Field Operations Specialist: Workover & Completion

oxy; Carlsbad (NM); On-site; USD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Oxy is seeking a Workover & Completions Specialist to provide technical and operational support for well servicing, workover, completion, and intervention activities. You will coordinate crews, manage contractors, and ensure safe, cost-effective execution with a focus on well integrity and production objectives.

You will work with engineering, field operations, and service providers to plan, execute, and hand over projects, continuously improving safety, efficiency, and performance in a dynamic

Qualifications

• Extensive field experience in workover, completions, well servicing, production operations, or well intervention.
• Strong understanding of well integrity and safe well-servicing practices.
• Ability to read and interpret well schematics, completion programs, equipment specifications, and operating procedures.
• Experience coordinating multiple contractors during active well operations.
• Strong organizational, communication, leadership, and decision-making skills.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate and oversee daily workover, completion, well intervention, and remedial operations.
• Provide field-level technical support from initial job planning through execution and final well handover.
• Review workover and completion programs and ensure field activities are executed per the approved program.
• Support operations involving tubing, casing, artificial lift, fishing, milling, cleanouts, stimulation, wireline, coiled tubing, pressure control, and well integrity.
• Troubleshoot downhole and surface operational problems and develop practical solutions with engineering/service providers.
• Coordinate rig crews, third-party service companies, equipment, materials, and logistics for well operations.
• Monitor daily operations and identify opportunities to improve safety, efficiency, reliability, and cost performance.
• Participate in pre-job planning, risk assessments, safety meetings, and operational reviews.
• Maintain strong communication between field personnel, engineering, production operations, leadership, and contractors.
• Identify opportunities to reduce nonproductive time and improve rig/service-delivery performance.
• Promote a strong field safety culture with emphasis on hazard identification and disciplined execution.

Skills

Field experience

Troubleshooting

Operations coordination

Leadership

Communication

Reading schematics

Safety culture

Tools

Fishing tools

Tubing operations

Artificial lift

Coiled tubing

Pressure-control equipment

Well schematics

Job description

Oxy is seeking a Workover & Completions Specialist to provide technical and operational support for well servicing, workover, completion, and intervention activities. You will coordinate crews, manage contractors, and ensure safe, cost-effective execution with a focus on well integrity and production objectives.

You will work with engineering, field operations, and service providers to plan, execute, and hand over projects, continuously improving safety, efficiency, and performance in a dynamic