Occidental strives to attract and retain talented employees by investing in their professional development and providing rewarding opportunities for personal growth. Our goal is to meet the highest employer standards by ensuring the health and safety of our employees, protecting the environment, and positively impacting our communities where we do business. We are currently looking for experienced, motivated, and creative individuals to fill a Facilities Engineer in our US Onshore Resources & Carbon Management (ORCM), Midland Basin Business Unit based in Houston, TX.
This business unit’s objective is to grow production by developing new fields with an emphasis on unconventional reservoirs. The successful candidate will work within a multi-disciplinary asset team which includes production engineers, facilities engineers, reservoir engineers and operations personnel to help deliver business unit targets. Primary responsibility is to optimize oil and gas production at the well and field level. The successful candidate will demonstrate creativity, motivation, and teamwork necessary to challenge and optimize well performance potential and current field operation practices. Additional cross-functional team support and collaboration will include Planning, Land, Finance, Production Revenue & Accounting, Drilling, Completion, Facilities, Asset Operations, Well Analysis & Design, Reserves, Midstream, and Supply Chain.
Responsibilities:
- Accountable for project execution from inception to completion, including pipelines, compressor stations, pumping stations, and oil/water/gas separation, conditioning, and processing facilities.
- Manage and coordinate project approval, engineering design, procurement, construction, and be on site for commissioning/startup
- Solicit project requirements from stakeholders and develop project basis of design to meet requirements
- Develop the facilities materials and design that best support the Asset team including timely reviews with stakeholders
- Develop or support standard designs for common infrastructure to benefit the organization.
- Recommend system upgrades/retrofits/adjustments to reduce operating costs and improve efficiency.
- Drive initiatives for OPEX reduction and facilities optimization.
- Conduct root cause failure analyses and implement preventive measures.
- Communicate with external and internal stakeholders as needed
- Request assistance from, and provide information to support groups (Electrical/Automation/IT) to implement entire project design
- Support development of facilities standards that would benefit the entire organization
- Support and maintain Facilities performance reporting and facilities Project KPIs
- Project tracking and reporting as needed by Asset team
- Perform project cost management
- Project VOW reporting
- Ensure all basis of design incorporate latest HSE compliance, standards and recommended practices
- Prepare cost estimates, economic analyses, procedures, and AFEs for optimization projects as needed.
- Prepare clear, technically supported memos, recommendations, and reports.
- Participate in or coordinate HAZIDS, HAZOPS, PSSRs, and PHAs.
- Mentor early career engineers and interns.
- Manage contract engineering services
- Provide HES leadership