Production Engineer

Strathcona Resources Ltd. (“Strathcona”) is a Calgary, Alberta based oil and gas production and development company focused on maximizing oil and gas recovery from its low decline, high free cash flow oil and gas resource base. Strathcona's operations, infrastructure and land position are focused in Alberta and Saskatchewan.

Strathcona is always looking for people focused on growth, both personal and professional. Those who love a challenge and get excited at the prospect of collaborating with talented people to continuously improve and innovate on tasks both large and small.

We are actively seeking a

to join our Lloydminster Thermal team. Reporting to the Manager, Production – Lloydminster Thermal, this role is responsible for production engineering activities across the assets. The successful candidate will work closely with field operation and the asset team to optimize the production rates, facility and pipeline design and operation, reservoir efficiency, equipment longevity, and overall operating costs. This role will plan and execute base and development capital projects.

This position can be based in either our Calgary office or at the Lloydminster field site.

- Provide production engineering expertise with multidisciplinary teams to drive cost effective production optimization decisions.

- Maintain strong interface with field operations team for daily surveillance and troubleshooting of SAGD wells.

- Develop & maintain well integrity monitoring program to ensure safe & reliable operations.

- Recommend well optimization techniques or value adding workovers.

- Monitor well pair data quality to ensure accurate production accounting reporting.

Qualifications And Skills

- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering with a minimum of 5 years’ experience, with preference for SAGD operations

- Registered, or eligible for registration, as a professional engineer with APEGA or APEGS.

- Highly self-motivated, with excellent time management, analytical, and problem-solving skills.

- Direct field experience is a strong asset, providing practical insights into production operations.

- Detailed understanding of SAGD process with experience in well design, artificial lift, completions, drilling and surface facilities.

- Strong analytical skills; experience using advanced tools such as PI systems, Tableau and familiarity with TWBS is highly valued.

Great things aren’t done by one person, they’re done by a team.

Strathcona is committed to developing a high-performance culture through collaboration, trust, and agility. We value our work, our communities, and our commitments – but most of all, we value the team of people who make what we do possible.

If you have what it takes to be a great Strathcona team member, we want to hear from you. We appreciate all interest in this opportunity but only those selected to advance through the process will be contacted.