Production Engineer II
Denver/Greeley, CO
Full Time
Operations
Experienced
| Position Title: Department: | Production Engineer II Operations |
| Location: | Denver and Field |
| Reports to: | Sr. Operations Engineer |
| Salary Range: | $140,000 – $160,000 |
Job Summary
Essential Functions
- Work as part of an operational team that includes engineers, foremen, operations, construction, and regulatory.
- Support production operations from a technical, operational, and cost standpoint.
- Proactive in Environmental, Safety, and Health standards and practices.
- Collaborate across completion and production teams in regard to new horizontal well completion and production operations. Obtain cost estimates. Make sure regulatory requirements are met. Support field operations in execution. Complete necessary post job reporting including internal and external. Document necessary or required items. Ensure regulatory filings are submitted. Participate in thorough lookbacks and make recommendations on improvements and efficiencies.
- Review offset well mitigation and safety prep requirements, make recommendations, and ensure work is done timely and efficiently.
- Evaluate historical production to identify and recommend opportunities for production enhancement and minimizing lease operating expenses. Evaluate past workover jobs.
- Identify, package, implement capital projects and value enhancements. In addition, implement expense workovers and P&A jobs
- Work with operations to evaluate and recommend artificial lift optimization opportunities.
- Assist with well planning, design and capital costs for D&C. Economic evaluations for any type of project.
- Communicate with manager, team members, and members of other teams within the asset. Ensure accurate and timely reporting of critical activities.
- Evaluate projects and prepare cost comparisons.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in petroleum engineering or similar required
- 5+ years industry related experience with emphasis on production operations
- Niobrara/Codell experience desired
- Open to spending time in the field learning Prairie’s operations
- Demonstrates excellent communication and interpersonal skills to handle multiple tasks with changing and conflicting responsibilities and accountabilities
- Must be self-motivated and an enthusiastic team player capable of completing tasks with minimum direction of others to meet sensitive deadlines and goals
- Tolerant of changing priorities from a big picture point of view
Supervisory Responsibilities
Work environment
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.- Majority of work will be out of the Denver office and with some work out of the field locations as needed.
Physical demands
- May require occasional lifting of heavy objects.
- Physical ability to perform routine maintenance on oil and gas wells as required.
travel requirements
- Occasional travel to Denver office and field locations
employee benefits
Prairie Operating Employee Co., LLC offers competitive compensation and benefits programs which include, but are not limited to, health care coverage, retirement plan, protection coverage, time off and leave programs, training and development opportunities and a range of allowances connected to specific work situations. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, physical or mental disability, marital status or veteran status.
Prairie Operating Employee Co., LLC reserves the right to modify this job description at its discretion at any time. This job description is not intended to be all-inclusive and does not imply that these are the only duties to be performed by the employee(s) incumbent in this position. Employee(s) will be required to follow any other job-related instructions and to perform any other job-related duties requested by any person authorized to give instructions or assignments.”
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