Completion & Workover Engineer

WaterBridge • Midland, TX

3d • Onsite

About The Position

The Completion & Workover Engineer plans and designs well workover and completion activities, prepares AFEs, evaluates operational performance and costs, assesses vendor performance, and investigates and applies new technologies for saltwater disposal wells in the Permian Basin, Arkoma Basin, and South Texas. The role works closely with Reservoir, Land, Construction, and Regulatory groups and provides detailed, current performance and cost analysis to Division Management. It also provides daily engineering supervision and guidance to rig operations and well-site supervisors.

The position contributes to a safety-first operating culture, ensures regulatory compliance, and supports workover, completion, and plug-and-abandonment operations from planning through reporting. The engineer monitors operational progress and costs, coordinates with vendors and Procurement, reviews contractor invoices, and supports field teams. The position is based in Midland, Texas, with travel to designated field sites when necessary.

Requirements

• Bachelor of Science degree or higher in Engineering; Mechanical or Petroleum Engineering is preferred.
• High level of personal and professional integrity and accountability.
• Self-motivated and able to integrate within multidisciplinary teams.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to adapt communication styles between onsite and technical office-based teams and ensure information is clearly conveyed between them.
• Excellent analytical and troubleshooting skills.
• Willingness and ability to travel to field-operation locations when necessary.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office, including Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.

Nice To Haves

• Five years of industry experience, preferably focused on completions and high-pressure workovers.
• Permian experience.
• Exposure to Spotfire, Power BI, Tableau, or other analytics tools.
• Ability to interpret open-hole and cased-hole formation evaluation logs, as well as cement and casing evaluation logs.
• Experience designing and executing remedial cementing.
• Experience designing and executing primary completions and remedial acid stimulation.
• Experience designing and executing fracture stimulation for vertical or horizontal wells.
• Experience performing and analyzing formation pressure evaluations, including step-rate testing and leak-off tests.
• Proficiency in workover and completion fluid-system design and execution, including stimulation and diversion additive selection for fracture and acid stimulation.

Responsibilities

• Promote a safety-first approach to planning and executing operations, proactively reducing risk and using incident evaluations to prevent root causes from recurring.
• Ensure full regulatory compliance for planned and executed operations.
• Maintain and enhance company well-control policies for workover and completion operations.
• Design and implement well work activities for workover, completion, and plug-and-abandonment operations.
• Coordinate with Procurement and third-party providers to procure tubulars and casing tools.
• Develop operational cost estimates.
• Monitor daily well-work progress and support field supervisors as necessary.
• Track planned versus actual costs and ensure accurate cost reporting and coding in operational reporting and invoice-approval systems.
• Review contractor invoices, foster fair business partnerships, and enforce contractor accountability when necessary.
• Travel to company-designated sites when necessary.
• Develop root-cause analyses for major nonproductive-time events or operational misses when necessary.
• Facilitate pre-planning meetings and post-well after-action reviews with input from field and office Operations Team members, when applicable.
• Maintain and enhance final well-work reports, including wellbore construction records, cost reconciliations, and regulatory reporting.
• Assist in developing an in-house reporting system to track regulatory information, operational activities, costs, and wellbore construction records.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage.
• Voluntary life insurance for employees, spouses, and children.
• Company-paid employee basic life and AD&D insurance.
• Company-paid short-term and long-term disability.
• 401(k) or Roth 401(k) retirement plan with company match.
• Flexible paid time off.
• Additional benefits not listed.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level