Engineer-Production, Sr.

Primary Purpose

The Sr. Production Engineer (Class VI Injection) is responsible for designing, planning, and managing production/injection operations, collaborating with the Subsurface Team and CO2 Operations team to ensure efficient and successful injection operations, particularly focusing on Class VI injection requirements.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with the regulatory compliance team to ensure compliance with Class VI well regulations.

• Analyze and address the specific requirements related to Class VI injection wells.

• Define well operating envelopes according to regulatory requirements.

• Responsible for injection targets for the year, working with reservoir engineering to forecast injectivity index declines.

• Responsible for Monitoring and measurement plans during operations including yearly temperature logs.

• Develop operating and intervention budgets for yearly operating activity requirements.

• Knowledge of nodal analysis including construction of models to monitor well performance (Prosper, GAB, MBAL).

• Be an advocate for safety by designing and implementing projects to improve safety performance.

• Affiliate with operations involving workover rigs, coiled tubing units, snubbing units, electric line, and slickline.

• Responsible for Well integrity: Organize and run annual temperature surveys for regulatory compliance.

• Call for wellhead testing and maintenance when required, such as valve leak tests, casing and tubing hanger testing, repacking, as required.

• Prepare well-integrity reports required for WDEQ, EPA, WOGCC, etc.

• Develop Well failure model or well integrity model: Build and maintain failure model, with barrier diagram, discussion about well failure mechanisms, expected injection and annuli pressure trends.

• Define well operating envelope from failure model.

• Define, explain, and enforce two-barrier policy.

• Provide daily support to field personnel, ensuring safe and efficient execution of planned work activities.

• Manage multiple concurrent well projects, providing onsite field engineering support during execution.

• Use data analytics and statistics to make value-based decisions.

• Assist in the preparation and evaluation of tenders/bids for relevant support services and materials.

• Develop and maintain metrics to drive high-quality, cost-effective operations.

• Provide functional guidance and technical work scopes for procurement bid processes.

• Post operation closeouts, reviewing performance against plan, capturing lessons learned, and documenting improvements.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution in engineering discipline (Petroleum, Mechanical, Electrical and Chemical).

• 10+ Years Production Engineering Experience.

• Injection Operations Preferred.

• Valid Supervisors Well Control Certification.

Physical Demands

• Sitting;
• Standing;
• Walking or moving throughout facility;
• Driving;
• Talking;
• Seeing (specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus);
• Hearing;
• Felling;
• Bending or stooping;
• Squatting or crouching;
• Reaching;
• Kneeling;
• Pushing;
• Pulling;
• Lifting up to 25 lbs.

About Us

Tallgrass is a leading energy infrastructure company focused on safely, reliably, and sustainably delivering the energy and services that power our nation and enable our quality of life. We value our teams and strive to create an environment where employees feel respected, and their contributions are valued. We aim to support employees' physical, mental, and financial well-being through a comprehensive Total Rewards Program.

Compensation

The annual salary range for this position will be $183,000-$214,500/yr.