POSITION: SENIOR PRODUCTION ENGINEER
The Senior Production Engineer will play a key role in optimizing well performance and supporting operational excellence at Greenfire. This position requires a hands-on, technically focused individual who can integrate engineering expertise with day-to-day field operations in a SAGD (Steam Assisted Gravity Drainage) environment. The successful candidate will work closely with multidisciplinary teams, to contribute to the analysis, optimization, and planning of production and operational strategies while ensuring regulatory compliance and to drive continuous improvement.
This is a permanent, full-time position based at Greenfire Resources’ Calgary office, with occasional fieldwork as required based on operational needs and management discretion.
JOB DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
Reporting to the Director, Production
Responsibilities of this role include, but are not limited to:
- Provide production engineering expertise within a multi-disciplinary team to monitor, analyze and optimize SAGD well production.
- Collaborate and maintain a strong interface with Operations regarding the day-to-day well management to establish and optimize production and injection targets within field and plant capacities.
- Chair weekly and monthly reviews for production performance on assigned areas to align subsurface teams on strategies and tactics to meet or exceed targets and create recovery strategies as required.
- Identify and manage re-development or workover scope opportunities.
- Subsurface completion design for both Greenfield and Brownfield applications.
- Artificial lift design for both gas lift and mechanical technologies.
- Identify and recommend new technologies to improve the SAGD recovery process.
- Participate in short and long-term planning, including forecasting, as well as assessing and making recommendations for capital projects to improve operational costs.
- Responsible for upkeep of daily and monthly production reporting, including Production Accounting.
- Ensure all corporate and regulatory standards are properly interpreted to minimizing risk of non-performance, incidents, damage to the environment or other loss of value, etc.
- Performs other duties and responsibilities as required.
REQUIRED EXPERIENCE AND SKILL SET:
- Minimum of a Bachelor of Science in Engineering, APEGA registration required.
- 8+ years’ engineering experience, with preference for SAGD experience.
- Knowledge of related disciplines would be an asset:
- Drilling, completions and operations/facilities engineering;
- Artificial lift systems (e.g. rod pumps, gas lift and ESP systems);
- Subsurface wellbore design; or
- Thermodynamics and fluid dynamics .
- Well Integrity
- Experience with oilfield software packages for production accounting, drilling & completions data management, and data visualization are considered an asset (e.g., Wellview, Power BI, & Parcview).
- Strong ability to analyze and problem solve and effectively communicate with stakeholders.
- An ability to marry operational decisions with resulting economic impact.
- Excellent communication skills, both written, and oral.
- Must hold a valid Class-5 driver’s license.
- Must be legally permitted to work in Canada.
Why Greenfire?
Greenfire is the newest oilsands company to publicly list on both the NYSE and TSX (ticker:GFR). Greenfire operates its two SAGD assets in the Fort McMurray region of Alberta, Canada. In 2020, the Company’s operations team was awarded the Energy Excellence Awards Champion for Project Excellence in Oilsands, voted by its peers to recognize energy excellence and focused advancement and collaboration with Canada’s energy sector.
* Compensation commensurate with experience *
