Control Room Operator

Danos; Houston (TX); Hybrid; USD 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Danos is seeking a control room operator to remotely monitor oil and gas production from a centralized control room in the United States. You will track field conditions, alarms, and process parameters, ensuring safe and efficient operations with SCADA and other control systems.

The role involves 12-hour onshore shift coverage, coordination with field personnel, and collaboration with engineering and HSSE teams to optimize production and respond to incidents promptly.

Qualifications

• Strong troubleshooting and communication skills.
• Ability to interpret alarms and production data.
• Must meet conditional job offer requirements.

Responsibilities

• Remotely monitor and support oil and gas production operations from a centralized control room.
• Safe and consistent, 12-hour shift operations of all onshore facilities and assets.
• Main contact between field personnel, management, safety, and engineering; coordinate responses.
• Monitor production performance metrics and optimize live processes.
• Dispatch appropriate responses to field alarms and analyze root causes.
• Maintain an online production database and collaborate with internal stakeholders.

Tools

SCADA

HMI

Production monitoring

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 coordination 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.