Senior Production Optimization Engineer

Socket.dev; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Crescent Energy is seeking a Production Engineer to maximize asset value across a portfolio of wells. You will own production performance, design surveillance dashboards, and collaborate with field operations to diagnose issues and implement economically justified improvements.

The role emphasizes data analysis, economic decision-making, and cross-functional teamwork with reservoir, geology, and drilling teams. Travel to field sites will be required.

Qualifications

• :Bachelor's degree in Petroleum Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, or related engineering discipline.
• :5+ years 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.
• :Strong communication, collaboration, problem-solving, and organizational skills.
• :Unconventional or high-well-count production experience preferred, but not required.

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.
• Prioritize opportunities based on production impact, cost, risk, reliability, and expected economic return.
• Track and understand LOE and capital expenditures, identify material variances, and recommend corrective actions.
• Use production, failure, cost, and operational data to identify recurring trends and improvement opportunities.
• Develop and share best practices, standards, and lessons learned across the organization.
• Collaborate with reservoir, geology, completions, drilling, facilities, automation, and operations teams to maximize asset value.
• Support new-well startup, flowback, and early-time production optimization.
• Incorporate safety, environmental stewardship, regulatory compliance, and operational risk into engineering decisions.
• Clearly communicate recommendations, assumptions, risks, and expected value to technical teams and leadership.

Skills

Production optimisation

Artificial lift

Well interventions

Well diagnostics

Data analysis

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in Petroleum, Mechanical, Chemical Engineering or related field

Job description

Crescent Energy is seeking a Production Engineer to maximize asset value across a portfolio of wells. You will own production performance, design surveillance dashboards, and collaborate with field operations to diagnose issues and implement economically justified improvements.

The role emphasizes data analysis, economic decision-making, and cross-functional teamwork with reservoir, geology, and drilling teams. Travel to field sites will be required.