Production Technician

Job Title: Production Technician III

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Job Description

The Production Technician is responsible for safely and efficiently producing wells/pads on an assigned route, ensuring key performance metrics are met, and coordinating with other teams to restore and maintain production at or above clean average (target). This role uses field operations practices, digital production tools, and work management processes to identify production variance, execute corrective actions, and communicate status and needs to appropriate stakeholders.

Responsibilities

Identify production variance using Production Viewer, PI, Cygnet, and other applicable tools to ensure wells are at or above clean average (target).

• When wells are below clean average, devise step-by-step plans and execute actions to return the well/pad to at or above clean average.
• If assistance is needed to restore a well/pad to clean average, escalate in this order:
• Lead area tech
• Optimizer
• Production Foreman
• Engineer
• Notify foreman, Lead Area Tech, Optimizers, and OSC of daily actions through the route and area Teams Channel.
• Review production volumes and escalate volume calculation issues to the Engineer for coordination and resolution.
  
  

Ensure Metrics Are Met

• Site inspections: Verify no overdue site inspections using the PBI tool or emailed PDF flash report.
• Plunger inspections: Verify no overdue plunger inspections using the PBI tool and ensure inspections are within KPI thresholds:
• 5,000 miles or more
• 12 months or older
• Verifications/Gaps: Target verifications and gaps using the COW tool along with SIMOPS in operation; maintain a 15% annual verification-to-gap target ratio at the individual level.
• Coding: Verify coding is correct and current, including:
• Normal Ops – No Action codes match the correct bucket
• Base Backout – No Action wells have completed basic troubleshooting and are underperforming due to line pressure increase
• Wells above clean average are assigned back to Normal Ops – No Action
• Follow up with Lead Area Tech on codes in engineering/optimization longer than 7 days
• If you touch a well, enter a downtime code entry
  
  

Field Assistance and Work Management

• When sites require additional help to bring back online or require additional work:
• Create Work Management to the appropriate discipline (Maintenance, Automation)
• Ensure any manipulated valves adhere to LOTO policy
• Flex to other field areas when route work is complete and daily metrics are met.
  
  

Daily Work Expectations

• Prioritize work from morning dispatch review and intra-day SCADA alarms.
• Upon arrival on site:
• Place a cone at pad entrance
• Create Work Management for site entry checklist and JSA for the task
• Perform work
• Update well or pad deferment codes with comments
• Close the Work Management ticket or forward to the impacted group if needed
• Complete an independent JSA for Automation/Maintenance/Cooler work completed unless a crew is doing the work; if a crew is doing the work, review the Crew JSA.
• Communicate handover requirements to OSC for night operators.
• Collect facility run tickets every three days and turn them in to the field office location for production validations (only required for the first several months of Blackhawk operatorship).
• Maintain general housekeeping: pick up trash, confirm well signs are in place, ensure standards are held on handovers, and enter work orders where help is needed.
  
  

Daily Operations Equipment Scope (site-dependent)

• Operate, maintain, troubleshoot, and perform startup/shutdown as applicable for equipment including: wellheads, coolers, separators (HP/LP), heater treaters, blowcases, compressors, suction/discharge scrubbers, UF, chemical loops, bullet H2S treaters, flash gas scrubbers, tank level management and bottoms recirc pumps, GLV, air compressors, coalescers, fuel gas systems, SKO, cellar/containment, catalytic heaters, and control valves.
  
  

Artificial Lift Knowledge

• Basic understanding of plunger lift wells
• Ability to perform plunger inspections
• Maintain required tools and materials (calipers, plunger removal tool, SOPs, spare parts)
• Know where to view plunger programs/tools (Power BI plunger page, Cygnet plunger tab, Enbase plunger inspection process)
• Troubleshoot plunger lift wells and verify steps are completed before coding to optimization
• Basic knowledge of gas lift wells, including casing/tubing pressure correlation
• Understanding the importance of proper injection rates and surface equipment operation
• Ability to troubleshoot via Cygnet
• Ability to identify over/under injecting using total well meter throughput and critical rate required
• Wellhead Compression: Understand basics of wellhead compressor use to pull on wells without other artificial lift.
• Free Flowing Wells: Understanding of casing flow, tubing flow, and OTAP (annular and tubing flow) wells.
  
  

Equipment & Technology Requirements

• Laptop with minimum 16 GB RAM and 256 GB hard drive
• iPhone
• Mobile hotspot
• Gas Clip MGC-S four-gas monitor
• Ability to complete Excel-based reporting
• Comfortable using Microsoft Teams
  
  

Pay: WD with Truck - $36/hr Without Truck $48/hr

Location: Yorktown, TX