Senior Engineer, Operations

About the role

The Senior Engineer, Operations is responsible for planning, coordinating and supervising safe and efficient oil and gas production, processing and export operations. The role ensures optimum efficiency, facility integrity and compliance with HSE management systems.

Key responsibilities

• Review operating data against production targets, identify deviations and work with stakeholders on alarm management and KPI compliance.
• Coordinate production and injection adjustments, conduct field technical rate and capacity tests, and support shutdown planning and optimization.
• Troubleshoot plant and surface facility issues, lead root‑cause analysis of equipment failures and monitor performance trends.
• Engage with technical, project and construction teams during design review, value engineering, HAZOP/HAZID studies and commissioning.
• Participate in risk assessments, emergency response, and integrity management activities for both surface and subsurface facilities.

Required profile

• Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering or equivalent.
• Minimum 8 years of experience, including at least 4 years in the oil & gas industry.

Required skills

• Water injection
• Gas lift
• CO2 injection and distribution
• ESP wells
• Shutdown optimization
• HSE Management system
• Gas injection
• Oil and gas production processing
• Alarm management