26-089.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.

Essential Job Responsibilities:

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 industry engagement, professional development, lessons learned, and   emerging   best practices.

Other Job Responsibilities:

- Adheres to the company’s values – 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 availability as   required   to support operational continuity, emergency response, and critical decision-making.

- Maintain employee confidence and protect company assets, including proprietary and sensitive information, through   appropriate confidentiality   and discretion.

- Perform other   duties as   assigned by management.

Qualifications:

Minimum Qualifications

- 15+ years of relevant engineering experience in midstream, pipeline, LNG, oil and gas facilities, processing, or related industrial operations.

- 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/environmental requirements.

- Experience with design, technical assurance, MOC, 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.

- Professional Engineering (PE)   license   preferred but not   required .

Education Requirements:

- Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering   from an accredited university is   required .

- Advanced technical   degree , business education, or relevant professional certifications are preferred but not   required .