Engineering Manager Jobs in Houston, AK (NOW HIRING)

Essential Job Responsibilities:

Leadership and Team Development

• Lead, develop, and holdaccountablethe 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.

• Ensureresponsive engineering support for Operations, Business Development, Project Management, Integrity, EH&S, Commercial, and Finance.

Engineering Oversight and Technical Assurance

• Serve 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 Leadership

• Partner 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,risktradeoffs, 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 Support

• Stayclosely engagedwith 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 recommendationsreflectsafe operations, maintainability, commissioning readiness, field constraints, and operator input.

• Support incident response and time-sensitive technical decisions as needed.

Capital, Expense, and Project Support

• Lead 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 businessobjectives.

• 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 Management

• Ensure engineering workcomplies withregulations, 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.

• Ensuretimelyclosure of engineering action items from MOCs, PHAs, HAZOPs, investigations, audits, inspections, and regulatory commitments.

Continuous Improvement

• Identifycommon solutions, better tools, repeatable processes, andsharedlearnings across teams.

• Promote practical innovation and continuous improvement.

• Maintain technical knowledge through industry engagement, professional development, lessons learned, andemergingbest 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 asrequiredto support operational continuity, emergency response, and critical decision-making.

• Maintain employee confidence and protect company assets, including proprietary and sensitive information, throughappropriate confidentialityand discretion.

• Perform otherduties asassigned by management.

Qualifications:

Minimum Qualifications

• 15+ years of relevant engineering experience in midstream, pipeline, LNG, oil and gas facilities, processing, or related industrial operations.

• 3+ years ofEngineering 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, equipmentselection, 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 tooperateas a hands-on working manager when needed.

• Strong communicationskills, including translating technical issues into clear recommendations.

• Ability to manage multiple priorities, solve ambiguous problems, and drive work to completion.

• Professional Engineering (PE)licensepreferred but notrequired.

Education Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineeringfrom an accredited university isrequired.

• Advanced technicaldegree, business education, or relevant professional certifications are preferred but notrequired.