Reservoir Engineering Manager
About The Position
CSI Recruiting is working with a well-established Fort Worth-based E&P company seeking an experienced Reservoir Engineering Manager. This is a newly created growth role—not a backfill—supporting development planning and acquisition evaluation as the company pursues drilling, development, and significant bolt-on acquisitions. The company has a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment and prefers candidates with experience in a similar company and role. The position is primarily technical, with opportunities to contribute to strategic decisions, vendor selection, project management initiatives, and organizational leadership. The successful candidate will be a development-focused reservoir engineer able to implement and complete projects, lead technical discussions, communicate and defend recommendations, and drive projects through execution. Substantial unconventional experience is required; Permian experience is strongly preferred. The role also requires sound decision-making on complex projects, including economic analysis.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree required; Petroleum Engineering preferred.
- A minimum of 10 years of experience as a reservoir engineer for an independent E&P company focused on unconventional assets in the Lower 48 states of the United States.
- Extensive exposure to unconventional resources.
- Well-versed in economic modeling software, such as ARIES and ComboCurve.
- Experience using information from multiple public data sources.
- Strong knowledge of economic evaluation and financial metrics.
Nice To Haves
- Experience in a similar fast-paced, entrepreneurial company and a similar role.
- Experience across multiple resource plays, with a focus on the Permian.
- Permian experience.
Responsibilities
- Demonstrate the ability to solve complex problems.
- Evaluate and monitor well performance.
- Generate production well forecasts.
- Work closely with other departments.
- Apply knowledge of economic evaluation and financial metrics.
- Improve efficiency in data analysis.
- Support reserve estimates and forecast updates.
- Coordinate with independent reserve engineers.
- Contribute to strategic decisions, vendor selection, and project management initiatives.
- Communicate and defend technical recommendations and drive projects through execution.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
