Production Manager - Powder River

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The Manager, Production Engineering is responsible for overseeing production and operations for the Powder River Basin, partnering with asset teams, facility, technology, and infrastructure leadership. The role leads the production operations department staff, making recommendations to Business Unit leadership, and supervises a team of specialized contributors and support staff. The role manages employees across multiple locations and ensures production and LOE metrics stay within budget. The role also oversees Powder River production strategies. The role is pivotal in optimizing production operations, reducing costs, managing risks, driving technological innovation, fostering collaboration, and developing talent to achieve operational excellence and maximize profitability.

• Provides strategic leadership and direction for the Production Engineering and Operations teams ensuring alignment with organizational objectives and industry best practices.
• Supports delivery of operational results for assigned asset area(s), including safety, reliability, volumes, costs, stakeholders, and projects.
• Manages and develops a team of leaders and field personnel for an assigned area to execute value-creation strategies that meet production and cost reduction targets, as well as facilitates and supports field-to-office and office-to-field communication and relationships.
• Oversees implementation and monitoring of plans generated by engineering staff, providing support, and sharing feedback between field and engineering staff to ensure full understanding of activity plan before implementation.
• Oversees supervisors, guides experienced specialists, and drives continuous improvement, fostering a culture of excellence, innovation, and effective communication within the leadership team.
• Works with division leadership on 3 to 5 year vision, goals, and governance for assigned asset area(s) and oversees and evaluates supervisors, superintendents, and engineers to ensure field operations are performed in a safe and cost-effective manner.
• Communicates departmental activities, articulates strategic goals, and creates an empowering environment for team achievement, contributing to career growth and collaborative success.
• Leads budget preparation, including capital, production, and LOE goals and provides leadership in developing and maintaining positive relationships with external stakeholders.
• Fosters leadership excellence, drives innovation, and ensures seamless coordination across disciplines, emphasizing continuous improvement within the team.
• Maximizes cash flow from operations through optimizing production and LOE, maintaining a future focus and champions safety, environmental, and regulatory programs to ensure compliance and sustainability.
• Manages talent across the team, while driving workforce and workload planning, resourcing, prioritization, employee selection, performance management, compensation management, career development, and ensuring effective operational management.
• Develops and aligns operational direction, sets actionable team goals aligned with multi-year roadmaps, and effectively communicates strategy. Education:
• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering or any other related discipline and/or commensurate work experience is required.

Experience:

• 10+ years of relevant experience in areas such as Production Engineering, Reservoir Engineering, Well Operations or a related field.

Qualified applicants are considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, status as a protected veteran or other characteristics protected by law.

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