Field Operations Engineer

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Shell

Field Operations Engineer

in

San Francisco

California

California, United States of America

Job Family Group:

Commercial and Retail

Worker Type:

Regular

Posting Start Date:

February 23, 2022

Business unit:

Integrated Gas

Experience Level:

Experienced Professionals

Job Description:

Field Operations Engineer

The purpose of this role is to provide technical and engineering services to Shell’s Hydrogen Refueling Stations in the Sacramento area. These stations receive, store, compress and dispense hydrogen. You will be responsible for the safe running of these assets and to ensure they stay available.

If you are highly ambitious and safety-conscious, and if you can thrive in complex and uncertain situations, then you are the perfect match for this role. We can bring your career to greater heights by helping you grow in a business that encourages both personal and professional development and by broadening your exposure to some of the most ground-breaking projects in the industry.

Expect lots of support and encouragement while you’re here. You’ll be working alongside passionate people who love what they do and enjoy sharing their enthusiasm with everyone around them. We value career growth. You’ll have limitless opportunities to explore—whether that means building up new areas of expertise or taking your career in a different direction.

Where would you fit in

As the world gravitates toward greener mobility and zero emissions transportation, Shell Energy Marketing works on several fronts to provide customers with various choices that will reduce their mobility carbon footprint.

Shell Hydrogen Mobility is a rapidly growing business in Shell and requires structured operations and maintenance excellence to ensure safe, reliable, and cost-effective, low-margin operations at scale. The Hydrogen Mobility Operations team manages Hydrogen refueling stations for serving Fuel Cell Electric Vehicles (passenger cars, busses and trucks). The business is also planning to rapidly expand its portfolio of stations in Canada, China and Asia Pacific, especially as government legislation mandates targets for decarbonization in the transportation sector.

The global operations team loves learning, being committed to improvements and is highly motivated to deliver the O&M philosophy with the focus on operation excellence with outstanding customer experience.

What is the role?

Working under the direction of the Hydrogen Operations Team Lead US you are accountable for:

Station Availability

Provide rapid response to station trips (shutdowns); ability to solve malfunctions common to a Hydrogen Refueling Station

Monitor Human Machine Interface (HMI) of supply, storage, compression, chiller and dispenser units and troubleshoot process problems

Hands on supervision of technicians during preventive and corrective maintenance

Support Hydrogen delivery to these stations by ensuring the station is ready for a delivery and be available throughout the delivery process to assist if needed

Operations & Maintenance

Provide operational support for upgrades and reliability improvements to asset

Provide superior customer experience by enlightening customers on the basics of a station operation

Support operations of Sacramento area stations incl. trouble shooting / Root Cause Analysis studies to eliminate failures and technical issues

Manage equipment vendor technicians

Execute implementation of monitoring tools

Execute proactive technical monitoring

Follow & Drive Ensure Safe Production philosophy

Work preparation, coordination and supervision of maintenance activities and temporary repairs

Support deployment of inspection / maintenance plans and drive execution of both

Assist in the development and implementation of a Growth Reliability Program with focus to increase reliability, availability, and efficiency of the hydrogen assets

Develop and deliver relevant operations and maintenance manuals

Execute operations requirements in GSAP

Operational Engineering

Field verify latest revision of all drawings in use to ensure they are complete, accurate and evergreen

Support P&ID reviews, Desktop Safety Reviews (DSR), HAZOPs, HAZIDs and Pre-Start-up Safety Reviews of various equipment suppliers out of an operational perspective

Support evaluation of vendor documentation, identify gaps and drive improvement process to meet Shell standards

Support development Process control diagrams / narratives

Operational safety

Support the Hydrogen HSSE Team by giving input to the development of HSSE assurance processes, deploy it across all Shell Hydrogen assets, projects and contractors working on behalf of Shell and to non - operated JV

Ensure all Shell staff and contractors comply with the Shell HSSE policies, Life Saving Rules, and the Shell HSSE Control Framework

Work with PTW custodian – follow Shell´s PTW process incl. JHA and LOTO

Operational support for plant changes by following the Management of Change process

Support delivery of HSSE audits of operational assets (internal and external audits)

What we need from you

Naturally, we see you as a good team player and communicator, with demonstrated experience supporting Hydrogen Refueling Infrastructure. Your people skills will mean you’ll easily nurture strong relationships, using your strong influencing skills to challenge where necessary. Alongside your broad understanding of the Fuel Cell and Hydrogen Mobility industry, you will thrive in a fast-paced operation and enjoy building and maintaining strong stakeholder engagement.

Beyond that we would ideally like to see as many of the following within your application:

Must have legal authorization to work in the US on a full-time basis for anyone other than current employer.

Candidate must have a minimum of five (5) years working as an Operations Support Engineer, Field Engineer or Technician in an industrial/manufacturing environment.

Substantial experience working with high pressure gasses is preferred

Substantial Hydrogen Refueling Station experience is a plus.

BS Degree in related Engineering discipline or equivalent is required.

Good understanding of Causal Learning and/or equivalent root cause analysis methodology

Sound working knowledge of end-to-end operational aspects of assets, including HSSE and process safety.

Deep experience and competence in engineering and asset management,

Experience in development of process control & automatization

Skill in turnaround and project support

Skill in coordination of maintenance planning & execution

Skill in safe isolation / LOTO process

Experience in deployment of inspection / maintenance plans

Capability to identify design improvement opportunities of operational equipment and drive structured gap closure plan

Skill in Management of Change process

Familiarity with reliability concepts and demonstrated experience in improving reliability at a business unit level.

Demonstrated skill at delivery through influencing without direct authority, demonstrating Partnering for Performance and Goal Zero through Safety Leadership mentalities.

A strong competence to manage business performance

Excellent communication, stakeholder and change management skills.

Additional Information

Able to tend to emergencies. Successful candidate must be able to respond to emergencies at the Sacramento and Citrus Heights stations within 2 hrs. Relocation will be assisted by Shell.

Must be very flexible to work rotating shifts, afterhours, and weekends when the need arises.

Able to climb ladders and stairs, work at heights and in confined spaces and lift 20 kg from ground to waist level

Able to work alone, at night

Position will require travel and flexibility in working hours to manage communications across time zones in order to influence and support stakeholders and enable business performance. However, flexibility in recognition of diverse family situations will be considered.

Work together with stakeholders that have little to no experience with Hydrogen Mobility

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According to the United Nations, the global population could increase to more than 10 billion people. A key role for society – and for Shell – is to find ways to meet the growing demand for energy, with less carbon emissions. We need people who dare to think differently – to take part in developing tomorrow’s energy solutions today.

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