Facilities Engineer

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Job Summary

Job Description

Delaware Basin Overview

Spanning West Texas through Southeast New Mexico, ConocoPhillips holds approximately 709,000 total net acres in the Delaware Basin, which includes approximately 699,000 unconventional net acres. ConocoPhillips began exploring and appraising the basin's stacked pay potential in 2012 and has gained extensive technical expertise to optimize development. Entering 2023, the company now operates over 2,800 wells throughout the Basin.

In 2022, the company operated an average of 10 drilling rigs, including one electric rig, and 153 new operated wells were brought online. Net production in 2022 averaged 321 MBOED.

Description

ConocoPhillips' unconventional assets in the Permian Basin are one of the company's primary opportunities for growth. Spanning West Texas and southeastern New Mexico, the company is well positioned in some of the most prolific and lowest cost of supply zones, with an active development program underway. ConocoPhillips is committed to being an innovative and environmentally responsible operator, deploying technologies and practices needed to deliver on that ambition.

This position is for a Facilities Engineer within the Delaware Basin West (DBW) asset. The position is in Midland, TX, with primary assets located in Southeastern New Mexico (Eddy county) and west Texas (Culberson and Reeves counties). The DBW assets are comprised of tank batteries, well pad separation facilities, oil and water gathering systems, central processing facilities, and saltwater disposal facilities, accounting for production of around 150,000 barrels of oil equivalent each day.

The DBW Facilities Engineering team is accountable for the design and technical integrity of all surface facilities within the Delaware Basin West asset across their lifecycle. This includes IDENTIFICATION of issues and opportunities, INVESTIGATION to determine root causes and solutions, and IMPLEMENTATION of those solutions, all in close collaboration with other teams across the company.

This position can be based in Midland, Texas or Carlsbad, New Mexico.

Responsibilities may include:

• IDENTIFICATION: Technical surveillance (monitoring process trends, model development, etc.), Field engagement (participation in daily operations meetings, building relationships with operators and field leadership, regular visits to field locations)
• INVESTIGATION: Conduct formal and informal root cause investigations, Develop and select solutions that meet the business goals (safety, cost, production, emissions), including required front-end engineering work
• IMPLEMENTATION: Deliver solutions, including detailed engineering, reviews, fit-for-purpose process hazard analyses, management of change (MOC), and end-to-end project management

Basic/Required:

• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis for anyone other than current employer
• Bachelor's degree or higher in Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, other related engineering discipline, or foreign equivalent
• 3+ years of experience in design, construction and/or operation of oil and gas facilities in the United States
• Ability to regularly travel to field locations (primarily day trips in a company pool vehicle) 15% of the year

Preferred:

• 5+ years of experience in design, construction and/or operation of oil and gas facilities in the United States
• 5+ years of experience with hydrocarbon production operations support and troubleshooting
• Proven ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously
• Experience with gas compressor design, operation, and troubleshooting
• Familiarity with key work processes, particularly Management of Change (MOC)
• Demonstrated effectiveness working across organizational boundaries, particularly between engineering and operations
• Demonstration of SPIRIT values plus team behaviors of Collaboration, Accountability, Responsiveness, and Discipline
• Takes ownership of actions and follows through on commitments by holding others accountable and standing up for what is right
• Delivers positive results through realistic planning to accomplish goals
• Builds effective solutions based on available information and makes timely decisions that are safe and ethical