Engineering Manager
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Expert
Bachelor's
Anchorage, AK, USA
In Person
Engineering ManagementEngineering Leadership
About the job
Requirements
- At least 15 years of relevant engineering experience in midstream, pipeline, LNG, oil and gas facilities, processing, or related industrial operations.
- At least 3 years of engineering leadership experience, including supervision, mentoring, technical oversight, or management of technical teams.
- Strong knowledge of midstream facilities and systems, including pipelines, compression, pump stations, pressure/rate control, tanks, LNG facilities, metering, controls/SCADA, storage, and loading systems.
- Working knowledge of relevant codes, standards, and regulations, including ASME, API, DOT/PHMSA, PSM, NFPA, OSHA, and state and environmental requirements.
- Experience with design, technical assurance, management of change, hazard analysis, root-cause analysis, incident investigations, reliability improvement, and optimization.
- Experience supporting capital and expense projects, including scope, equipment selection, estimates, AFE support, cost tracking, schedules, construction, commissioning, and startup.
- Ability to balance safety, compliance, technical quality, cost, schedule, operability, reliability, and commercial value.
- Ability to constructively challenge, make sound decisions with incomplete information, and influence across functions.
- Strong business acumen and understanding of how engineering decisions affect revenue, cost, capital efficiency, regulatory exposure, and asset value.
- Willingness to operate as a hands-on working manager when needed.
- Strong communication skills, including translating technical issues into clear recommendations.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities, solve ambiguous problems, and drive work to completion.
- A bachelor's degree in Engineering from an accredited university is required.
- Availability as required to support operational continuity, emergency response, and critical decision-making.
- Ability to protect proprietary and sensitive information through confidentiality and discretion.
Responsibilities
- Lead, develop, and hold the Alaska engineering team accountable.
- 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.
- 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, management of change, hazard analysis, process safety, and technical assurance processes.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 management of change processes, PHAs, HAZOPs, investigations, audits, inspections, and regulatory commitments.
- Identify common solutions, better tools, repeatable processes, and shared learnings across teams.
- Promote practical innovation and continuous improvement.
- Maintain technical knowledge through industry engagement, professional development, lessons learned, and emerging best practices.
- Adhere to the company’s values of integrity, ownership, urgency, alignment, and innovation.
- Supervise personnel, including conducting performance evaluations, providing ongoing feedback, and supporting professional development.
- Support salary administration, workforce planning, and succession planning efforts.
- Represent the company professionally with employees, contractors, vendors, regulators, partners, customers, and other external stakeholders.
- Maintain employee confidence and protect company assets, including proprietary and sensitive information, through appropriate confidentiality and discretion.
- Perform other duties as assigned by management.
Desired Qualifications
- A Professional Engineering (PE) license is preferred but not required.
- An advanced technical degree, business education, or relevant professional certifications are preferred but not required.
About the company
Harvest Midstream provides midstream services that gather, transport, process, treat, store, and terminus crude oil, natural gas, and natural gas liquids for a wide range of producers. Its network uses more than 6,000 miles of pipelines across multiple states, plus gas processing and related facilities, to move resources from production sites to refineries and customers. The company differentiates itself through its strategy of growth via acquisitions, expanding pipelines and processing capacity in major basins as an affiliate of Hilcorp Energy and committing to long-term customer relationships and safety. Its goal is to broaden its footprint in key U.S. energy regions and maintain reliable, accessible energy infrastructure by pursuing strategic asset acquisitions and expansions.
Company Size
201-500
Company Stage
Debt Financing
Total Funding
$1B
Headquarters
Houston, Texas
Founded
2002
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Harvest completed the Kenai LNG terminal purchase in 2025 and targets imports by 1H28.
- A 2026 $1 billion notes deal refinanced debt and extended maturity to 2034.
- North Slope LNG deliveries to Fairbanks prove Harvest can monetize stranded Alaska gas.
What critics are saying
- Southcentral Alaska gas shortfalls force Kenai FID by 2Q26; delays destroy credibility.
- The 2026 Williams contract dispute shows asset acquisitions still trigger costly integration fights.
- Any Kenai permit denial or import delay leaves Harvest exposed to Alaska supply collapse.
What makes Harvest Midstream unique
- Harvest controls Alaska's only integrated North Slope-to-Fairbanks LNG supply chain.
- Its Kenai terminal gives Harvest rare optionality between LNG imports and future exports.
- Hilcorp backing and Jason Rebrook's execution keep capital decisions fast and centralized.
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Benefits
- Paid Sick Leave
- Paid Vacation
- Wellness Program