Senior Completions Engineer, Oklahoma City

Senior Completions Engineer

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Job Summary

The Senior Completions Engineer is responsible for designing, planning, and executing well completion strategies to optimize production and reservoir performance. This role involves implementing completion technologies, improving hydraulic fracturing designs, and well stimulation techniques while ensuring safe operations and cost efficiencies. The completion engineers collaborate with drilling, reservoir, production, and subsurface technical teams to enhance well performance with timely execution. Key responsibilities include evaluating new technologies, troubleshoot operation challenges with field teams to minimize downtime, and ensuring compliance with state, federal, and company policies and regulations.

Duties and Responsibilities

Develop and implement completion designs and procedures that maximize well productivity while ensuring safe and efficient execution of stimulation operations.
Plan and optimize completion strategies for development and exploration, ensuring optimal recovery and operational efficiency.
Oversee the daily execution of completion operations, ensuring adherence to schedules, budgets, and company safety policies and best practices.
Collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams, including drilling, production, and reservoir engineers, to optimize well performance and ensure seamless integration of completion operations.
Analyze and troubleshoot operational issues in the field, working with field leaders to implement effective solutions and minimize downtime.
Prepare and review Authorization for Expenditures (AFEs), manage capital expenditures, and track well costs to ensure projects stay within budget.
Ensure all completion activities comply with state, federal, and company policies, regulations, and industry standards.
Take an active role to promote and enforce a Continental's strong safety culture by integrating safety best practices into all aspects of completion operations.
Lead change management initiatives by adapting to evolving operational requirements and incorporating new technologies, procedures, and industry best practices.
Continuously evaluate and implement improvements to completion techniques, aiming to enhance well performance, reduce operational problems, and increase overall efficiency.
Monitor and analyze operational data, providing accurate and timely reports on well performance, completion operations, and expenditures.
Provide technical guidance to early career engineers and field teams, offering mentorship and support to ensure high standards of team performance and safety.
Continuously evaluate emerging technologies and industry trends, applying innovative solutions to optimize well completions and enhance overall operational performance.
Other duties as assigned.

Skills and Competencies

Effective interpersonal skills to communicate and collaborate within various team environments and build strong relationships with field teams.
Demonstrates strong mathematical, analytical, and problem-solving skills with a proactive mindset toward challenges.
Self-motivated with strong time management skills.

Ensures Accountability - Holding self and others accountable to meet commitments.
Manages Complexity - Making sense of complex, high quantity, and sometimes contradictory information to effectively solve problems.
Collaborates - Building partnerships and working collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives.
Demonstrates self-awareness - Using a combination of feedback and reflection to gain productive insight into personal strengths and weaknesses.
Action-oriented - Taking on new opportunities and tough challenges with a sense of urgency, high energy, and enthusiasm.
Nimble learning - Actively learning through experimentation when tackling new problems, using both successes and failures as learning fodder.
Self-development - Actively seeking new ways to grow and be challenged using both formal and informal development channels.
Situational adaptability - Adapting approach and demeanor in real time to match the shifting demands of different situations.
Communicates effectively - Developing and delivering multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences.

Required Qualifications

Bachelor of Science in Engineering from an accredited college or university in Petroleum, Mechanical, or Chemical preferred.
Minimum of five (five) years of experience with all facets of completion operations, modern stimulation techniques, subsurface technical knowledge, and solving complex petro-technical problems.

Ability and willingness to drive, relocate, and/or travel for extended periods of time.
Adaptability to work various schedules in a dynamic environment to accommodate field rotations and remote locations.
An acceptable pre-employment background and drug test.

Physical Requirements and Working Conditions

Requires prolonged sitting, some bending and stooping.
Occasional lifting up to 25 pounds.
Manual dexterity sufficient to operate a computer keyboard and calculator

Continental Resources, Inc. provides equal employment opportunities and access for all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any other category protected by law.

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Location:: Oklahoma City

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