Control Room Operator

Overview

Responsible for remotely monitoring and supporting oil and gas production operations from a centralized control room. This position monitors field equipment, production conditions, alarms, and operating parameters through SCADA and other control systems to help maintain safe, reliable, and efficient operations.

Responsibilities

• Following through on commitments, sharing openly & accurately, leaving it better than found, leaning into challenges, bolstering support or coworkers, considering implications, offering solutions, stepping up and leading, never settling for good enough, and embracing new opportunities
• Safe and consistent, 12-hour shift operations of all Onshore central facilities and well assets, including downstream pressures
• Controls and monitors all facility activities and communicates / dispatches urgent matters as needed.
• Main point of contact between field personnel, management, safety, environmental, first responders, and engineering; ensuring safe, uninterrupted, and optimized business operations.
• Production performance metric monitoring & live production process optimization
• Real-time monitoring & dispatch of appropriate responses to field alarms while effectively evaluating & analyzing the root cause. Will require both remote capabilities and coordination of field employees to achieve
• Coordinates responses for the Field Operations execution team, responding to inquiries, field support requirements, safety, and production upsets
• Analyzes, interprets, and validates production variance report (PVR) of field data including downtime coding, flare venting, and fluid inventories
• Maintains an intricate online production database
• Builds collaborative relationships and actively engages with internal stakeholders, including Production Accounting, Engineering, Marketing and HSSE, for the purpose of analyzing daily/weekly outputs against set metrics
• Priority based production model function and decision-making skills

Qualifications

• Previous oil & gas production, lease operations, control room, or ROC experience required.
• Experience with SCADA, HMI, or production monitoring systems.
• Understanding of oil & gas production equipment such as separators, compressors, pumps, tanks, valves, and wellheads.
• Ability to interpret alarms and production data and recognize abnormal operating conditions.
• Strong troubleshooting and communication skills.
• Must meet conditional job offer requirements.