Job Description

This Opportunity

Be involved in projects with our Regulatory Engineering & Geological Services Team and be a part of a growing organization that meets our client’s objectives and solves their challenges. WSP is currently initiating a search for a Senior Petroleum Engineer for our Baton Rouge, LA offices. The Regulatory Engineering & Geological Services Team supports clients with subsurface geological and engineering concerns for site selection, feasibility, permitting, and petitioning of underground injection control wells for nonhazardous/hazardous waste injection, cavern storage, and carbon sequestration. The team also interacts regularly with state and federal regulatory agencies on behalf of our clients.

Your Impact

• Support industrial waste disposal wells projects.

• Comfortable working with subsurface uncertainty.

• Develop and review regulatory documentation developed for various underground injection control wells.

• Provide expertise in a broad range of petroleum engineering activities related to underground storage and other porous media applications, including but not limited to reservoir, drilling, workovers and completions.

• Geophysical log interpretation.

• Directly perform engineering evaluations and analyses such as volumetrics, reservoir characterization, and deliverability and flow calculations in a variety of depositional scenarios for commodities such as natural gas, carbon dioxide, hydrogen and disposal liquids.

• Interface between Regulatory Geological Services Team and Drilling, Mechanical Integrity Testing, and Workover Groups.

• Participate in feasibility studies, supports drilling activities (remotely), supports regulatory compliance issues, and other duties as assigned.

• Act as primary contact with client and regulating agency on small and medium sized projects.

• Complete high-quality deliverables on-time within project scope-of-work and budgeted hours.

• Work with multidisciplinary team of geologists, engineers, CAD specialists, and administrative assistants to deliver successful projects

• Other duties as assigned.

Who You Are

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Petroleum Engineering, or closely related discipline.

• 15+ years of relevant post education experience in petroleum, reservoir or drilling, including Class I injection well experience

• Experience with regular and sustained client and subcontractor engagement.

• Experience with technical writing and developing large technical documents.

• Experience with well design, well construction, downhole monitoring instrumentation, and drilling operations.

• Willingness to travel to project sites, client and regulator offices, industry conferences, etc.

• Travel expected to be < 10%.

• Exercise responsible and ethical decision-making regarding company funds, resources and conduct and adhere to WSP’s Code of Conduct and related policies and procedures.

• Proven track record of upholding workplace safety and ability to abide by WSP’s health, safety and drug/alcohol and harassment policies.

• This role is subject to a client mandated drug/alcohol testing policy. As such, employee may be subject to random drug/alcohol tests. A copy of the client mandated drug/alcohol testing policy will be provided during employee onboarding and is available upon applicant request.

• Must successfully complete and pass WSP’s Motor Vehicle screening.

Preferred Qualifications

• Petroleum Engineer with Class I well experience.

• Drilling and workover experience for deep injectino wells.

• Familiarity or experience with well testing and reservoir modeling.

• Wastewater injection well experience, Class I programs, EOR with either water floods or carbon dioxide, or others.

• Permitting experience in Underground Injection Control (UIC).

• Project management experience and training with multidisciplinary teams and multiple external stakeholders.

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About WSP

WSP USA is the U.S. operating company of WSP, one of the world's leading engineering and professional services firms. Dedicated to serving local communities, we are engineers, planners, technical experts, strategic advisors and construction management professionals. WSP USA designs lasting solutions in the buildings, transportation, energy, water and environment markets. With more than 15,000 employees in over 300 offices across the U.S., we partner with our clients to help communities prosper.

WSP provides a flexible and agile workplace model while meeting client needs. Employees are also afforded a comprehensive suite of benefits including medical, dental, vision, disability, life, and retirement savings focused on providing health and financial stability throughout the employee’s career.

At WSP, we want to give our employees the challenges they seek to grow their careers and knowledge base. Your daily contributions to your team will be essential in meeting client objectives, goals and challenges. Are you ready to get started?

WSP USA (and all of its U.S. companies) is an Equal Opportunity Employer Race/Age/Color/Religion/Sex/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity/National Origin/Disability or Protected Veteran Status.

The selected candidate must be authorized to work in the United States.

NOTICE TO THIRD PARTY AGENCIES:

WSP does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters, employment agencies, or other staffing services. Unsolicited resumes include any resume or hiring document sent to WSP in the absence of a signed Service Agreement where WSP has expressly requested recruitment/staffing services specific to the position at hand. Any unsolicited resumes, including those submitted to hiring managers or other business leaders, will become the property of WSP and WSP will have the right to hire that candidate without reservation – no fee or other compensation will be owed or paid to the recruiter, employment agency, or other staffing service.

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