Venture Global LNG (“Venture Global”) is a long-term, low-cost provider of American-produced liquefied natural gas. The company’s two Louisiana-based export projects service the global demand for North American natural gas and support the long-term development of clean and reliable North American energy supplies. Using reliable, proven technology in an innovative plant design configuration, Venture Global’s modular, mid-scale plant design will replace traditional designs as it allows for the same efficiency and operational reliability at significantly lower capital cost.

We are seeking a Principal Production Engineer, Liquefaction to join our Integrated Production Excellence team based in Arlington, VA.

This role will be responsible for optimizing the Availability and Performance of the Company’s LNG Liquefaction Trains and support the overall Production System Optimization effort across all sites.

Responsibilities:

• Set LNG Trains Production daily targets, define operating limits and engage with Operations, Maintenance and Engineering to develop the Production Plan for the day. 
• Build and maintain Real time, online, surveillance and monitoring models to optimize the Availability and Performance of the LNG Liquefaction Trains 
• Perform Analysis to detect deviations from Live Operating Envelope Limits and identify the actions required to safely and reliably maximize LNG rundown.
• Identify short-, medium- and long-term Availability and Reliability improvement initiatives to maximize LNG rundown using insights from Real time System and Physics-based/data-driven models. 
• Identify Production risks that could impact Availability and Reliability and develop mitigation plans to address them
• Provide input to the weekly and monthly Production reviews and follow up on any actions required to improve the performance of the LNG Trains
• Identify the LNG Trains production loss events and engage with the relevant stakeholders (including but not limited to Engineering, Maintenance, Operations) to review, validate, report and manage production losses in a timely manner to maximize Availability and Reliability
• Lead or be part of EIRs (Engineering Investigation Requests) and MoCs (Management of Change) required to improve the LNG Trains performance.
• Lead or be part of the CP Facility LNG Trains Production loss RCAs when required.
• Gather the required assumptions on LNG Trains performance and provide timely input to the Forecast and Annual Delivery Plan process.
• Support the Long-Term Service Agreement (LTSA) process and provide all the required input and analysis as required 
• Support the development of Integrated Production Excellence standards and procedures.
• Capture Lessons Learned from the Venture Global LNG operating Facilities and provide input to other Venture Global LNG projects / sites as required

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Process/Chemical Engineering 
• Minimum 10 years experience working as a Process/Production Engineer with a demonstrated track record of Production performance improvement. 
• Oil and Gas experience is required, with strong preference in LNG, however, petrochemical, NGL, cryogenic natural gas processing, or other hydrocarbon processing experience may be acceptable.  

Venture Global LNG is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status or any other basis covered by appropriate law.