Hydraulic Engineer- Houston

Our client is seeking a Pipeline Hydraulic Engineer for their office in Houston, Texas.

Hybrid role- Direct hire

US Citizens only

Seeking someone with about 15+ years of experience.

Experience with DNV-GL's Synergi software is highly preferred.

This individual will be responsible for hydraulic modeling; surge analysis (relief systems and valve timing), DRA optimization, capacity optimization, batch sizing analysis and commercial / business development scenario modeling, etc.

Salary is DOE $160K-$190K.

Additional Duties : This list does not include all duties.

• Provides consultation and project support for hydraulic applications and real-time computer-based computational monitoring.
• Evaluates model performance against actual pipeline performance to identify and execute improvement opportunities.
• Train pipeline controllers to better understand hydraulics and operational issues.
• Evaluates pipeline performance opportunities for the control center (hydraulic analysis, etc.) and provides input into operational philosophies / improvements.
• Optimize electrical / DRA costs by analyzing the optimal DRA dosages for each crude grade and batch size.
• Track and forecast electric and DRA cost for budgeting.
• Assist Commercial / Business development by modeling potential acquisition and / or expansion projects to help them better understand the hydraulic limitations and / or design needs.
• Coordinates efforts at all levels with other departments.
• Demonstrates leadership in work groups through knowledge of hydraulic analysis and design.
• Assist Leak Detection Engineer as needed to align hydraulic models used for RTTM / CPM leak detection and transient hydraulic models (DNV-GL and Gregg Engineering).
• Support Field Engineering teams regarding surge relief design / settings and automated shutdown logic.
• Support Automation teams regarding valve timing and automated shutdown / slowdown logic.
• Assist Integrity Engineering teams with ILI tool runs and any potential pressure reductions as it relates to throughput impacts.
• Participate in front-end hydraulic analysis for all projects.
• Assists operations engineers / system design engineers via peer review for various modeling efforts.
• Participates in incident investigations.
• Participates in the Management of Change (MOC) process and documents Best Practices.