Senior Petroleum Engineer

PO&G Resources, LP; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401k Matching

Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance

Flexible Spending Account

Company-paid Life Insurance

Paid Time Off

Job summary

PO&G Resources, LP is seeking a Senior Operations Engineer to oversee well operations and optimize production at their Houston headquarters. The role involves monitoring production, managing field personnel, and coordinating with various departments to meet production targets. Ideal candidates will have a B.S. in Petroleum or Mechanical Engineering and a minimum of 7 years of oil and gas experience.

Benefits include 401k matching, medical insurance, and paid time off.

Qualifications

• Minimum 7 years of oil and gas experience required.
• Strong ability to prepare complex engineering calculations.
• Must have the right to work in the U.S. without sponsorship.

Responsibilities

• Monitor lease production and optimize operations.
• Manage field personnel to maximize cash flow and value.
• Coordinate with various departments to achieve production targets.

Skills

Problem-solving skills

Leadership skills

Analytical ability

Communication skills

Ability to work independently

Education

B.S. in Petroleum/Mechanical Engineering

Job description

PO&G Resources is a rapidly growing, twenty-seven year-old private oil and gas company located in the Galleria/Uptown area of Houston. With the ongoing expansion of our operations across multiple areas in the U.S., the company is seeking a key individual to fill the position of Senior Operations Engineer.

Basic Function

This position will be located at the company’s Houston headquarters and will be responsible for engineering, monitoring, and optimizing well operations to ensure efficient production while maintaining safety, regulatory, and environmental compliance.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Monitoring lease production.
• Identifying, diagnosing, and remedying issues affecting production levels.
• Preparing well and lease level economic evaluations.
• Analyzing pumping unit rod string designs utilizing the S Rod design program.
• Develop projects to increase production and enhance field operations.
• Monthly trips to field locations to optimize operations and regularly meet with field personnel.
• Managing field personnel to maximize the cash flow and value of our oil and gas assets while ensuring our operations are conducted in a safe and environmentally sound manner.
• Mutually develop with management, production targets and actively monitor actual production to aggressively undertake corrective actions as warranted to ensure consistent production twenty‑four hours a day, seven days a week.
• Coordinate with Accounting, Business Development, and Land departments as required.
• Working with a team of field personnel to:
  • Provide strategic, technical, and operational perspective to the team.
  • Establish individual property level cash flow budgets. Communicate with field staff to achieve property level production, expense, cash flow, and other goals and objectives.
  • Mutually develop with management cost targets and actively monitor actual costs to aggressively undertake corrective actions as warranted.
• Identify, evaluate, recommend, and execute opportunities to maximize value through well reactivations, artificial lift enhancements, waterflood optimizations, battery and SWD consolidations, etc.
• Identify, evaluate, recommend, and execute capital investment projects such as injection well conversions, recompletions, new drilling, etc.
• Develop procedures to maximize value of existing and acquired properties by identifying and executing a three‑pronged strategy of operating costs reductions, production enhancements, and capex program.

Location

Position will be located in the company’s Houston headquarters office.

Qualifications

• B.S. in Petroleum/Mechanical Engineering
• Minimum 7 years experience
• Oil and gas experience required

Skills and Competencies

• Represent company in a positive, professional manner at all times and in all interactions
• Possess strong problem‑solving skills
• Accountable for actions and results
• Ability to communicate professionally and effectively with internal and external customers
• Demonstrate strong leadership skills and good management practices
• Ability to act with a high degree of independence
• Analytical, quick‑thinking ability to review complex problems and propose effective solutions
• Strong ability to prepare and review complex engineering calculations and analyses
• Self‑motivated with a high level of individual initiative
• Must have the right to work and remain in the United States without sponsorship
• Periodic off‑hours required to respond to field issues
• Successful candidate must be willing to submit to a background check and drug screen
• Salary commensurate with experience and education

Benefits

• 401k Matching
• Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
• Flexible Spending Account
• Company‑paid Life Insurance
• Paid Time Off