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Our core assets provide services for customers in the Delaware Basin in West Texas and New Mexico, and the DJ Basin in northeastern Colorado, and the Powder River Basin in Northeast Wyoming. Additional assets and investments are located in South Texas, Utah, and Southwest Wyoming.

We’re engaged in the business of gathering, compressing, treating, processing, and transporting natural gas; gathering, stabilizing and transporting condensate, natural gas liquids (NGLs) and crude oil; and gathering, transporting, recycling, treating and disposing of produced water for our customers. In our capacity as a natural gas processor, we also buy and sell natural gas, NGLs, and condensate on our behalf and our customers under certain gas processing contracts.

Western Midstream (WES) is publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol, WES.

This position is in Western Midstream LP Maverick Basin Gathering area of South Texas. Candidate will be a Field Foreman within a team environment working with other groups to optimize asset value within a specific geographic area. Candidate will also collaborate with Production, HSSE, Land, Regulatory, Supply Chain and other support groups to ensure operations compliance.

The ideal candidate for this position should possess the following qualifications:

• Minimum 5 years of experience in oil and gas production compressor facilities operations required
• Working knowledge of standard oilfield construction drawings: P&’s, Cause & Effect’s, Area Classification, etc. required
• Working knowledge of electrical and automation systems related to oil and gas production
• Candidate must have excellent communication skills and the ability to effectively interact with engineering, technical peers and management.
• Ability to conduct employee performance coaching and to manage complex scheduling
• Must have strong organization and planning skills and be flexible and able to manage through change.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills as well as problem solving skills required
• Basic computer skills including proficiency with Microsoft Outlook, Word and Excel required

• Responsible for oil and natural gas gathering systems operation required to meet company standards and objectives, by maximizing allowable production and minimizing operating costs
• Adhere to equipment repair manuals, mechanical schematics, industry standards, and company standards
• Understand basic compressor runs, load curves, and pump curves. Understands gas piping, facility design and operations
• Communicates equipment, compression performance and environmental problems to supervisor
• Provide supervisory and technical support for natural gas gathering, compression, treating and processing facilities
• Supply guidance, support, and compliance for Process Safety Management with an understanding of OSHA  and Department of Transportation regulated pipelines.
• Insure adherence of employee safe work practices and compliance for environmental operating permit requirements. Implement field personnel training and safety program
• Must develop facility operating budgets and control operating costs for assigned facilities; to manage small as well as large projects and scheduled maintenance of assigned facilities
• Supervise gathering personnel and maintain manpower and gathering system operating costs at a minimum consistent with safe, ethical, efficient and environmentally effective operations.
• Keep equipment in efficient operating condition, maintain equipment maintenance schedules and monitor downtime (LACT units, compressors, dehydration units, vapor recovery units etc.)
• Accomplish assigned responsibilities with minimal supervision and work…