve site reliability.
Track and report critical metrics (downtime, availability, utilization, RCA, recommendations).
Identify production improvement and upgrade opportunities for aging equipment.
Implement Business Improvement Plan (BIP) priorities to improve asset reliability and availability.
Lead RCAs, manage actions in GE APM, and initiate failure investigations.
Support PCA by collecting data, planning logistics, and maintaining records.
Develop and update asset strategies at the asset/pipeline level.
Optimize maintenance plans and spare parts' inventory to improve efficiency and equipment effectiveness.
Engineering Support
Maintain site presence with strong awareness of asset vulnerabilities and engineering issues.
Act as the first point of contact for engineering issues, performing triage and decision-making.
Contribute engineering guidance to SOP improvements and infrequent operating procedures.
Support site projects with engineering expertise.
Engineering Design
Ensure conformance with engineering requirements (ETPs, industry standards, PHMSA regulations).
Update engineering drawings and maintain asset documentation.
Define safe operating and design limits for pipelines, pumps, PSVs, tanks, and control valves.
Review site overrides, defeated safety devices, and alarm management.
Perform RV sizing, pipe stress analysis, span length evaluation, wheel load assessment, and MAOP verification.
Integrity Support
Provide technical feedback on defect elimination.
Ensure equipment integrity inspection plans are in place.
Investigate integrity failures, identify root causes, and implement corrective actions.
Process Safety Support
Support HAZOP/LOPA studies, collect documentation, and manage corrective actions.
Initiate and coordinate the Management of Change (MoC) process and track action items.
Assist in risk management, developing and implementing risk barrier action plans.
Support audits and self-verification activities.
Requirements:
Bachelor’s Degree or higher in engineering
Over 3 years relevant experience in the oil & gas industry, reliability oriented, integrity and maintenance of facility equipment
Experience with engineering industry code and standards
Experience on an operating asset.
Knowledge of relevant industry codes and standards.
Stakeholder management experience, good interpersonal skills.
Highly autonomous
Why join us!
At bp, we support our people to learn and grow in a diverse and exciting environment. We believe that our team is strengthened by diversity. We are committed to fostering an inclusive environment in which everyone is respected and treated fairly.
There are many aspects of our employees’ lives that are important, so we offer benefits to enable your work to fit with your life. These benefits can include flexible working options, a generous paid parental leave policy, and excellent retirement benefits, among others!
We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.
How much do we pay (Base)? ($100,000 - $186,000)
*Note that the pay range listed for this position is a genuinely expected and reasonable estimate of the range of possible base compensation at the time of posting.
This position offers paid vacation depending on your years of relevant industry experience and will range from 120 – 240 hours of vacation per year for full times employees (60 - 240 hours of vacation per year for part time employees). You will also be eligible for 9 paid holidays per year and 2 personal choice holidays. You may learn more about how we calculate paid vacation and view our generous vacation and holiday schedules at benefits@bp. Bp has a parental leave policy as well, which offers up to 8 weeks’ paid leave for the birth or adoption of a child. Learn more at benefits@bp.
We offer a reward package to enable your work to fit with your life. These offerings include a discretionary annual bonus program, long-term incentive program, and generous retirement benefits that include a 401k matching program. These benefits may include a pension for eligible employees. You may learn more about our generous benefits at benefits@bp.
As part of bp’s wellbeing package, bp offers access to health, vision, and dental insurance, as well as life and Short-Term Disability and Long-Term Disability. You may learn more about our generous benefits at benefits@bp.
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We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, socioeconomic status, neurodiversity/neurocognitive functioning, veteran status or disability status. Individuals with an accessibility need may request an adjustment/accommodation related to bp’s recruiting process (e.g., accessing the job application, completing required assessments, participating in telephone screenings or interviews, etc.). If you would like to request an adjustment/accommodation related to the recruitment process, please contact us.
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