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Job Description Job Title: Project Engineering Manager Location: Denver, CO Travel: 25% (field visits to gas processing facilities in the Delaware Basin of West Texas / Southeast New Mexico) About the Role: A large, publicly traded midstream energy company is adding an engineer to the team responsible for its Delaware Basin natural gas processing plants. This person will own capital projects from concept through startup while serving as a go-to technical resource for plant operations. The role blends project leadership, process engineering, and process safety, and is well suited to a chemical engineer who enjoys both the design desk and the plant floor.
What You'll Do: Act as a technical partner to plant operations on troubleshooting, bottleneck removal, efficiency improvements, and maintenance-driven projects Support process safety programs, including PSM requirements, hazard analysis (PHA) sessions, closeout of resulting action items, and DOT pipeline compliance Lead projects across their full life cycle: feasibility studies and early cost estimates for the commercial team, capital authorization requests, detailed design, contractor bidding and oversight, commissioning, as-built documentation, and pre-startup safety reviews Write scopes of work and bid packages for engineering, construction, and commissioning contractors; track budgets and schedules and keep stakeholders updated Build and maintain ProMax simulations and heat and material balances for cryogenic processing, amine treating, and dehydration units, and use them to drive optimization Size and specify process equipment such as separators, filters, tanks, exchangers, fin-fan coolers, pumps, compressors, treaters, and dehydration units; select pipe material, size, and wall thickness; and size relief valves, control valves, and regulators Read, create, and mark up PFDs, P&IDs, plot plans, piping plans, and isometrics; contribute to control narratives and cause-and-effect matrices Review existing facilities on an ongoing basis for opportunities to improve safety, reliability, operating flexibility, and throughput Ensure work complies with company engineering standards and with local, state, and federal safety and environmental requirements Coordinate with safety, environmental, operations, construction, commercial, right-of-way, and outside contractor teams What You Bring: Bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering from an accredited four-year program 3-5 years as a project or process engineer in natural gas processing, construction, or plant operations Working knowledge of midstream gathering and processing: cryogenic plants, compression, glycol dehydration, amine treating, NGL recovery, and condensate stabilization Familiarity with industry codes and regulations such as API, ASME B31.3 / B31.4 / B31.8 and Section VIII, DOT Parts 192 and 195, NFPA, and NACE Strong skills in Excel, Word, and Outlook Clear communicator who works well with field staff, leadership, and outside partners Willing to travel 25% or more; dependable attendance Nice to Have: 5-10 years in gas processing, construction, or operations Acid gas handling and sour service experience ProMax process simulation and pipeline hydraulic modeling Rotating equipment background (compressors, pumps, turboexpanders) Microsoft Project 5 years specifically in project engineering, process engineering, or project management