Contact Engineer - Primary Extraction

Joining Suncor means you will work for one of the best companies in Canada, providing tremendous future potential where talented people thrive and lead. As our business evolves, so do our employment opportunities. Our work culture includes a dynamic mix of professionals, with a diversity of skills and expertise.

Minimum Requirements:

• 5 years of experience in an operating plant

• Bachelor degree in chemical or process engineering

• Registered as a Professional Engineer with the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Alberta (APEGA)

• Prior experience facilitating risk assessment, and hazard and operability studies (HAZOP) is an asset

• Familiar with P&ID's, process flow diagrams, and other process related documentation

• Knowledge of fluid hydraulic calculations

• Knowledge of the business drivers for thermal heavy oil operations, operation of fired heater, oil separation and water treatment equipment is an asset
   

Key Accountabilities:

• Support expense projects and process changes, monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) and provide support to ensure that operational targets are met, required corrective actions are communicated and perform effective follow ups

• Perform technical investigations and root cause analysis and provide technical feedback and recommendations to return the plant to normal operation after upsets

• Perform required studies, problem definitions, and calculations for plant optimization

• Develop tools to improve both process and equipment monitoring and performance projection

• Perform calculations to identify required process conditions, production loss, emission spills and required chemicals

• Compare existing plant operating conditions against design conditions

• Provide technical support for tasks such as: regulatory reporting, operational procedure reviews, management of change (MOC) execution, risk reviews, bottleneck identification and plant turnarounds

• Support continuous improvement efforts through stewardship of the MOC process among the process engineering discipline

• Handle development and maintenance of living process engineering documents and tools such as; piping and instrumentation diagrams ((P&ID), specs and targets, safe operating limits, and heat and material balance

• The shift schedule is a 7 days on / 7 days off rotation; 12-hour shifts

• You will work out of our camp-based Fort Hills mining site, located in Alberta’s Athabasca region, 90 kilometers' north of Fort McMurray, Alberta on a FIFO (Fly-in Fly-out) from Calgary or Edmonton or BIBO (Bus-in-Bus-out) for Fort McMurray residents.

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