Job Objective:

The Engineering Manager is the technical leader for Alaska midstream assets, including pipelines, compression, LNG facilities, measurement, controls, and related infrastructure. This role partners with Operations and Business Development to ensure decisions are safe, compliant, technically sound, practical, and aligned with business objectives.

This working manager role leads the engineering team while staying technically engaged and developing practical, fit-for-purpose solutions.

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 company27s 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:

Bachelor27s Degree in Engineeringfrom an accredited university isrequired.

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

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