Lead Production Engineer – Wellsite Autonomous Operations
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full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Denver • Colorado • Texas • United States
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Salary
💰 $200,000 - $235,000 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Serve as the single production engineering authority for autonomous and semi‑autonomous production optimization across the enterprise.
- Own the enterprise production engineering standards that underpin autonomous and semi‑autonomous operations.
- Ensure optimization strategies deliver production uplift, deferral reduction, and reliability improvement across all business units.
- Performance Management: Partner with WAO leadership to define success criteria, KPIs, and OKRs for autonomous production optimization initiatives.
- Establish clear, outcome‑based measures for value delivery, reliability, and operational confidence.
- Lead or support root cause failure analyses (RCFAs) for material production, reliability, or autonomy‑related events.
- Define, steward, and maintain production optimization standards, including dynamic gas lift optimization logic and autonomous restart strategies.
Requirements
- 12+ years of Production Engineering experience in onshore oil and gas operations.
- Demonstrated enterprise or multi‑asset influence.
- Recognized internally as a technical authority and reviewer.
- Deep expertise in gas lift design, surveillance, and optimization.
- Hands‑on experience with ESP systems and failure modes.
- Hands-on experience with Compression systems and restart constraints.
- Strong production surveillance and diagnostics capability using real‑time and historical data.
- Working knowledge of control philosophies, interlocks, permissives, and fail‑safe design.
- Clear understanding of assisted, supervised, and autonomous operating modes.
- Ability to translate production engineering intent into automation‑ready, governable logic.
Benefits
- access to health, vision, and dental insurance
- flexible working schedule
- paid time off policy
- discretionary annual bonus program
- long-term incentive program
- generous 401(k) matching program
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
production engineeringgas lift designproduction optimizationESP systemscompression systemsproduction surveillancediagnosticscontrol philosophiesfail-safe designautomation-ready logic
Soft Skills
leadershipinfluencetechnical authoritycollaborationcommunicationproblem-solvinganalytical thinkingoutcome-based measurementroot cause analysisstrategic planning