Lead Facilities Engineer - Wellsite Autonomous Operations
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Full time
Lead Facilities Engineer \- Wellsite Autonomous Operations
United States of America, Colorado, Denver 4 days ago
Job category
Engineering
Experience level
Senior
Relocation available
This role is not eligible for relocation
Job type
Professionals
Travel required
Up to 25% travel should be expected with this role
Job code
RQ107899
Job Description
Role Synopsis
The Lead Facilities Engineer – Wellsite Autonomous Operations serves as the single enterprise authority for facilities system, compression, and flow network behavior supporting autonomous and semi‑autonomous wellsite operations. This role is accountable for ensuring that facilities architectures, compression strategies, and surface network designs enable safe, reliable, and value‑optimized autonomous operation at scale, while remaining aligned with enterprise governance, process safety, operating model standards, and lifecycle cost objectives.
The role holds authority within delegated limits for facilities standards supporting autonomy and escalates safety‑critical, system‑level, or cross‑discipline decisions as required. This position converts field‑level facilities innovation and modeling insight into repeatable, governed enterprise advantage.
Scope \& Accountability
Own the enterprise facilities standards that underpin autonomous and semi‑autonomous wellsite operations.
Serve as the facilities counterpart to Automation, Production Engineering, and Operations leadership within the WAO governance model.
**Ensure facilities system design enables:**
Compression operability across variable operating envelopes
Stable, predictable flow under transient conditions
Autonomous control strategies that respect physical system limits
Economics supporting the impact in terms of discrete value and potential scale
Act as the authoritative voice on surface network behavior, including gas, liquids, and multiphase flow interactions across pads, trunklines, and compression stations.
Performance Management \& Learning
Partner with WAO leadership to define success criteria, KPIs, and OKRs for facilities‑enabled autonomous operations.
**Establish outcome‑based performance measures tied to:**
Compression availability and unmanned auto restart, remote supported restart, and remote diagnostics for first\-visit resolution
Flow assurance stability under transient operation
Constraint removal and debottlenecking effectiveness
Lead or support root cause failure analyses (RCFAs) for material facilities, compression, or surface‑network‑driven events.
**Ensure RCFA outcomes are translated into:**
Updated standards
Modeling assumptions and constraints
Deployment guardrails for autonomous operation
Standards \& Governance
Define, steward, and maintain facilities standards supporting WAO, including:
Compression system control envelopes and operability limits
Surface network design criteria for autonomous and transient operation
Facilities integration requirements with automation and control strategies
**Establish clear criteria for:**
Standard application
Approved deviations
Required escalation for safety‑critical or value‑material decisions
**Ensure facilities designs are consistent with:**
Process safety and mechanical integrity expectations
Operability across steady‑state and transient conditions
Enterprise lifecycle cost and reliability objectives
Minimum Qualifications
Experience
12\+ years of Facilities Engineering experience in US onshore oil and gas operations.
Demonstrated enterprise or multi‑asset technical influence.
Recognized internally as a technical authority in facilities systems, pipeline networks, and compression.
Technical Domain Expertise
Compression Systems
Deep expertise in gas compression technologies used in US onshore operations
Understanding of compressor performance envelopes, turndown limitations, recycle strategies, and failure modes
Ability to define compression requirements that enable autonomous and semi‑autonomous operation without compromising equipment integrity
Dynamic \& Transient Modeling
Advanced experience with dynamic modeling of gas and liquid flowline networks
**Ability to evaluate transient behavior during:**
Startups and shutdowns
Rate changes
Equipment trips and restarts
Translate modeling outputs into practical design constraints and operational guardrails
Surface Network Optimization
Expertise in integrated well‑pad‑to‑facility‑to‑sales system behavior
Ability to identify system bottlenecks and constraint propagation under transient conditions
Application of modeling insight to optimize uptime, minimize instability, and enable scalable autonomy
Value Delivery
Enable measurable production, uptime, and reliability improvements
Lead Facilities Engineer \- Wellsite Autonomous Operations
United States of America, Colorado, Denver 4 days ago
Job category
Engineering
Experience level
Senior
Relocation available
This role is not eligible for relocation
Job type
Professionals
Travel required
Up to 25% travel should be expected with this role
Job code
RQ107899
Job Description
Role Synopsis
The Lead Facilities Engineer – Wellsite Autonomous Operations serves as the single enterprise authority for facilities system, compression, and flow network behavior supporting autonomous and semi‑autonomous wellsite operations. This role is accountable for ensuring that facilities architectures, compression strategies, and surface network designs enable safe, reliable, and value‑optimized autonomous operation at scale, while remaining aligned with enterprise governance, process safety, operating model standards, and lifecycle cost objectives.
The role holds authority within delegated limits for facilities standards supporting autonomy and escalates safety‑critical, system‑level, or cross‑discipline decisions as required. This position converts field‑level facilities innovation and modeling insight into repeatable, governed enterprise advantage.
Scope \& Accountability
Own the enterprise facilities standards that underpin autonomous and semi‑autonomous wellsite operations.
Serve as the facilities counterpart to Automation, Production Engineering, and Operations leadership within the WAO governance model.
**Ensure facilities system design enables:**
Compression operability across variable operating envelopes
Stable, predictable flow under transient conditions
Autonomous control strategies that respect physical system limits
Economics supporting the impact in terms of discrete value and potential scale
Act as the authoritative voice on surface network behavior, including gas, liquids, and multiphase flow interactions across pads, trunklines, and compression stations.
Performance Management \& Learning
Partner with WAO leadership to define success criteria, KPIs, and OKRs for facilities‑enabled autonomous operations.
**Establish outcome‑based performance measures tied to:**
Compression availability and unmanned auto restart, remote supported restart, and remote diagnostics for first\-visit resolution
Flow assurance stability under transient operation
Constraint removal and debottlenecking effectiveness
Lead or support root cause failure analyses (RCFAs) for material facilities, compression, or surface‑network‑driven events.
**Ensure RCFA outcomes are translated into:**
Updated standards
Modeling assumptions and constraints
Deployment guardrails for autonomous operation
Standards \& Governance
Define, steward, and maintain facilities standards supporting WAO, including:
Compression system control envelopes and operability limits
Surface network design criteria for autonomous and transient operation
Facilities integration requirements with automation and control strategies
**Establish clear criteria for:**
Standard application
Approved deviations
Required escalation for safety‑critical or value‑material decisions
**Ensure facilities designs are consistent with:**
Process safety and mechanical integrity expectations
Operability across steady‑state and transient conditions
Enterprise lifecycle cost and reliability objectives
Minimum Qualifications
Experience
12\+ years of Facilities Engineering experience in US onshore oil and gas operations.
Demonstrated enterprise or multi‑asset technical influence.
Recognized internally as a technical authority in facilities systems, pipeline networks, and compression.
Technical Domain Expertise
Compression Systems
Deep expertise in gas compression technologies used in US onshore operations
Understanding of compressor performance envelopes, turndown limitations, recycle strategies, and failure modes
Ability to define compression requirements that enable autonomous and semi‑autonomous operation without compromising equipment integrity
Dynamic \& Transient Modeling
Advanced experience with dynamic modeling of gas and liquid flowline networks
**Ability to evaluate transient behavior during:**
Startups and shutdowns
Rate changes
Equipment trips and restarts
Translate modeling outputs into practical design constraints and operational guardrails
Surface Network Optimization
Expertise in integrated well‑pad‑to‑facility‑to‑sales system behavior
Ability to identify system bottlenecks and constraint propagation under transient conditions
Application of modeling insight to optimize uptime, minimize instability, and enable scalable autonomy
Value Delivery
Enable measurable production, uptime, and reliability improvements
Posted: 2026-03-11