Reservoir Engineering Manager

Fort Worth, United States | Posted on 10/19/2026

CSI Recruiting is working with a Fort Worth-based oil company in their need to hire an experienced Reservoir Engineering Manager. Our client is a well established E&P company, with plans to grow via drilling and development, and is actively evaluating significant bolt-on acquisitions.

This is a growth role – not a back-fill, but a newly created position supporting development planning and acquisition evaluation. Our client maintains a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment. As such, the client would prefer a candidate who has worked in a similar style company, and in a similar role. The position is first and foremost a technical role, however the right candidate will contribute to strategic decisions, vendor selection, project management initiatives and work as a leader in the organization.

For the Reservoir Engineering Manager role, our client is seeking an innovative and results-driven Reservoir Engineering professional specializing in the following:

• A development-focused reservoir engineer who can implement and complete a project, and a professional who can lead the conversation.
• Able to develop, communicate and defend technical recommendations and drive projects through execution
• Substantial unconventional experience required and Permian experience strongly preferred
• Client needs this person to employ sound decision making methods to complex projects, including economic analysis.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Demonstrate ability to solve complex problems.
• Evaluate and monitor well performances
• Generate production well forecasts
• Work closely with other departments
• Must have strong knowledge of economic evaluation and financial metrics.
• Improve efficiency in data analysis
• Support reserve estimates, forecast updates and coordination with independent reserve engineers

• Extensive exposure to unconventional resources, ideally having worked in multiple resource plays with a focus on the Permian
• Minimum education:
  
  Bachelor's Degree required - Petroleum Engineering is preferred
• Well versed in economic modelling software (ARIES, Combo Curve)
• Experience utilizing information from multiple public data sources
• A minimum of 10 years of working as a reservoir engineer for an independent E&P company focused on unconventional assets in the Lower 48 in the US