Job ID: 12615
Location: The Woodlands, Texas
Category: IT
Employment Type: Direct Hire
Date Added: 11/03/2026
Job Description
Location: The Woodlands, Tx
Description:
The Applications Engineer will be proficient at providing engineering and design of oil and gas production equipment for upstream and midstream applications with emphasis on upstream facilities. The candidate must have experience related to production equipment design, selection of equipment, operations and construction of this type of equipment or facilities. Capable of proposal preparation including review of customer requirements and specifications, process or systems design, flow diagrams, P&ID’s, and equipment selection. The engineer determines functionality and design to provide the best and most cost-effective engineering to meet the customer’s requirements. Develops designs for natural gas, crude oil and intermediate liquids production equipment and related facilities. Effective communicator works with sales, manufacturing, applications teams and customers to present company solutions.
Reporting to the Engineering Manager, the Applications Engineer’s duties are as follows:
Job Description:
- Ensures bid proposals are effectively engineered, provides drawings, P&ID’s and BOM’s to internal and external customers according to bid requests.
- Works with the designers to assure that the drafting requirements and design intent of the project are met. Must work closely with each of our manufacturing teams and facilities.
- Assists and mentors applications engineers on technical issues related to preparation of proposals, evaluates equipment performance to assure the best application is met.
- Obtains and evaluates major equipment vendor quotations and assists estimating with other costs that may be of difficulty to obtain.
- Reviews estimates, prepares final proposals and provides technical information to sales team.
- Assures timely engineering effort is maintained by performing proposal project engineering functions including vendor inquiry preparation, vendor bid analysis and vendor selection, preparation of process and auxiliary system process and mechanical flow diagrams.
- Provides Engineering calculations for flow rates, piping sizes for all systems, hydraulic level specifications, retention and settling times, heat duty requirements, prepares ASME code calculations for process pressure vessels, constructs project bills of material,
- Provides Engineering to evaluate customer bid drawings for technical and commercial content, supports each facility fabrication and shop questions during assembly of equipment.
- Maintains proposal work schedule to insure coordination of all aspects of engineering and design work to ensure timely proposal completion.
- Coordinates all aspects of customer content changes during proposal phase and fabrication by evaluating effect of change, selecting additional scope and preparing pricing.
- Works closely with Project Engineers or Project Managers assigned to the project upon award to ensure there is a clear scope of supply and well defined design parameters.
- Works with manufacturing during fabrication and provides support for field personnel during on site field check outs and commissioning of equipment.
- Confers with manufacturing and drafting to prepare design modifications as required.
- Assists in resolution of field problems and warranty claims, assesses field and shop recommendations on unit design, and participates in implementing efficient corrections that reduce operational problems.
- Includes minor travel requirements to ensure coordination and communication of project requirements
- Should have academic background of courses and experience such as design of natural gas dehydration systems (absorbers/reboilers), separators, filter separators and coalescers, line heaters, fuel gas filters, skimmers, knockouts, JT plants, stabilizers, heater treaters, heated separators and miscellaneous upstream equipment.
- Familiar with Upstream and Midstream customer equipment and design specifications for domestic onshore, offshore, Gulf of Mexico and international applications.
- Essential knowledge of customer and industry specifications such as ASME Code Section VIII Div. 1, ASME Section II, AWS D1.1, ANSI B31.3, B31.8, B16.5, B16.11, NACE MR-0175 ISO 15156, API Guidelines 14C, 14E, 12J, 12 GDU, 12K, 520, 521 etc
- Bachelor’s degree from a four-year college or university, preferably in Chemical, Petroleum, Mechanical Engineering or experience in related field.
- Eight to ten years engineering and design experience with gas and liquids production equipment and facilities including: Oil & Gas Separators, Oil & Gas Dehydration, Glycol Regeneration, ASME pressure vessel code and calculations of and/or training.
- Must be able to work in a fast-paced environment under pressure
- Must be able to work with the team in developing improved work processes for the department
