Remote Control Room Operator - Oil & Gas Production

Danos, LLC; Houston (TX); Remote; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Danos, LLC seeks a control room operator to remotely monitor and support oil and gas production from a centralized control room in Houston. You will monitor field equipment, alarms, and operating parameters via SCADA and other systems to help keep operations safe, reliable, and efficient.

The role requires coordinating with field personnel, maintenance, safety, and engineering, responding to alarms, and providing real-time analysis of production data to optimize performance.

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.

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

Skills

Strong troubleshooting

Communication skills

Alarm and data interpretation

Tools

SCADA

HMI

Production monitoring systems

Job description

Danos, LLC seeks a control room operator to remotely monitor and support oil and gas production from a centralized control room in Houston. You will monitor field equipment, alarms, and operating parameters via SCADA and other systems to help keep operations safe, reliable, and efficient.

The role requires coordinating with field personnel, maintenance, safety, and engineering, responding to alarms, and providing real-time analysis of production data to optimize performance.