Vacancy Overview
Field Service Engineer – Houma, LA
Our client is seeking a Senior Field Service Engineer to work within their facilities located in Houma, LA, for an initial one-year assignment.
Primary Responsibilities:
Monitoring and servicing of the chemicals for the offshore platforms; supervisor of ordering, warehousing, and logistics of chemicals. Working with customers for flow assurance and asset integrity to ensure customer compliance and satisfaction in a timely manner.
Detailed Responsibilities:
- Maintain safe work practices to create a safe work culture
- Guarantee daily technical analysis and identification of the key points of the application needs related to oilfield chemical and project applications
- Application of best practices and lessons learned in terms of "flow assurance" and "asset integrity"
- Support the product development and research teams for new products selection and optimization
- Provide superior technical support to the customer
- Ensure the activities necessary for a timely response to the issues or process improvements related to the application of field products
- Uncover new opportunities with existing and potential customers
- Identify the best solution for treatments and provide data to support product recommendations at the customer level
- Plan/manage time and resources for effective coverage of territory, communications and other responsibilities
- Complete chemical service documents, call reports and other paperwork in a timely manner
- Train employees and external customers on product applications
- Shares key learnings on new applications/treatments with the Upstream Chemicals team to foster replication
- Report on all new or unique pertinent market conditions, competitive activities, and product performance information to Operations Manager
- Manage chemical surveillance, inventory management, and chemical usage
Skill Profile:
- Bachelor’s Degree in a Science related filed is preferred (Chemical Engineering, Geology, Biology, etc.) or a related discipline along with a minimum of 5+ years technical sales experience in relation to upstream chemicals and chemical treatment processes for the upstream O&G industry.
- Candidates without a bachelor’s degree, but with 10+ years of upstream technical chemical sales experience will be considered
- Strong focus on asset integrity and flow assurance management
- Experience in technical support activities with customers
- In-depth knowledge of hydrocarbons extraction and production processes
- In-depth knowledge of problems related to the use of chemicals in the oilfield sector, in particular for the O&G production sector both onshore and offshore
- Self-motivated, reliable, and accountable individual
- Strong problem solving/troubleshooting skills
- Strong people skills and ability to work with cross-functional team
- Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously and accommodate changing circumstances
- Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal skills
- Excellent multi-tasking abilities and organizational skills
- English - Italian is a plus
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite and SAP
- Technical modeling is a plus
Geographical Mobility:
- Availability for business trips abroad, Alaska, Mexico, and frequent travel to the field/offshore
- Available to live in the vicinity of Houma, LA.
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