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Surge Energy America · 14 hours ago

Production Engineer

Houston, TX

Full-time

Hybrid

Senior Level

5+ years exp

Surge Energy America is looking for a Production Engineer to provide engineering, technical, and operational support to maximize profitability in production operations. The role involves optimizing facility performance, mentoring other engineers, and collaborating with various teams to implement projects that enhance operational effectiveness.

Energy

Responsibilities

Perform engineering studies and develop opportunities to optimize facility and well performance, maximize oil recovery and reduce costs (debottlenecking, well interventions, well optimization, stimulation, chemical programs, etc.)

Develop and maintain the Surge production engineering and operations process framework to be utilized when integrating new wells and assets into the Surge portfolio. This includes, but is not limited to, production monitoring and surveillance, downtime analysis, standard operating procedures, data capture and management, metrics, failure analysis, artificial lift selection, well stimulation and optimization, etc

Mentor, provide functional guidance regarding engineering design, risk assessment, procurement, operability assurance, and project cost and schedule estimating, tracking and forecasting

Design and execute projects from authorization through overseeing field implementation

Troubleshoot well productivity issues and equipment upsets or failures

Provide real time support to the Production Operations Team in all aspects of production management, base production optimization, well remedial and workovers

Participate in planning and coordination of efforts in support of the Asset Team and other departments

Manage the portfolio of well and facility base capital projects within budgets and schedule goals set by the asset team

Ensure that designs meet applicable engineering standards and governmental regulations, and that appropriate operational input is incorporated into the designs

Work collaboratively with fellow Production Engineers to provide real-time support to the Production Operations Team in all aspects of production management and optimization

Provide production-related training programs, training and mentorship to engineers and operations personnel

Assist operations management in the preparation, planning and execution of the surface and downhole annual budgets and long-range plans

Assist HSE and operations management to ensure compliance with production-related laws and regulations

Qualification

Production engineering designProduction operations supportArtificial lift methodsWell stimulationCompletionsProduction data analyticsMicrosoft OfficeCommunication skillsTeamworkLeadership experience

Required

Bachelor's degree in Engineering

5+ years direct experience in production engineering design, standards, and codes, production operations support, engineering principles and practices, and business analysis

Experience working on Permian Basin horizontal well production design, well stimulation and completions

Proficient in Microsoft Office, Spotfire, Cygnet, XSPOC and production data analytics and data base applications

Legally authorized to work in the United States

Valid driver's license

Preferred

8+ years of production engineering, operations, or team lead experience within the upstream oil and gas industry

Experience with defect elimination, artificial lift failure analysis, risk management and safe well work practices

Significant experience with artificial lift selection, design and specification, with a focus on ESP and Rod Pumping, and basic knowledge in other artificial lift techniques

Working knowledge of various computer and data tools including production data bases, well file data bases, artificial lift analysis, nodal analysis, etc

Team lead, supervisory and/or leadership experience