Process Engineer

Alyeska Pipeline Service Company operates and maintains the 800-mile Trans Alaska Pipeline System (TAPS). Formed in 1970 to design and build the pipeline, Alyeska Pipeline acts as agent for the five companies who own the Trans-Alaska pipeline. Almost 811 employees work in Anchorage, Fairbanks, Valdez and field locations along the pipeline.

We are currently seeking a Process Engineer to join the growing team at our Anchorage, AK facility.

Accountabilities and Specific Requirements:

• Provide leadership over Process Safety practices by developing and continuously enhancing Process Safety related methodologies such as Process Hazard Analysis, Layers of Protection Analysis, and Management of Change
• Participate and/or lead Process Hazard Analyses; facilitate management review and acceptance of PHA recommendations, LOP, and recommended process designs and changes.
• Provide process engineering and process safety review of Management of Change driven work
• Provide leadership over in-depth evaluation of process design and process safety reviews and analysis when required
• Quickly learn and understand pipeline operation, hydraulics, and process control to a level that allows application to review/approval of process design, process safety impacts, and operations impacts
• Participation (and leadership) over operating procedure changes and development including temporary shutdown and restart procedures
• Ability to identify and resolve non-routine and complex problems
• Ability to lead multi-disciplinary teams to resolve complex problems
• Ability to develop executive summaries and present data that allows management understanding of issues and proposed solutions
• Ability to coordinate work between Operations, Maintenance, and Engineering  organizations to achieve results.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in an Engineering discipline
• Four (4) years of related experience
• Broad technical knowledge of multiple areas of discipline including: OSHA Process Safety Management Regulation, industrial operations; including utilization of control systems in this environment.
• Knowledge of engineering concepts, practices, and procedures within discipline area, such as; utilizing Management of Change protocols for process and operational changes
• Advanced written and oral communication skills.
• Ability to travel for business up to 20% of the time

Preferred qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in chemical, petroleum, or mechanical engineering
• 10 years of combined operations, process, and process safety engineering in chemicals, refining, petrochemicals or related industries.
• Demonstrated understanding of pipeline hydraulics with modeling experience
• Demonstrated experience leading Process Hazard Analysis and Layers of Protection Analysis
• Demonstrated understanding of advanced process design and process control design as it applies to new and modified processes
• Demonstrated ability to develop and implement safety interlock(s) as a layer of protection
• Demonstrated knowledge of pipeline pigging operations
• Experience with remote, control room operation with demonstrated ability to develop/modify operating procedures
• Demonstrated working knowledge of transmitters and instrumentation

Pre-Employment Drug Screen Testing

Alyeska Pipeline Service Company (APSC) requires pre-employment drug testing utilizing hair test collections for all positions. The preferred collection site is from the head (approximately 1/2 inch of hair length necessary). Head hair testing provides an approximate 90 day window of detection that checks for illegal drug use. In addition, for Department of Transportation covered positions, APSC will also utilize urinalysis testing. Any positive drug test makes you ineligible for APSC employment.

It is important to note that APSC does not seek or accept any genetic information as part of the hair testing procedure or any other process that could directly or inadvertently provide genetic information (family medical history).

Employment Verification using EVerify

Federal Law requires all employers to verify identity and employment eligibility of all persons hired to work in the United States. Alyeska Pipeline Service Company participates in E-Verify.

E-Verify is an Internet-based system that compares information from an employee's Form I-9, Employment Eligibility Verification, to data from U.S Department of Homeland Security and Social Security Administration records to confirm employment eligibility. style="line-height: normal"> 

TWIC

The Alyeska Valdez Marine Terminal (VMT) is a regulated facility, and the employee hired to work on the VMT or to provide emergency support or other approved work for the VMT will be required to have a Transportation Worker Identification Credential (TWIC). For more information about this Federal credential access the Web site listed below. The successful candidate for this job will be notified if a TWIC will be required and will then be responsible for enrolling and obtaining a TWIC prior to their hire date.