Our client, a major Oil and Gas client, is looking for a Sr. Pipeline Hydraulics Engineer to join their team on a 1-year contract in Calgary. The subject position is responsible for supporting in-house pipeline hydraulic modeling development and hydraulic analysis requested by various stakeholders including operation, integrity, business development and projects.

Primary Deliverables:

• Develop and maintain both steady state and transient hydraulic models for both LI and G&P pipeline systems.
• Build in-house pipeline hydraulics database, standards and procedures as well as coordinate training events.
• Provide hydraulic evaluation support to address safety concerns, performance challenges and management of changes in the existing pipeline operation and new pipeline commissioning.
• Collaborate with pipeline integrity team by providing hydraulic inputs to integrity analysis.
• Work closely with business development to identify the feasible options from the pipeline hydraulics perspective.
• Support pipeline steady state and transient analysis as required through all project stages.
• Provide quality assurance for the pipeline hydraulic modeling and analysis conducted by the team members, process engineers outside of the team and external contractors.
• Lead pipeline hydraulic team and best utilize the resource to meet the needs from different stakeholders.
• Lead pipeline hydraulics related discussions in both internal and external project meetings, design reviews and PHAs.
• Mentor junior engineers in pipeline hydraulics related tasks.

Qualifications:

• Engineering degree from accredited university and registered Professional Engineer in Alberta (15 - 20 yrs).
• Progressive experience in pipeline/terminal steady state and transient hydraulic analysis as well as midstream facility process engineering.
• Knowledge and experience in different pipeline systems such as mainlines, laterals, gathering network and broad range of shipping products in liquid, gas and multiphases.
• Proficiency in hydraulic simulation software including PIPESIM, DNV Synergi Pipeline Simulator & AFT Fathom.
• Working knowledge in HYSYS simulation and other process calculations involving fluid properties characterization, line sizing and pressure drop estimate, heat loss study, control valve sizing, etc..

Skill Set:

• Strong communication and interpersonal skills with capability to interface with both internal and external stakeholders.
• Self-motivated to be innovative, initiate and lead improvements to a team.
• Good understanding of the requests and concerns from multi disciplines and stakeholders.
• Conflict resolution.