Senior Production Engineer

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The Senior Production Engineer, working under limited supervision, is responsible for performing business planning, well performance monitoring, project management, and opportunity exploitation associated with managing the performance and growth of assets for complex production projects. The role drives continuous improvement initiatives and implements ongoing improvement strategies to optimize production operations. The role focuses on safety, environmental stewardship, and operational excellence, to contribute to the success of the organization's production activities. The role contributes to field development planning efforts, ensuring optimal well placement and production infrastructure design. The role is pivotal in monitoring well performance, implementing production enhancement techniques, and managing production assets to maximize hydrocarbon recovery.

• Provides technical recommendations and support for the operation of onshore oil and gas leases and wells to produce the highest profitable volumes of oil and gas.
• Builds technical recommendations and provides business case to leadership in a concise, constructive, knowledgeable format that includes detailed implications for risk, business priorities, and value, integrates multi-discipline knowledge in technical recommendations, and may communicate technical recommendations to leadership.
• Monitors operating expenses to identify and control high cost areas to maintain lifting cost at the optimal level and prepares annual volume and expense budgets.
• Monitors well tests and production volumes to maintain and improve production.
• Utilizes knowledge and skills as a substantial contributor to a variety of complex issues/projects, leads concurrent efforts, mentors others, and influences safety culture, emphasizing EHS priorities and sound technical judgment.
• Interacts daily with production foremen, pumpers, and service companies and ensures that field operations are being conducted in compliance with all applicable state/province and federal laws and regulations.
• Prepares authorizations for expenditures and procedures for the production portion of new well construction (flowback, tube-ups) as well as remedial well work.
• Establishes effective relationships, influences at all levels, mentors on collaboration, and contributes innovative solutions, leveraging an inclusive mindset and diverse expertise.
• Organizes and completes multiple concurrent projects, prioritizes deadlines, and communicates effectively, demonstrating autonomy in decision-making and providing strategic technical recommendations to leadership.
• Identifies opportunities for process improvement and implements best practices to enhance production efficiency, safety, and cost-effectiveness.
• Contributes to field development planning efforts by providing technical input on well placement, spacing, artificial lift strategies, and production infrastructure design.

Education:
• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering or any other related discipline and/or commensurate work experience is required.

Experience:
• 5+ years of relevant industry experience, preferably in Production Engineering. • Artificial lift design and optimization experience is required – preferably Gas Lift, Plunger Lift, and Plunger-Assisted Gas Lift

• Experience with tools such as Spotfire, PowerBI, PiVision, and large language models is preferred.

Competencies:
• Stakeholder Relationships
• Oral & Written Communication
• Results Oriented
• Active Learning
• Digital Literacy

Skills:
• Production Operations
• Documentation Preparation
• Operational Efficiency
• Cost Management
• Regulatory Knowledge
• Business Planning
• Budget Preparation
• Well Monitoring
• Well Analysis

Qualified applicants are considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, status as a protected veteran or other characteristics protected by law.

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