Hydraulics & Capacity Technologist​/Engineer

Overview

At South Bow, we do one thing, and we do it well: safely moving oil between some of the world’s most critical markets. We’re building our high-performing team with versatile thinkers who thrive on solving big challenges together. If you’re ready for a position where your skills are highly valued and your work is incredibly important, we want to meet you.

Bring your talents to a new streamlined energy company, dedicated to operational, commercial and safety excellence as we pursue our critical purpose of delivering the energy people need.

We are seeking a Hydraulics and Capacity Engineer or Technologist to support operational capacity management for South Bow’s crude oil pipelines. This role requires an advanced ability to collaborate with and influence decisions with multiple stakeholders including Scheduling, Control Center, Work Management, Field Operations, Asset Management, SCADA, and Engineering teams. The successful candidate will manage the monthly capacity of South Bow’s assets while minimizing operating costs.

• Understand and manage the capacity and variable operating costs of our pipelines
• Collaborate with the Asset Management and Commercial Operations teams to set/change target rates to ensure monthly commitments are met

• Perform steady-state hydraulic analysis and interface with the Liquids Pipeline Control Centre (LPCC) to ensure Drag Reducing Agent (DRA) injection parameters are optimized
• Review hydraulic bottlenecks and adjustment of the DRA injection coefficients
• Set daily flow rate targets and update throughout the month based on operational and market conditions
• Complete hydraulic analysis for both scheduled maintenance and unscheduled outages to quantify the capacity impact and the cost of mitigation with DRA; make decisions on the path forward by collaborating with internal stakeholders
• Participate in evaluating risk/costs/benefits of taking an unplanned capacity impact
• Assist with monitoring temperature limits on the system to manage stress
• Provide oversight of DRA deliveries to the field

• Key stakeholder during planned pipeline outages – point of contact for coordination with LPCC and Field Operations
• Coordinate the batch requirements and bypass schedules for tool runs with Oil Scheduling
• Review outage plans provided by the Liquids Work Management Team to evaluate opportunities for optimization
• Review and approve Operational Notifications (ON) for outages on the system – communicate requirements to LPCC utilizing the Daily Operations Plan (DOP)

• Assist in preparing monthly available capacity forecasting for the Commercial team before Nominations
• Assist in the preparation and presentation of the monthly updates to the one-year forecast
• Assist in the preparation of the commercial capacity forecast (2-3 year look ahead) during budgetary cycles and variable toll preparation
• Prepare reporting on system performance metrics as required

• 4+ years of related experience in the oil and gas industry
• Technical credentials, one of the following:
  Engineering degree, Bachelor’s (Science, Computer Science, etc.), Engineering Technologist diploma, Bachelor’s in a related field, Journeyperson certification

• General understanding of fluid dynamics/hydraulics
• Experience using Power BI and/or Python
• Registered with APEGA as a Professional Engineer, in good standing
• Demonstrated ability to adapt to a fast-paced work environment with continuously changing priorities
• Excellent interpersonal and written communication skills
• Proven ability to deliver practical technical solutions to complex, ambiguous problems.
• Demonstrated strength in troubleshooting and clearly communicating technical issues to a wide range of stakeholders.
• Self-motivated/results driven mentality

• Have current, valid authorization to travel internationally (including but not limited to Canada, and US)
• Travel to other company locations for temporary assignments, meetings, or training (estimated up to 10% of work schedule)
• Be part of an on-call rotation and provide…