Sr Engineer Reliability Midstream - Instrumentation and Controls Job

HYBRID ELIGIBILITY

This position works a hybrid schedule, spending time remotely and in the office in Tioga, ND. The current hybrid schedule provides flexibility to collaborate in the office Tuesdays through Thursdays and work from home Mondays and Fridays. With our 9/80 feature you get time off every other Friday when you work at least 80 hours over the preceding nine days.

POSITION SUMMARY

This role will be responsible for leading efforts for Reliability Engineering with regards to Instrumentation in the North Dakota Bakken Asset in order to support maximizing equipment reliability.  This role will work across numerous organizational boundaries such as Operations; Maintenance, Reliability, and Integrity; Infrastructure; EHS and Global Supply Chain to support Wells & Pads, Gas/Oil/Water Gathering, and the Tioga Gas Plant.

ROLES & RESPONSIBILITIES

The primary areas of focus will include the following:

• Reliability Improvement
  • Develop and implement multi-year instrumentation improvement and obsolescence plans
  • Lead bad actor elimination efforts and ensures effectiveness of countermeasures
  • Develops and/or optimizes equipment maintenance strategies
  • Ensures reliability/availability requirements are maintained in Safety Instrumented Systems
  • Analyze predictive maintenance data Performance Standard results and initiate follow-on corrective work
  • Develops and utilizes key performance indicators to corrective action

• Troubleshooting / Operational Support
  • Work with Operations and Maintenance personnel to troubleshoot instrumentation and control equipment on an as-needed basis
  • Participate in scope development and repair of critical equipment
  • Act as instrumentation adviser to Process and Reliability Engineers concerning equipment/facilities capabilities and improvement opportunities

• Maintenance in Projects
  • Support Infrastructure projects by providing reliability, maintainability, and operability input as a representative of the Maintenance, Reliability, and Integrity team to ensure that the best designs/philosophies are being implemented with new equipment installations/modifications
  • Own instrument-driven MOCs and provide technical requirements/reviews/approvals for larger MOCs.
  • Ensure instrument maintainability/serviceability is integrated into the projects
  • Validate criticality, equipment hierarchy/taxonomy and establish maintenance strategies in SAP for equipment added in capital and site projects 

• Remote on-call and onsite support required for operational upsets/failures and incident management, as needed

Core Behaviors

• Demonstrated capabilities align with Lean practices including:
  • Lead/facilitate: Standard Work Instruction, Structured Problem Solving (A3), Leader Standard Work, Spaghetti Diagrams, Swim Lane Mapping, Dashboards and Operating Rhythm, and Conditions of Satisfaction
  • Participate/use:  Rapid Improvement Events, Value Stream Mapping, Business Planning (A3)
• Demonstrates Leading at Hess Competencies including but not limited to:
  • Results Orientation
  • Influence without authority across the organization
  • Champions change with various stakeholders
  • Team oriented and a great communicator; can support and enable a shared vision
  • Demonstrated to coach/mentor/develop team members (e.g. MRI technicians, Reliability Operators, Foundation Engineers)
• Robust problem-solving and decision-making skills that focus on delivering data driven solutions
  • Able to quickly gather, rationalize data, and prioritize improvements
  • Utilize structured problem solving to formulate solutions
• Holds safety, environmental, health, social and corporate responsibility as paramount

Work Environment

• Office Based role (Tioga) with a 9/80 work schedule.
• Field presence 3-days/week

QUALIFICATIONS

Experience & Skills

• 7+ years of experience in Instrumentation and Controls technical discipline
• Demonstrated history of utilizing Reliability Centered Maintenance tools to optimize asset performance / lifecycle
• Experience in root cause failure analysis and FMEA
• Knowledge in Process Hazard Analysis, Layer of Protection Analysis, and Safety Instrumented Systems preferred with an understanding of IEC 61511 requirements.  Certification is a plus.
• Strong knowledge in general plant and oil & gas instrumentation & field devices such as:
  • Pressure, level and flow instrumentation
  • Analyzers & Chromatographs
  • Control valves, actuators positioners and solenoids
  • Transmitters & Sensing elements
  • Flow Meters
• Proficient in MS Office and SAP

Education, Training & Certifications

• Bachelor of Science Degree in Engineering or equivalent

WHAT WE OFFER

Hess provides a comprehensive range of compensation and benefit programs that help you to take care of your health, protect your income, and build savings for the future. Our compensation philosophy is simple – we pay for performance.  The better you and the company perform, the more you can earn.  Here are a few highlights:
 

Base Salary

• Base salaries are competitive, and market based, with pay increases based on objective measures and upward moves.

Annual Incentive Plan

• Every employee participates in our Annual Incentive Plan, which awards a bonus based on how well we fare as a company on our annual performance scorecard and the person’s level of contribution.

All Employee Share Plan

• All employees are Hess stockholders, so they share in the success they help create for the company. Shares are granted to new employees who do not receive stock as part of their compensation package.

Benefits

• Hess cares about your well-being and wants to help you be your best self.  That’s why we offer a compelling benefits package that’s among the best in our industry. Highlights include: medical, dental, and vision coverage; a health savings account; 401 (K) and pension plan; a nationally recognized wellness program; and company paid basic life and disability insurance.

Learn more about our programs at https://hessbenefits.com/.

Learning & Development 

• We believe in lifelong learning and provide a suite of on-demand and instructor-led learning opportunities, in addition to a tuition reimbursement program, designed to help you achieve your professional goals.  Learning encompasses on-the-job interaction with highly skilled colleagues, self-guided study, training, mentoring and participation in formal networks (e.g., technical and employee resource groups.)

WHY HESS?

We aim to be the world’s most trusted energy partner. Modern life and continued human prosperity depends upon access to affordable and secure energy and all forms of energy are required for an orderly and just future. Hess is ideally positioned to provide low-cost oil and gas reliably to help meet the world’s growing energy needs in a way that protects the health and safety of our people, safeguards the environment, and makes a lasting positive impact in the communities where we do business. 

Everything we do is guided by six core values - Integrity, People, Performance, Social Responsibility, Value Creation, and Independent Spirit, from how we treat our employees to how we interact with our neighbors, suppliers and business partners.  They are the basic building blocks of our culture and represent our company's collective conscience. While our strategy changes over time based on business conditions, our values are enduring. 

We are an industry leader in the Bakken shale play in North Dakota, one of the largest producers in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico and a critical natural gas producer and supplier to Malaysia and Thailand. Our exploration and appraisal activities are offshore Guyana, one of the industry’s largest oil discoveries in the past decade, as well as in the Gulf of Mexico and Suriname. 

We are recognized around the world as an industry leader in environmental, social and governance performance and disclosure. 

Hess provides challenging and rewarding opportunities for personal growth. We are always looking for talented professionals who share our values and are passionate about making a difference in the world and in their careers. Unlike much larger companies, we are agile and every member of the team, regardless of level or position, plays an important role. 

We invite you to learn more about what makes us a special place to work.  Click here (www.hess.com) 

Hess is committed to maintaining a culture of diversity, equity and inclusion. We are an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer. For our complete EEO/AA and Pay Transparency statement, please visit Diversity and Inclusion | Hess Corporation. To request reasonable accommodation, click here or send an email to MyHR@Hess.com.

Posting Notes: Catherine Denise Nichols | Employee | Facilities & Projects | United States| North Dakota | Tioga | | No | 27374