Engineering Manager

Engineering ManagerThe 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: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 AssuranceServe 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 LeadershipPartner 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 SupportStay 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 SupportLead 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 ManagementEnsure 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 ImprovementIdentify 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 Qualifications15+ 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.