Production Engineer
BW Energy, Brazil

This position will be part of the oil and gas field operations team, being a key role to perform production control, monitoring, and optimization of Golfinho Field, offshore Brazil. The ideal candidate will have a background in production engineering, well operations and process safety, along with the ability to thrive in a dynamic offshore environment. This is an office-based position, but the candidate may go through a program of offshore hitches for about one year. This position is part of the production management team and interfaces with offshore management team, production and subsurface teams, senior production engineer and engineering support.

Key tasks and responsibilities:

• Maintain accurate records of operational and production reports using best practices.
• Actively contribute to the implementation of digitalization initiatives within the production team.
• Track and classify production activities and losses and follow-up the root-cause analysis of production losses to define corrective actions to restore production.
• Contribute to identification of gaps to operational envelopes and work in conjunction with multidisciplinary team to implement corrective actions.
• Support the well test planning and execution.
• Contribute to execution of optimization projects such as chemical and gas fuel optimization.
• Contribute to production performance reviews.
• Contribute to analysis of management of changes; ensure queries are identified and directed to the management team; actively participate and raise risk assessment exercises such as HAZID/HAZOP by providing technical advice and following-up mitigation plans.
• Be comfortable working in a multidisciplinary team.
• While working offshore:
• Execute troubleshoot procedures, leading problem solving to restore production.
• Monitor, analyze production performance and identify gaps to production potential and targets; execute and contribute to the surveillance plan offshore.
• Focal point aboard of the FPSO for subsea and well intervention activities when necessary.
• Actively participated in incident/accident investigations using root-cause analysis methodology.
• Actively participate in root-cause analysis of production losses events.

Requirements

Education:

• Bachelor's Degree in any field of Engineering; preferably Petroleum Engineering

Experience:

• +3 years of experience in production engineering field and oil and gas operations in a deepwater environment, preferably in a brownfield environment; Wellsite experience is a plus
• Skilled in executing wells’ start-up/shut-down procedures and in production optimization (e.g., artificial lift optimization such as gas lift and MOBO/ESP)
• Knowledge of flow assurance aspects of deepwater fields; production accounting and well testing programming; well and subsea integrity management
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
• Experience with production surveillance tools and software (e.g., SCADA, PI).
• Knowledge of offshore production facilities, well operations, and intervention techniques

Interpersonal Skills:

• Good interpersonal and communication skills
• Ability to interact with multidisciplinary teams and external stakeholders
• Excellent spoken and written communication skills.
• Ability to communicate at all levels
• Strong safety-oriented culture with a commitment to safety and environmental compliance in all aspects of work.

Knowledge:

• Proficient in the use of Microsoft Office applications such as Excel and Word, including VBA; experience with PowerBI and programming (e.g., Python) is a plus
• Knowledge of risk management and process safety

Other:

• Fluent in English and Portuguese (oral and written)
• Eligibility to hold an active CREA
• Location: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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