Senior Petroleum Engineer

 

PGH, a GAI Consultants company, is seeking a Senior Petroleum Engineer to plan, design and implement processes to maximize oil and gas production from onshore and offshore reservoirs including the quantification of oil and gas reserves and resources. The successful candidate will have the ability to work a hybrid or fully remote. Additionally, the successful candidate may be eligible for a generous PGH sign-on bonus. 

Job Duties: 

• Develops plans to drill and recover oil and gas.
• Develops ways to inject water, chemicals, gases, or steam into an oil reserve to force out more oil or gas.
• Evaluate the production of wells through surveys, testing and analysis.
• Collaborates with other professionals and discusses requirements with clients.
• Uses computer programs to develop detailed designs, reserves, and economics.
• Offers expert testimony in regulatory and litigation matters.
• Assists in business development of new projects/clients.

Experience and Education: 

• 16+ years’ experience.
• Requires candidate have a Masters or PhD level degree and be a licensed professional engineer in one or more states.
• Performs work under minimal to no supervision.
• Handles complex issues and problems.
• Possesses comprehensive knowledge of subject matter.
• Provides leadership, coaching, and/or mentoring to a subordinate group.
• May act as a lead or first-level supervisor. Requires candidate be a licensed professional engineer in one or more states.

Summary 

Technical Responsibilities 

• Develops standards and guidelines. 
• Leads a program in the organization in their area of specialization. 
• Develops appropriate design alternatives for complex engineering projects that consider realistic requirements, constraints, community input, permitting, and other regulatory constraints. 
• Integrates advanced concepts, including sustainability, to solve complex problems. 

Project and Task Management 

• Oversees large or multidiscipline project teams. 
• Recommends facilities, personnel, and funds required to carry out programs. 
• Oversees technical, legal, and financial issues of an entire program. 
• Integrates these components into a complete project management plan for a complex engineering project. 
• Implements effective teamwork, leadership, and justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion principles into solutions for engineering problems. 
• Determines program objectives and requirements. 
• Develops organizational policies and procedures. 

Essential Duties and Responsibilities 

General Characteristics 

• Uses creativity, foresight, and mature judgment to anticipate and solve new problems. 
• Makes authoritative decisions and recommendations that impact organizational activities and culture. 
• Sets priorities and reconciles directions from competing interests. 
• Leads programs with complex features with work performed directly, or by others. 
• Integrates engineering economics and risk analysis into the solutions of complex engineering problems. 
• Integrates solutions to complex problems across specialty areas. 
• Demonstrates ethical leadership, behavior, and decision making 

Communication, Teamwork and Leadership 

• Possesses exceptional oral and written communication skills, including negotiation of critical issues. 
• Integrates different forms of effective and persuasive communication to technical and nontechnical audiences. 
• Demonstrates financial acumen and familiarity with legal issues related to engineering practice. 
• Initiates and maintains extensive contacts with key engineers and officials, or other organizations and companies. 
• Promotes justice, diversity, equity, and inclusion within their organizational segment. 
• Communications are characterized as strategic interactions between stakeholders with mutual awareness and interests. 

Supervisory Responsibilities 

Management, Supervision and Guidance 

• Receives administrative supervision with assignments given in terms of broad general objectives and limits. 
• Implements staff development plans within their organizational segment, including technical, management, and leadership skills. 
• Advocates for and establishes professional attitudes within the organization. 
• Evaluates the effectiveness of leaders and teams, and their understanding and application of concepts of justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion. 

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