Facility Engineer

About the Permian

Straddling West Texas and Southeastern New Mexico, the Permian is the most prolific oil and gas basin in America and the engine behind the country’s energy renaissance. Nationally, it provides about 40% of oil and 15% of gas production and plays a critical role in making the U.S. a leading energy exporter.

The merger of Exxon Mobil and Pioneer creates an Unconventional business with the largest, high-return development potential in the Permian Basin. The combined company’s more than 1.4 million net acres in the Delaware and Midland basins have an estimated 16 billion barrels of oil equivalent resource. In 2023, we produced, on average 612,000 barrels a day in the Permian Basin, and we’re aiming to produce 1 million barrels per day from our Permian assets by the end of 2027.

Investments in infrastructure from New Mexico to the Gulf Coast enhance logistics and integrated value. We’ve advanced gathering and processing facilities, including the Cowboy central delivery point. Integration maximizes resource development through to fuels, lubes, and chemicals. The Permian Basin business unit also has the distinction of being the first at Exxon Mobil to unveil and execute a plan for net zero Scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions in operated assets by 2030, as part of the Corporation’s broader 2050 net zero ambition.

Over 1800 employees work and live in Midland, Odessa, Carlsbad, and the surrounding areas, all of which offer easy access to national parks and unrivaled outdoor recreational opportunities. Employees in the area also get to enjoy the world-renowned Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta, which Exxon Mobil has proudly sponsored since 2019. As a major operator in the Permian Basin, Exxon Mobil invests heavily in local community development through the Permian Strategic Partnership, an industry consortium that works to enhance quality of life by improving infrastructure, healthcare, housing, education and workforce development.

As a facility engineer your job will be to provide technical support to fellow engineers on the team and to operations for surface facilities within the Permian Basin. You will leverage your expertise in engineering and project management to provide operations support, project execution and surveillance for surface facilities while ensuring compliance with regulatory standards and business objectives. This role requires a blend of technical expertise, project management and stakeholder engagement.

This position will be based in Carlsbad, NM.

Operations Support

• Ensure engineering controls are in place to enable safe facility operations and compliance with applicable permits and regulations.
• Identify causes for facility downtime/upsets and evaluate remediation.
• Regular surveillance of facilities.
• Identify issues, assess root causes, and formulate plans to address root causes.
• Participate in or lead incident investigations.
• Identify causes of facility flaring/venting and evaluate remediation.
• Develop and maintain close working relationships with Operations stakeholders.
• Liaison with regulatory and compliance teams.

Project Management and Execution

• Steward facilities modifications
• Document proposed changes and stakeholder engagement via Management of Change process
• Evaluate and address risks associated with process changes (Risk Assessments, HAZOPs, Facilities Integrity workshop, etc.)
• Maintain updated facility critical drawings and documents (P&IDs, C&Es etc.).
• Project management of facility upgrade projects
• Identify opportunities to optimize compression station operation, de-bottleneck, and reduce operating expenditures.
• Develop and justify capital spend to support proposed facility upgrades.
• Define project scope, budget, procurement plan, risk management and accountability of spend on projects
• Execute project from FEED to Operations handover.

Development and Stewardship of Surveillance Tools

• Ensure facility process supports accurate and compliant allocations
• Development of tools to track and report key facility metrics.
• Maintain an understanding of relevant industry codes, standards, best practices, technologies and…