Control Room Operator

Danos; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Danos in Houston seeks a control room operator to remotely monitor oil and gas production from a centralized center. You will track field equipment, production conditions, alarms, and operating parameters to help keep facilities safe, reliable, and efficient.

You will work 12‑hour shifts on onshore sites, coordinate with field personnel and engineering teams, analyze real‑time production data, dispatch precise responses to alarms, and maintain an online production database to support daily

Qualifications

• Experience in oil and gas production operations or ROC/control room environments.
• Ability to interpret alarms and production data for abnormal conditions.
• Strong troubleshooting and communication skills; ability to work with cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Monitor field equipment, alarms, and operating parameters from the central control room.
• Dispatch appropriate responses to field alarms and coordinate remote and onsite actions.
• Collaborate with field personnel, engineering, and HSSE to optimize production and safety.
• Maintain an online production database and analyze production variance data.

Skills

Oil & gas production experience

SCADA/HMI knowledge

Production data interpretation

Troubleshooting

Communication skills

Tools

SCADA systems

HMI interfaces

Production monitoring tools

Job description

Overview

Responsible for remotely monitoring and supporting oil and gas production operations from a centralized control room. This position monitors field equipment, production conditions, alarms, and operating parameters through SCADA and other control systems to help maintain safe, reliable, and efficient operations.

Responsibilities

• Following through on commitments, sharing openly & accurately, leaving it better than found, leaning into challenges, bolstering support or coworkers, considering implications, offering solutions, stepping up and leading, never settling for good enough, and embracing new opportunities
• Safe and consistent, 12-hour shift operations of all Onshore central facilities and well assets, including downstream pressures
• Controls and monitors all facility activities and communicates / dispatches urgent matters as needed.
• Main point of contact between field personnel, management, safety, environmental, first responders, and engineering; ensuring safe, uninterrupted, and optimized business operations.
• Production performance metric monitoring & live production process optimization
• Real-time monitoring & dispatch of appropriate responses to field alarms while effectively evaluating & analyzing the root cause. Will require both remote capabilities and coordinate of field employees to achieve
• Coordinates responses for the Field Operations execution team, responding to inquiries, field support requirements, safety, and production upsets
• Analyzes, interprets, and validates production variance report (PVR) of field data including downtime coding, flare venting, and fluid inventories
• Maintains an intricate online production database
• Builds collaborative relationships and actively engages with internal stakeholders, including Production Accounting, Engineering, Marketing and HSSE, for the purpose of analyzing daily/weekly outputs against set metrics
• Priority based production model function and decision-making skills

Qualifications

• Previous oil & gas production, lease operations, control room, or ROC experience required.
• Experience with SCADA, HMI, or production monitoring systems.
• Understanding of oil & gas production equipment such as separators, compressors, pumps, tanks, valves, and wellheads.
• Ability to interpret alarms and production data and recognize abnormal operating conditions.
• Strong troubleshooting and communication skills.
• Must meet conditional job offer requirements.