Job Description
CSI Recruiting is working with a growing, privately-held E&P firm, assisting in their search for an experienced Senior Production Engineer. This Production Engineer will work on a small team of Production and Operations Engineers, reporting to a working Production Engineering Manager within the Fort Worth office. Ideal candidates will have experience working as a Production / Operations Engineer within an active operating company, preferably focused on unconventional, onshore assets.
The Senior Production Engineer role will be responsible for managing and optimizing both our operated and non-operated wells in Texas. These activities include but are not limited to proactively maintaining base production, well surveillance, optimization of underperforming well(s), designing well intervention plans and monitoring execution by operations team, and building analytical models to troubleshoot and understand performance behavior(s). The production engineer will work with the operations and reservoir teams to implement automation, reduce downtime, reduce LOE, and optimize field-wide operating parameters (i.e. system pressure, compressors, facilities, etc.).
Frequent work with interdisciplinary teams to build and maintain production and financial dashboards, as wells as budgeting, designing, and implementing technical studies, and frequent communication and collaboration with our JV partner and investors. The Senior Production Engineer will also be required report weekly production actuals and forecasts, and train and or mentor interns and secondees.
Requirements
RESPONSIBILITIES:
MANAGE BASE PRODUCTION OF BOTH OPERATED AND NONOPERATED ASSETS:
Surveillance :

• Know production, production targets, and all downtime events
• Diagnose and optimize production - productivity, flow string, plunger-lift, EOT, treatments, inspections, pressure differential reductions, compression, automation, etc.
• Ensure production data quality
• Communicate and review with field personnel

Cost-track and track project progress, communicate and approve scope changes
Perform lookback analyses, present results
Reduce Downtime:

• Identify and manage sources of downtime - keeping excellent downtime records and reviewing frequently
• Develop automated diagnostics to find "bad actors" and bottlenecks
• Actively search for ways to mitigate downtime, increase redundancy, etc.
• Understand gathering side of downtime and help coordinate SIMOPs, coordinate and communicate upcoming downtime events, evaluate gatherer unscheduled downtime and mitigate as possible

Reduce LOE:

• Identify sources and activities of high LOE
• Manage the balance of well performance vs LOE
• Identify projects to lower LOE, prioritize, plan and execute with assistance of other functions
• Stay abreast of all existing and emerging technology(ies)

COLLABORATE AND COMMUNICATE:
Asset Team :

• Work together with team to outperform as a collective, not lone wolf
• Open-minded to evaluate all options
• Educate and get buy-in from stakeholders

JV Partners :

• Collaborate with partner to optimize production and completions design
• Knowledge sharing

OPPORTUNITY GENERATION:

• Identify, priority, plan/design and execute projects
• Structured workflow to identify, prioritize, design/plan, and execute projects
• Write/work-up procedures for projects (i.e. workovers, wireline, etc.)
• Clear documentation, follow proper technical review, follow approval processes, consult/inform appropriate functions

QUALIFICATIONS AND SKILLS:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering required, with a strong preference for Petroleum Engineering or Mechanical Engineering
• At least a combined 8 years of production engineering and operational experience in unconventional resource plays.
• Possess a strong fundamental knowledge of productions engineering and operations experience
• Experience working on multi-discipline teams and the ability to integrate across functions
• Experience in building reports and dashboards
• Strong communication skills both oral and written, able to adjust his content and style for the type of audience being presented to
• Experience in a fast-paced, dynamic environment is a plus