Job Description
Title: Petroleum Engineer - Senior Operations Engineer
Salary: $120,000 - $160,000
Location: Greater Houston, TX
Job Description:
This position will be located at the company's Houston headquarters and will be responsible for engineering, monitoring, and optimizing well operations to ensure efficient production while maintaining safety, regulatory, and environmental compliance.
Roles and Responsibilities include:
- Monitoring lease production.
- Identifying, diagnosing, and remedying issues affecting production levels.
- Preparing well and lease level economic evaluations.
- Analyzing pumping unit rod string designs utilizing the S Rod design program.
- Develop projects to increase production and enhance field operations.
- Monthly trips to field locations to optimize operations and regularly meet with field personnel.
- Managing field personnel to maximize the cash flow and value of our oil and gas assets while ensuring our operations are conducted in a safe and environmentally sound manner.
- Mutually develop with management, production targets and actively monitor actual production to aggressively undertake corrective actions as warranted to ensure consistent production twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week.
- Coordinate with Accounting, Business Development, and Land departments as required.
- Working with a team of field personnel to:
- Provide strategic, technical, and operational perspective to the team.
- Establish individual property level cash flow budgets. Communicate with field staff to achieve property level production, expense, cash flow, and other goals and objectives.
- Mutually develop with management cost targets and actively monitor actual costs to aggressively undertake corrective actions as warranted.
- Identify, evaluate, recommend, and execute opportunities to maximize value through well reactivations, artificial lift enhancements, waterflood optimizations, battery and SWD consolidations, etc.
- Identify, evaluate, recommend, and execute capital investment projects such as injection well conversions, recompletions, new drilling, etc.
- Develop procedures to maximize value of existing and acquired properties by identifying and executing three-pronged strategy of operating costs reductions, production enhancements, and capex program.
Location: Position will be in company's Houston headquarters office located in the galleria.
Qualifications:
- B.S. in Petroleum/Mechanical Engineering
- Minimum 7 year’s experience
- Oil and gas experience required
Skills and Competencies:
- Represent company in a positive, professional manner at all times and in all interactions
- Possess strong problem-solving skills
- Accountable for actions and results
- Ability to communicate professionally and effectively with internal and external customers
- Demonstrate strong leadership skills and good management practices
- Ability to act with a high degree of independence
- Analytical, quick-thinking, ability to review complex problems and propose effective solutions
- Strong ability to prepare and review complex engineering calculations and analyses
- Self-motivated with a high level of individual initiative