Senior Storage Field Engineer (Hybrid Schedule)

About Us

At SoCalGas, we believe that every Californian deserves a resilient energy future.  We are working to achieve that future by empowering California to reach its sustainability goals through innovation, collaboration, and decarbonization. As our state's energy needs change, we will be there providing reliable energy that is clean, safe, and affordable to our 22 million customers.

In addition to helping shape the future of hydrogen technology and clean energy, as an employee of SoCalGas you'll also enjoy an aggressive total compensation plan, multiple upward mobility opportunities and the ability to find a true work life balance.   We also strive to reflect the communities we serve by attracting top talent and maintaining a diverse workforce.

  To discover more about how rewarding it is to work here, we invite you to visit these pages on our website: Our Mission; Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Sustainability, In the Community, and Employee Benefits. Join SoCalGas today to share in our mission to build the cleanest, safest, and most innovative energy company in America!

Primary Purpose

Functions as the company's expert in petroleum engineering. Provides technical support within the Gas Storage Operations and Reservoir Integrity and Engineering organizations for operation, maintenance, integrity verification and capital improvements. Primary focus is workover design and implementation, with adherence to SoCalGas standards and API best practices, cost estimation, field work supervision, and regulatory compliance assurance.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Well Work Preparation. Gas storage wells workover candidate's evaluation.
  
  Designs and generates programs for workovers, abandonments, and completions. Prepares and submits notices of intent to execute the proposed work to Division of Oil, Gas and Geothermal Resources. Monitors daily rig or rigless well operations.

• Travels to the four gas storage fields as required. Provides assigned Well Site Manager with engineering assistance and adherence to gas standards for all well operations.
  
  Delivers onsite support and supervision during critical jobs. Ensures regulatory compliance during well work execution and proper daily well work records documentation.

• Ensures compliance with Health, Safety, and Environmental (HSE) regulations and guidelines. Promotes safety awareness and environmental consciousness.
  
  Prepares Capital/Expense initial cost estimates and reauthorizations for over expenditures. Reviews vendor field costs for accuracy and authenticity and approve associated invoices. Performs technical well work lessons learned, as well as perform financial post audits. Provides technical mentorship to less experienced staff.

• Provides technical expertise within the department and Company. Provides technical advice to junior staff members and reviews technical results, evaluations and analyses.

• Performs Project Close Out responsibilities associated with the downhole well work operations and the resulting records generated by Storage Integrity Management Program team.

• Stays abreast of the latest changes, trends and technological advancements in the industry through attendance at conferences and seminars, continuing education, literature, etc. Educate SCG management on latest trends.

• Performs other duties as assigned (no more than 5% of duties).

$122500 - $183800 / year

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