Project Engineer - Houston, United States - Buckeye Partners

Description

Buckeye is the premier infrastructure and logistics provider for the world's energy needs, both today and tomorrow. Since 1886, we have successfully navigated transitions in the way energy has been distributed to continually meet the needs of an evolving market and industry environment. Our people are a critical element to the success and longevity of our operational history and our future as we seek to thrive through the energy transition.

We own and operate a diversified global network of integrated assets providing midstream logistic solutions, primarily consisting of the transportation, storage, processing, and marketing of liquid petroleum products. We are committed to safely and responsibly providing world-class service to meet the continually evolving energy needs of our customers and the communities we serve. As part of this commitment to our customers, we are continually diversifying our platform and service offerings to enable less carbon intensive energy solutions and undertaking decarbonization efforts on our operations.

Buckeye Partners is currently seeking a Project Engineer to join our growing corporate project management team

Role Summary:

This position provides an opportunity to take part in advancing engineering concepts selected for major projects and turning them into a reality. As part of our team, you will provide safe, environmentally sound, reliable, and cost effective project engineering for pipeline and terminal construction projects through planning, developing, estimating, execution, commissioning, and closeout phases. The position is a support role to the overall project manager and responsibilities will be concentrated on the technical aspects of the project.

Responsibilities & Essential Functions include:

• Support Project Managers in preparing feasibility studies and in the engineering efforts of various projects.
• Complete design reviews and technical interactions with third party engineering companies as part of the project team (this will include interaction with Buckeye's Central Engineering Department, Buckeye Subject Matter Experts, and other teams within Buckeye).
• Work with both Commercial and Operational stakeholders to evaluate and obtain approval of project scopes, budgets, and/or schedules.
• Support development of project scopes of work, cost estimates, schedules, work plans, and resource requirements (i.e., personnel, contractors, etc.) as part of the initiation and planning phases (i.e., prior to AFE approval) of the project life cycle.
• Plan and organize critical activities including downtime, startup and commissioning with various stakeholders.
• Follows through to ensure that Operations achieves a successful project startup, and that any project-related action items are completed
• Ensure projects adhere to pertinent Buckeye engineering standards and industry standards.
• Assist with development and application of new project management, project engineering and technical procedures and templates.
• Assist with closing projects per guidelines, and ensures proper documentation of files, records, databases, and drawings to meet regulatory and Buckeye requirements.
• Complete lessons learned reviews for completed projects to improve work practices.
• Provide required input to all other terminal and pipeline-related specifications and technical documentation.
• And other duties as assigned.

Position Requirements:

• Education: Bachelor's Degree in an Engineering disciple from an ABET accredited school
• Proficient in using Microsoft Office
• Travel Requirements: Travel varies from 25% to 50%

Certificates & Licenses:

• EIT registration desirable

Other Skills, Attributes and Abilities:

• To succeed in this position, one must be a self-starter and have excellent communication, negotiating and analytical skills and the ability to interact with a wide variety of personnel and organizations
• Must have the ability to maintain and establish positive working relationships with all company departments
• Must have the ability to work in a fast paced, high impact environment to effectively handle the multiple responsibilities of the job

Physical & Safety Requirements:

• Normal office environment
• Travel involved to field facilities for investigative purposes, and for equipment and system commissioning. Field travel involves ambulatory activity and visual information gathering.

About You:

To be successful in the Buckeye culture, our employees must possess excellent communication skills, both written and verbal. You will need to work both collaboratively with a team and independently per task. You must also be able to exercise tact, discretion, integrity, and professionalism when dealing with internal clients and external counterparties (customers, vendors, etc.), as well as when handling sensitive and confidential information.

Buckeye Partners wants to create and reward an organizational focus that stimulates the creative and entrepreneurial actions of our employees and results in innovative ways of reducing costs, generating revenues, improving productivity, and improving processes.

About Us:

Buckeye Partners is the logistical solutions partner of choice for the global energy business. As one of the nation's largest independent petroleum products common carrier pipeline network providers, Buckeye Partners L.P. provides terminals, storage, and refined product distribution services; our strength is to create centers of expertise around our products, technologies and client needs.

Buckeye Partners owns and operates a diversified global network of integrated assets providing midstream infrastructures and logistic solutions, including over 135 liquid petroleum products terminals with an aggregate tank capacity of approximately 130 million barrels.

In addition to its pipeline and terminal operations, Buckeye invests in energy transition initiatives and decarbonization efforts and provides merchant services at several of its major facilities.

Buckeye Partners, L.P. headquartered in Houston, Texas is one of the primary distributors of petroleum in the eastern, south-eastern, and mid-western portions of the United States.

People First Culture:

From managing over 5,000 miles of pipeline to commercializing clean energy projects, our people collaborate to provide world-class service and meet the changing energy needs of our customers. Our employee-first culture means that we invest in our employees and equip them to be fully contributing members of high performing teams. We are focused on collaboration, inclusion, empowerment, accountability, and professional development. We want the best in you to bring out the best in us.

Join us as we work together to build a business that is responsive to the needs of the future while continuing to serve the energy needs of communities today.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR c)