Senior Production Engineer — Data-Driven Asset Optimization

Crescent Energy; Georgia; On-site; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Crescent Energy is seeking a Production Engineer to maximize production, improve reliability, and increase the economic value of Crescent Energy’s producing assets. You will own production performance for an assigned portfolio of wells and work with field operations to identify opportunities and execute solutions.

Successful candidates will combine strong engineering fundamentals with operational judgment and economic decision-making, leveraging data-driven problem solving to reduce downtime and

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Petroleum Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, or related engineering discipline.
• 5+ years of upstream oil and gas engineering experience.
• Strong understanding of production optimization, artificial lift, well interventions, and producing-well diagnostics.
• Ability to analyze operational data and translate findings into actionable recommendations.
• Demonstrated ability to evaluate technical alternatives using economics, risk, and production impact.

Responsibilities

• Own production performance and surveillance for an assigned portfolio of wells, identifying downtime, degradation, and optimization opportunities.
• Develop and improve scalable surveillance, dashboards, and exception-based workflows that focus attention on the highest-value opportunities.
• Diagnose production losses and recommend technically sound, economically justified actions to restore or increase production.
• Partner with reservoir engineering to evaluate well performance, support forecasting, and identify proactive intervention opportunities.
• Plan and execute well interventions, including scopes of work, AFEs, cost estimates, and well programs for workovers, repairs, artificial lift changes, and production-enhancement activities.
• Design, troubleshoot, and optimize artificial lift systems, including rod lift, gas lift, ESPs, plunger lift, or other applicable methods.
• Evaluate equipment and well failures, identify root causes, and implement changes that improve reliability and run life.
• Work closely with field operations throughout planning, execution, and post-job evaluation.

Skills

Production optimization

Artificial lift

Well interventions

Data analysis

Economic decision-making

Education

Bachelor's degree in Petroleum Engineering

Mechanical or Chemical Engineering

Job description

Crescent Energy is seeking a Production Engineer to maximize production, improve reliability, and increase the economic value of Crescent Energy’s producing assets. You will own production performance for an assigned portfolio of wells and work with field operations to identify opportunities and execute solutions.

Successful candidates will combine strong engineering fundamentals with operational judgment and economic decision-making, leveraging data-driven problem solving to reduce downtime and