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Facilities Engineer
Location: Calgary
Contract: 12-18 months (maternity cover)
My client is currently recruiting an Integrated Facilities Engineer to report to the Calgary based Production Delivery Team Lead in our Oil Sands Operations. The PDT Integrated Facilities Engineer will be responsible for a wide spectrum of integrated tasks within the team ranging from short and long-term asset forecasting, integrated planning optimization, asset operation KPI surveillance, and production performance. The selected candidate needs to have a thorough understanding of the overall operation of a SAGD facility and the leadership and personal skills to work and coordinate with the System Leads across organizational boundaries.
This is an excellent position for an engineer who is interested in multi-disciplinary scope, has effective communication skills and who would like to expand his/her areas of expertise in operations.
Primary Responsibilities:
Production Delivery and Optimization (< 120 days)

• Responsible for developing the production profiles utilizing the OTSG schedule, well forecasts and Integrated Plan (<120D).
• Maintain and optimize 120-day OTSG Schedule based on production forecast.
• Support teams with 28-day Integrated Plan facility break-in scope to ensure potential production impacts are evaluated.
• Liaison between Facility Engineering, Asset Integrity, Operations (RPM, Maintenance), MMP, Automation & IT, and P&O team.

Production Forecasting (< 24 months)

• OTSG Schedule

Key stakeholder in the development of the annual OTSG outage program

• Identify opportunities to optimize and shelter outages occurring on the same equipment
• Identify and make long term water balance risks (> 120d) more visible.
• Lead the Strategy Team in cost benefit analyses of incremental steam vs GHG impact and recommendation on Steam Strategy to SALT.

Champion the use of Data Analytics tools to optimize plant performance.
Secondary Responsibilities

• Provide coverage for the Field Production Optimization Engineer (field based), Sales and Blending Engineer and PD Production Engineer.
• Support Facility Engineers on performance, planning, optimization, and development of PD Operational Plans.
• Active participant of Asset Event Management when unforeseen facility events occur.
• Support Facility Engineers with an asset wide perspective of production focused actions for work prioritization.

Required Qualifications

• Legally authorized to work in Canada on a full-time basis without restrictions.
• A self-starter, willing to work independently and across organizational boundaries.
• Degree in Engineering or equivalent.
• Strong organizational, written, and oral communication skills.
• Minimum 8 years of experience with 5 years in oil/gas engineering role.
• Ability and willingness to travel to Fort McMurray for field site visits.

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