Lead Facilities Engineer

POSITION SUMMARY

The Lead Facilities Engineer partners closely with Operations, Drilling, Completions, EHS, Supply Chain, Regulatory, and Commercial teams to deliver capital projects, support production objectives, improve asset performance, and ensure compliance with industry standards and regulatory requirements. The role is accountable for establishing engineering best practices, managing projects, managing budgets, and driving continuous improvement initiatives across company-operated facilities.

ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES

Engineering Leadership

• Lead and manage facilities engineering activities supporting upstream, midstream, and production operations.
• Establish engineering standards, specifications, procedures, and best practices.
• Provide technical guidance and approval for facility designs, modifications, and operating strategies.
• Develop and execute facility optimization plans to improve safety, reliability, production efficiency, and cost performance.
• Ensure compliance with applicable engineering standards, regulatory requirements, and company policies.

Project Execution

• Lead and manage capital and expense projects from initial concept through project closeout in close coordination and collaboration with the Field Construction Team.
• Prioritize projects based on business needs, production objectives, risk mitigation, and return on investment.
• Coordinate with vendors, consultants, contractors, and internal stakeholders throughout project execution.
• Monitor project schedules, budgets, scope, and performance metrics.

Operations Support

• Provide engineering support for production facilities, gathering systems, compression facilities, water handling systems, and processing equipment.
• Lead troubleshooting and root cause failure analysis for facility and equipment issues.
• Continuously gather feedback from production engineering and operations team members and identify opportunities to increase reliability, throughput, and operational efficiency as well as drive operating expenses down.
• Oversee compression fleet and manage optimization.
• Support management of change (MOC) activities and operational readiness reviews.
• Evaluate production constraints and develop engineering solutions to enhance facility performance.

Asset Integrity and Reliability

• Develop and maintain asset integrity and reliability programs.
• Ensure inspection, maintenance, and testing requirements are established and followed.
• Monitor equipment performance and implement reliability improvement initiatives.
• Support risk assessments and mitigation plans for critical facility systems.
• Drive continuous improvement efforts related to equipment uptime and lifecycle management.

Safety, Environmental, and Regulatory Compliance

• Promote a strong safety culture and ensure compliance with all applicable HSE requirements.
• Participate in process safety management and risk management activities.
• Support environmental compliance initiatives and sustainability objectives.
• Ensure facilities meet federal, state, local, and industry regulations.
• Lead engineering investigations related to incidents, near misses, and operational events.

Financial Management

• Develop and manage department budgets and forecasts.
• Support corporate planning efforts.
• Evaluate project economics and support capital allocation decisions.
• Identify opportunities for cost reduction and operational efficiencies.
• Monitor expenditures and ensure responsible stewardship of company resources. Provide thorough review of invoices for facilities projects, compression, and others as needed.

General

• Maintain respectful and productive working relationships within and across all work groups, ensuring effective collaboration and cooperation.
• Foster a work environment that is consistent with the company’s Purpose, Vision & Core Values.

OTHER DUTIES

• Perform other duties and projects assigned to support the success of the department and company.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES

• None