Exploitation Engineer

Tundra Oil & Gas is a Manitoba-based oil and gas exploration and production company and a wholly owned subsidiary of Winnipeg-based James Richardson & Sons, Limited. Tundra's head office is in Winnipeg, with additional offices in Virden, Estevan, and Calgary. At Tundra, we believe that our people are the foundation of our success, and we are dedicated to growing our company in a sustainable and disciplined way. This philosophy has served us well since our inception in 1980. Today, Tundra is a team 360-strong, and a leader in the Manitoba and southeast Saskatchewan oil industry. We take pride in supporting the communities in which we operate and stewarding the resources we manage for today and for the future. We are committed to working together and to getting everyone home safe every day.

THE OPPORTUNITY: Tundra is excited to announce an opportunity for an Exploitation Engineer, within our Reservoir Engineering Department, based out of our Calgary, AB office for a 12-month term position. The successful candidate will be eligible to participate in Tundra's hybrid work schedule.

The Exploitation Engineer will collaborate with multidisciplinary team and will be responsible for:

• Monitor well production performance, production modelling based on flow regimes and reserve estimation using unconventional techniques, as required
• Identify and provide economic justifications for new drills and workover opportunities

• Participate in the design & interpretation of reservoir surveillance methods to characterize the reservoir, evaluate the effectiveness of well completions and development scenarios
• Participate in multidisciplinary teams to conduct well-reviews and identify workover candidates
• Work with reservoir specialists in simulation to assess well design and spacing for both primary and secondary recovery
• Prepare yearly budget targets for both production and capital programs and project managing to ensure the targets are met
• Support development of long-range-plans to efficiently de-risk contingent resources over the multiyear horizon
• Engage with teams to provide appropriate performance lookbacks of drilling programs to Senior Management
• Preparing yearly budget targets for both production and capital programs and project managing to ensure the targets are met.
• Run project economics and sensitivities to assess viability of individual wells, infill pilots, workovers and waterflood projects
• Working with geosciences, production, facilities and land professionals to identify and evaluate opportunities to create value
• Conducting internal mid-year reserves assessment and stewarding the year end reserves process with third party evaluators

Candidates for this position will possess the following qualifications and competencies:

• Professional Engineer or Engineer In Training with 5+ years active and progressive experience
• Familiarity with field operations, in particular light oil operations an asset
• Excellent knowledge of reservoir engineering techniques, well forecasting methodology, reservoir studies, and economic analysis
• Experience with software's such Accumap, Mosaic, and Spotfire is an asset
• Well developed teamwork skills (collaboration, communication, participation)
• Well developed critical thinking skills (ability to apply logic and challenge assumptions, conclusions and make appropriate interventions)
• Excellent presentation as well as written and oral communication skills
• Demonstrates a sense of urgency and strong commitment to achieving goals; ability to work in challenging, fast paced environment
• Comfortable making recommendations to senior management.
• Prior Business Team Lead and/or supervisory experience with the ability to lead a multi-disciplinary team of individuals is an asset.
• Willingness to travel to field sites

We recognize that people come with a wealth of experience and talent beyond just the technical requirements of a job. If your experience is close to what you see listed here, please still consider applying. Diversity of experience and skills combined with passion is a key to innovation and excellence. Therefore, we encourage people from all backgrounds to apply to our positions.

If you are interested in joining our rapidly growing team, please visit the Employment section of our website at www.tundraoilandgas.com and apply on-line to submit your resume by March 21, 2025.
We wish to thank all candidates for their interest; however, only those being considered for interviews will be contacted.