Engineering Specialist - CRO

Oxy produces, markets and transports oil and natural gas to maximize value and provide resources fundamental to life. The company leverages its global leadership in carbon management to advance lower-carbon technologies and products. Headquartered in Houston, Oxy primarily operates in the United States, Middle East and North Africa. To learn more, visit Oxy

Oxy strives to attract and retain talented employees by investing in their professional development and providing rewarding opportunities for personal growth. Our goal is to meet the highest employer standards by ensuring the health and safety of our employees, protecting the environment and positively impacting our communities where we do business.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain AI-enabled and automated functionality to support production data processing, surveillance, reporting, and exception management activities.
• Build, enhance, and maintain surveillance tools and dashboards used to monitor production performance, data quality, downtime, well test results, LACT impacts, and operational exceptions.
• Author, maintain, and optimize SQL queries, Spotfire reports, and related analytical tools used to support daily production reporting, engineering surveillance, and operational decision-making.
• Understand, support, and troubleshoot production data flows between key Oxy systems, including eVin, ProCount, Carte, Nexus, SCADA, and related operational reporting platforms.
• Identify, investigate, and resolve data-flow issues, system interface problems, missing data, failed auto-population records, and reporting inconsistencies across production systems.
• Support system configuration activities for new meters, equipment, wells, data tags, reporting points, and automated data interfaces to ensure accurate data capture and reporting.
• Maintain data auto-population compliance, including ensuring all new meters and equipment are properly configured, validated, enrolled, and monitored.
• Review and validate auto-populated values to confirm accuracy, completeness, and data integrity.
• Balance daily production estimates against production impacts to identify variations that may be related to unidentified surface equipment issues, data-flow failures, measurement changes, or changing well conditions.
• Monitor production data for inconsistencies, missing information, reporting variances, and system exceptions, and coordinate corrections with field, engineering, operations, and technical support teams.
• Reconcile production, downtime, well test, and system-generated data between reporting platforms to improve overall data accuracy and consistency.
• Implement and improve processes to facilitate daily End-of-Day reports, production summaries, exception reports, and operational performance reviews.
• Monitor LACT surveillance pages, facilitate production impact analysis, and provide production loss information to management.
• Maintain updated GOR lists in SCADA systems to support COR event execution activities.
• Prepare and submit FER reports in accordance with required schedules and reporting standards.
• Identify, document, and submit major loss events through the appropriate reporting channels.
• Enter, review, and verify well downtime records to ensure completeness, accuracy, and timely reporting.
• Review and validate well test data to confirm results meet established quality standards.
• Support field and operations teams by investigating production discrepancies, troubleshooting reporting issues, and helping resolve system or data-related problems.
• Track and follow up on incomplete, late, incorrect, or system-generated exception entries to ensure reporting deadlines are met.
• Manage and maintain production data until auto-population has been fully implemented.
• Maintain compliant records of reporting activities, validations, corrections, system changes, troubleshooting actions, and submissions for audit and operational review.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with SQL query writing, data extraction, or database reporting.
• Experience developing or maintaining Spotfire dashboards, surveillance tools, exception reports, or automated production reporting workflows.
• Familiarity with Oxy production and operational systems such as eVin, ProCount, Carte, Nexus, SCADA, or similar platforms.
• Experience supporting system configuration for meters, wells, equipment, data tags, reporting points, or automated data interfaces.
• Experience troubleshooting system interface issues, failed data loads, missing data, auto-population errors, or reporting variances.
• Understanding of production data flow from field measurement devices and SCADA systems through reporting, accounting, and surveillance platforms.
• Experience supporting automation, AI-enabled workflows, reporting standardization, or process improvement initiatives.
• Knowledge of LACT surveillance, GOR tracking, COR events, FER reporting, major loss event reporting, downtime reporting, and well test validation.
• Prior experience working in Delaware Basin, Permian Basin, or other onshore oil and gas operations.
• Demonstrated ability to develop reports, dashboards, or tools that improve operational visibility, data quality, or reporting efficiency.

Recruitment Fraud
 
It has come to our attention various individuals and/or organizations are contacting people falsely pretending to recruit on behalf of Oxy. Please be aware that these recruiting scams and communications do not originate nor are they associated with our recruitment process. All Oxy job postings and offers will require a completed application through our company website.
 
Oxy does not charge a fee at any stage of the recruiting process. We will never:
 
•  Ask you to pay for applications, interviews, meetings, processing, training or for any other fees
 
•  Use recruiting or placement agencies that charge candidates an advance fee of any kind or
 
•  Request personal information such as passport and bank account details at an early stage of our recruitment process.
 
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All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, creed, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, disability status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, citizenship status or any other basis as protected by federal, state, or local law.