Measurement and verification engineer job description

Engineer, Measurement-000CVEDescription Enterprise Products Partners L.P. is one of the largest publicly traded partnerships and a leading North American provider of midstream energy services to producers and consumers of natural gas, NGLs, crude oil, refined products and petrochemicals. Our services include: natural gas gathering, treating, processing, transportation and storage; NGL transportation, fractionation, storage and import and export terminals; crude oil gathering, transportation, storage and terminals; petrochemical and refined products transportation, storage and terminals; and a marine transportation business that operates primarily on the United States inland and Intracoastal Waterway systems. The partnership's assets include approximately 50,000 miles of pipelines; 260 million barrels of storage capacity for NGLs, crude oil, refined products and petrochemicals; and 14 billion cubic feet of natural gas storage capacity.

The Measurement Engineer will be responsible for material balance support for the assigned area of responsibility and assist the manager of material balance in that region. They will also be responsible for leading team efforts with defining and championing proper measurement equipment selection and installation with a focus on measurement risk minimization, operability, and fiscal responsibility. The position will reside in the Houston offices and will report to the Manager of Measurement Engineering. Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

Lead mitigation efforts to analyze, resolve, and communicate gain/loss issues and resolve material balance differences. Efforts will be both individual and team environments.

Understand the assigned asset physical balances and how those are transferred into financial accounting and financial reporting.

Work with Measurement and Material Balance managers to provide technical assistance and troubleshooting where required.

Work with the Measurement and Material Balance Managers to identify, initiate, and track improvement projects in the assigned areas.

Develop recommendations for improvements to existing systems and practices to streamline measurement processes internal and external to the department.
Build an understanding of measurement reporting and balancing systems and equipment.
Coordinate with Engineering and Field Operations on new and changes to existing measurement projects to ensure proper selection and installation of equipment for custody measurement and material balance measurement. Coordinate within the department to ensure proper measurement technical teams are involved in project execution and maintenance and troubleshooting efforts for measurement locations.
Determine the effects of measurement projects on existing material balance systems and equipment develop a scope of required equipment and communicate measurement needs to all stakeholders.
Assist the development and maintenance of corporate standards for measurement across all the company.
Develop expertise in Gas and Liquid measurement practices, standards, and applications including meter specifications, installations, proving, calibrations, and communication.

Qualifications
The successful candidate will meet the following qualifications:

Bachelor's degree in Engineering is required.
3+ years of experience in applied engineering is required.
Experience in chemical plant and/or pipeline is required.
Measurement experience (gas or liquid) is required.
Understanding of basic accounting principles is preferred.
Self- starter with the ability to manage multiple priorities without daily direction.
Ability to lead small team environments with defined problem solving objective.
Proficient with PC including working knowledge and experience with Microsoft software (Outlook, Word, Excel, etc.).
Excellent troubleshooting and analytical skills are required.
Excellent written and oral communication skills. Must possess strong decision-making ability.
Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to work either independently or as part of a team.
Must be able to travel up to 25%.

Primary Location: USA-Texas-HoustonShift: Day JobTravel: Yes, 25 % of the TimeUnposting Date: OngoingOrganization: EngineeringJob: EngineeringJob Level: Individual Contributor

Travel worldwide: 10-40%, typical 1-2 week durations - up to 8 weeks

Hours Knoxville: 40/week

Hours When Traveling: 40-100/week

Reports To: Measurement Services Manager / Director of Measurement Services

Position Summary:

Responsible for maintaining calibration instrumentation, improving and developing new Calibration Lab processes, product development, and supporting ISO/IEC 17025 Quality Management System activities.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

• Improvement of existing Calibration Lab processes and development of new processes.
• Product development for new instrumentation, instrumentation systems, upgrades.
• Calibration of pressure transmitters, RTD’s, multimeters, torque wrenches, dimensional hand tools, etc.
• ISO/IEC 17025 Quality Management System support and QA/QC, including but not limited to uncertainty budgets, internal auditing, document control, method validation, data analysis.
• Calibration procedure writing and development.
• Maintenance of 24&48V DC HART data acquisition system, test instrumentation, reviewing the specifications and working conditions of these systems and instruments. In particular, data communications and cabling requirements.
• Development of future bus-type data collection system.
• Support of our other testing engineers and technicians with instrumentation troubleshooting.
• Installation best practices procedure / documentation development and maintenance.
• Assisting others with priority management and balancing workload.
• Training of less experienced team members.

Desired Attributes:

• Self-motivated and works well with little supervision.
• Excellent ability to manage time and prioritize tasks.
• Works well in an environment where priorities change often.
• Would enjoy an opportunity to be creative, collaborate to expand capabilities and serve more industries, and grow the existing customer base.

Qualifications - Education/Experience

• Background experience in the maintenance and/or design of measurement services
• Fundamental knowledge of how various types of instruments work (i.e. a thermocouple is based on two wires creating a mv signal, pressure transmitters are diaphragm or bourdon tube or pizieo electric sensors, etc.) and why we should use one fundamental technology over the others.

Experience with the following would be beneficial but not required:

• Fluke METCAL METTRACK or METTEAM
• ISO/IEC 17025 or ISO/IEC 90001
• Calibration and/or Asset Management Software (other than Fluke above)
• Data Acquisition Systems
• Electrical Instrumentation (operation or calibration): Oscilloscopes, Spectrum Analyzers, Waveform Generators, Frequency Counters, Frequency Generators
• B.S. Electrical Engineering or Mechanical Engineering