Specific Responsibilities
The Production Engineer II is responsible for the day to day operations of the wells and facilities in their area of responsibility and specific assignments as directed by their Manager. This a 14/14 rotational position.
- Serve as the field-based “Production Expert” within Central Area on a 14/14 field rotation reporting to the Production GM’s. Support continual improvement of Production Operations.
- Ensure alignment with Apache corporate and functional objectives by prioritizing safe operations, delivering production targets, and maintaining strict fiscal discipline.
- Oversee water flood operations including source & produced water reinjection systems, injection well performance, and reservoir optimization support across the fields.
- Provide technical oversight of the Salam main oil process facility, ensuring safe, efficient, and reliable performance.
- Monitor and optimize production well performance, gathering system capacity, and identify pipeline and facility debottlenecking opportunities to increase production and system reliability.
- Provide oversight of contractor-operated RPFs, drive performance improvements, and intervene when service delivery, safety, reliability, injection targets, or cost control expectations are not met.
- Communicate effectively and coordinate work with other departments such as Maintenance, Asset Integrity (Corrosion team), Lab, Drilling & Completions, Prod Ops/Eng to optimize resources and minimize downtime / deferrals.
- Ensure adherence to KPC policies and procedures; hold all KPC staff and contractors accountable for compliance with EH&S standards.
- Conduct EH&S audits, update & create SOP’s, ensure accurate Risk Assessments are completed in a timely manner, and take part in incident investigations ensuring lessons learned are applied.
- Mentor, guide, and develop KPC production staff, ensuring proper stewardship of KPC-owned assets within contractor-operated facilities.
- Support projects through construction, commissioning, and startup, ensuring operational readiness, cost control, and performance alignment.
Qualifications & Experience
The successful candidate will have the following qualifications and experience:
• BS Degree in Engineering Discipline
• 5 years experience working in an international JV environment
• 5-10 years operations experience all types of oil and gas operations: wells and well behaviours, artificial lift, gathering systems, water flood, oil and gas process systems, rotating equipment, compression, pipelines, safety programs, etc.
• Proficiency at using the industry standard suite of Microsoft Office applications
• Ability to work in a fast paced and dynamic integrated team environment & communicate effectively across disciplines.
• Strong communication skills, be a self starter in identifying opportunities, overcoming obstacles and pursuing initiatives through to completion.
Competencies
The successful candidate should demonstrate and exhibit the following core competencies:
- Communication: Writes, speaks, and presents information effectively and persuasively across communication setting;
- Results: Pursues work with energy, drive, and results orientation to positively impact Apache's business success;
- Collaboration: Works in partnership with others and encourages different perspectives, while building and maintaining trust; and
- Culture: Willingness and ability to align one's behavior with the needs, priorities, and goals of Apache.
Company Overview
Our primary product is energy, and where there is affordable, abundant energy, people are healthier, have access to better education, and are given greater opportunities to elevate their families to higher standards of living.
Nearly 3 billion people — roughly one-third of the global population — live without electricity or without clean cooking facilities. We are committed to providing energy in innovative and more sustainable ways to help raise the standard of living for those living in energy poverty and to meet the ongoing demands of people and economies around the world.
The products we deliver power increasingly cleaner electricity across the globe, fuel tractors and trucks, make fertilizer to keep the world's food supply on the table, and heat our schools, hospitals and businesses.
Our employees bring a wide range of talents and skills to the job every day to tackle complex business challenges. We believe in providing a truly rewarding work environment supported by a benefits platform that ranks among the best in our peer group. Our company offers career development opportunities where employees can grow personally and professionally. We promote employee benefits that cultivate a family-friendly work environment and focus on our employees' overall well-being.
We are committed to being a workplace where all employees are valued and can thrive with a sense of belonging. Our commitment to non-discriminatory, equal employment opportunities benefits our individual employees, our company and our external stakeholders; we are better as an organization when various experiences, ideas, and perspectives are brought to the table.
Apache Corporation is a wholly owned subsidiary of APA Corporation (NASDAQ:APA). Apache has operations in the United States, Egypt's Western Desert and the United Kingdom's North Sea and a sister company with exploration opportunities offshore Suriname. Whether supporting Apache, APA Corporation or one of its subsidiaries, team members are employed by Apache Corporation.
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Apache Statement on Hiring
To provide genuine equal opportunity to all people, it is the policy of Apache Corporation and its subsidiaries to base all employment-related decisions and actions exclusively on employment-related criteria. To provide genuine equal opportunity to all people, it is the policy of Apache Corporation and its subsidiaries to provide broad dissemination of job opportunities, as consistent with the nature of the positions. To provide genuine equal opportunity to all people, it is the policy of Apache Corporation and its subsidiaries to review its employment-related policies and actions on a regular basis to ensure that their application is consistent with their intent.