Vice President, Engineering

Venture Global LNG (“Venture Global”) is a long-term, low-cost provider of American-produced liquefied natural gas. The company’s three 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.

OB DUTIES: Manage a project team in execution and delivery of safe, compliant, and reliable projects. Drive schedule and budget compliance for project EPC deliverables. Develop and manage staffing plans and budgets for capital projects. Utilize and understand process flow diagrams, piping and instrumentation diagrams, and heat and mass balances to develop process simulations and new or revised process control strategies. Provide oversight of the work being done by other senior engineering leaders in an oversight and coaching role. Offer creative solutions for process limitations, and unchallenged practices. Participate in and guide process hazard studies like HAZOP. Ensure detail design document reviews are completed accurately and within the required timeframe. Review and optimize engineering design philosophies. Participate and actively contribute to scheduled design reviews. Prepare reports and evaluations of engineering solutions and communicate main drivers of the issues concisely, with executives as well as engineers and site technical personnel. 

JOB REQUIREMENTS: This job requires a Bachelor’s degree in Process Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related field and 10 years of experience as an engineering manager with major project experience in design, commissioning, operations, and site construction within the oil and gas industry. 

Must have the following prior experience:

• Technical Assurance oversight and managing an engineering team to support the engineering, procurement, construction, and commissioning activities for LNG multiple LNG Projects;
• Development of a technical assurance plan and charter which outlined the scope, roles and responsibilities for achieving technical assurance and technical integrity on the project;
• Ensuring the technical team are well versed and familiarized with the requirements of the applicable codes and standards of the project. Specifically, requirements associated with NFPA59A and 49CFR193;
• Managing the delivery of engineering documentation to support the full life cycle performance of the project including demonstration testing, requirements for PSSR and documents to support the handover to the Operations teams;
• Implementing a program of lessons learned to provide continuous improvement;
• Monitoring the implementation of the licensors design requirements into the LNG plant design;
• Implementation of formal safety reviews such as HAZOP, LOPA, 3D plant model development and constructability;
• Ensuring technical compliance with Project Codes and Standards;
• Development and stewardship of the Project Management of Change Process;
• Technical experience in engineering, including in natural gas treatment and liquefaction technology;
• Experience including development of Blueprints, Process simulations utilizing Hysys software, process feasibility studies, equipment sizing, leading safety reviews, sizing of pressure relief systems and developing project philosophies and design criteria;
• Experience in LNG technologies including APCI C3MR (Propane Mixed Refrigerant), SMR (Single Mixed Refrigerant), and Floating LNG  

Qualified applicants should email cover letter and resume to: [email protected]. Reference: “Vice President, Engineering”  

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.