Specific Responsibilities
The Water Resources Treatment Assistant Foreman supports the safe, reliable, and cost-effective operation of APA’s produced-water treatment and recycling systems in the Permian Basin. This role provides operational oversight of water treatment facilities, leads continuous improvement efforts, manages treatment-related water balances, and helps ensure adequate treatment capacity to support ongoing development activity. The successful candidate will work closely with Water Resources, Production, Completions, Chemical, Facilities, and Supply Chain teams to optimize produced-water treatment performance, reduce cost per barrel, and maintain compliance with applicable environmental and regulatory requirements.
Key Reponsibilities:
- Support the daily operation, monitoring, and optimization of produced-water treatment and recycling facilities.
- Ensure treatment operations are conducted safely, reliably, efficiently, and in compliance with company policies and environmental regulations.
- Lead and support continuous-improvement initiatives focused on reducing treatment cost per barrel, improving equipment reliability, optimizing chemical usage, and increasing operational efficiency.
- Monitor treatment-system performance, including throughput, water quality, chemical consumption, equipment uptime, and operating costs.
- Conduct regular site inspections and coordinate preventative maintenance and corrective actions for treatment infrastructure.
- Maintain accurate records of water volumes entering, moving through, and leaving treatment facilities, including treated-water inventory, disposal volumes, transfers, and recovered hydrocarbons.
- Reconcile water balances and identify discrepancies, capacity constraints, and opportunities to improve utilization of internal produced-water volumes.
- Use historical data, operational trends, and development forecasts to anticipate future treatment demand and capacity requirements.
- Coordinate treatment capacity, storage, supply, and takeaway needs to support completion schedules and minimize operational disruptions.
- Partner with Production, Completions, Chemical, Facilities, and Water Resources teams to align treatment strategy with field operations and development plans.
- Work with Supply Chain to manage treatment-related materials, chemicals, equipment, rentals, and service providers.
- Support vendor performance management, cost reviews, and identification of commercial savings opportunities.
- Assist with the development and implementation of standard operating procedures, training materials, and operational best practices.
- Provide leadership, guidance, and field support to treatment operators and contract personnel.
Qualifications & Experience
The successful candidate will have the following qualifications and experience:
- High school diploma or equivalent.
- Experience in produced-water management, water treatment, water recycling, saltwater disposal, or related oil and gas operations.
- Working knowledge of field operations, equipment reliability, preventative maintenance, and safe-work practices.
- Ability to interpret operational data and identify opportunities to improve efficiency, reliability, and cost performance.
- Strong communication and organizational skills, with the ability to coordinate effectively across multiple teams and contractors.
- Ability to work in a field-based environment and travel throughout the Permian Basin as operationally required.
Preferred Qualifications
- Associate or bachelor’s degree in a technical, environmental, operations, or related field.
- Experience with produced-water treatment technologies, chemical programs, hydrocarbon recovery, or water-recycling facilities.
- Supervisory or leadership experience in oil and gas field operations.
- Experience with water tracking, forecasting, reporting, and operational data-analysis tools.
- Familiarity with environmental compliance requirements related to produced-water handling and treatment.
Competencies
The successful candidate will lead by example through successfully demonstrating 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.
- Leadership Competencies
- Servant Leadership: Inspires and enables performance excellence through feedback, empathy, development and empowerment;
- Strategic Mindset: Applies business acumen to see the big picture, understand business issues, and exhibit financial stewardship;
- Change Leadership: Inspires change by challenging the status quo, generating support, and executing improvement projects to achieve business outcomes; and
- Leading Effective Teams: Enables performance excellence through effective structure, delegation, and motivation.
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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