The Center for Process Excellence is a newly created organization. The organization is charged with providing Technical, Process and Continuous Improvement leadership, and support across Aera.

The Central Technical Organization is being created to ensure that experienced qualified resources are available to support teams focused on Aera’s unproved reserves. The Senior Facilities Project Engineer will provide engineering support and project management leadership to new development and innovation projects. The Senior Facilities Project Engineer will advance the decision analysis, detailed design of pilots and full scale projects, selection of recovery and operational processes, identification of HS&E considerations, and cost estimation for various projects and pilots. Project work will focus on growth of Aera’s proved reserve base.

Key Deliverables:

• Technical and project management leadership and support to development and innovation projects

• Project design through implementation including “greenfield” projects

Primary Functions/Responsibilities:

• Developing project definition and obtaining concurrence from all stakeholders

• Managing facilities process design within the boundaries of the project definition

• Developing cost estimates for the approved project definition

• Developing project implementation plans, and detailing procurement strategy, materials handling strategy, detailed strategy, and contracting strategy

• Incorporating safety into all process designs and facilities

• Ensuring that all process designs and resulting facilities protect the environment

• Ensuring that all process designs and resulting facilities comply with all governing laws and regulations

• Executing projects in accordance with the Aera Project Management Process Guide

• Incorporating “lean” principles into project execution to improve the Company’s competitive position in being able to deliver facilities and systems to support oil and gas production

• Identifying risks and uncertainties in project execution and recommending contingencies that support their mitigation. Maintaining project cost estimates using contingency rundown and a disciplined approach to change order management

• Selecting materials of construction fit for service conditions (temperature, pressure corrosively)

• Communicating with all stakeholders (management, process team, engineering, contractors) affected by projects

• Performing economic analysis for projects and decisions

Experience/Qualifications:

• 10+ years facilities and Project Management experience

• Project engineer/manager for small to medium-sized projects in which implementation was recognized as successful

• Project engineer/manager for a project that had issues which prevented implementation as originally planned

• Basic knowledge of piping design codes and their applicability (e.g., ANSI B31.3)

• Basic knowledge of pressure vessel codes and their applicability

• Basic knowledge of pump system or compressor system design and control

• Scope development experience, including understanding of how to gather and assess customer/stakeholder requirements

• Facilitation experience with groups containing people with diverse backgrounds, expertise, and goals/objectives

• Internal or external publication or contribution to publication

• Expertise in specialized technical area