Production Engineer - Heavy Oil-Enhanced Oil Recovery Lead

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What role you will play in our team

We are looking for an experienced production engineer to support diluent optimization initiatives. You will be responsible for production optimization efforts focused on maximizing asset value through integrated production surveillance, optimization, and well work opportunity evaluation in unconventional oil and gas assets in Cold Lake, Alberta.

As part of the Cold Lake team, you will play a key role in advancing one of Canada's largest in-situ oil sands operations by optimizing diluent management. This position combines technical expertise, data-driven decision making, and cross-functional collaboration to unlock value across the asset.

This position will be located at our ExxonMobil Campus in Spring, TX , and will ultimately serve as our diluent optimization lead for the Cold Lake, Alberta facilities.

What you will do

Surveillance, Reporting, and Stewardship:

• • Surveillance and reporting of injected and reproduced diluent
  • Surveillance of process performance
  • Funding actions and investment reappraisals
  • Regular stewardship to management on business results
  • Manage databases and dashboards to support quick business insights built on sound data
  • Inputs into accounting processes
  • Alignment with Development team on future opportunities

Fluid Composition Skills:

• • Reproduced Diluent analysis - pad vs plant methodologies, samples vs density models, evolution of techniques to improve estimates

Heavy Oil Reservoir Skills:

• • Analysis of diluent processes in the reservoir
  • Trial alternatives

External interface with industry consortia and other operators

About you

Skills and Qualifications

• Minimum BS degree in Engineering required in Petroleum, Chemical, or Mechanical discipline
• Minimum 5 years relevant experience
• Upstream oil & gas industry experience
• Experience in fluid sampling and analysis
• Experience in reservoir fluid property analysis
• Skilled in data management, quality control, and presentation
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a team with other disciplines, including operations, SSHE, regulatory, permitting, accounting, reservoir, wells, facilities and land
• Strong interpersonal & communication skills to enable effective team collaboration and upline stewardship
• Ability to lead and facilitate meetings and group discussions
• Ability to travel occasionally to Cold Lake, Alberta
• Intermediate + advanced experience with Power BI, Tableau, and Pipeline Coating

Your benefits

An ExxonMobil career is one designed to last. Our commitment to you runs deep: our employees grow personally and professionally, with benefits built on our core categories of health, security, finance, and life.

We offer you:

• Pension Plan : Enrollment is automatic and at no cost to you. The basic benefit is a monthly annuity to be paid to you in retirement for the rest of your life.
• Savings Plan : You can contribute between 6% and 20% of your pay and are encouraged to enroll right away. If you contribute at least 6% to your savings plan, the Company will contribute a 7% match
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans .
• Culture of Health : Programs and resources to support your wellbeing.
• Employee Health Advisory Program : Provides confidential professional counseling for you and your family, including tools and resources promoting mental health and resiliency at no additional cost to you.
• Disability Plan : Income replacement for when you cannot work due to illness or injury occurring on or off the job. Enrollment is automatic and at no cost to you.

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