• Job Description

  Req#: 11393

  Company Overview

  Our primary product is energy, and where there is affordable, abundant energy, people are healthier, have access to better education, and are given greater opportunities to elevate their families to higher standards of living.

  Nearly 3 billion people — roughly one-third of the global population — live without electricity or without clean cooking facilities. We are committed to providing energy in innovative and more sustainable ways to help raise the standard of living for those living in energy poverty and to meet the ongoing demands of people and economies around the world.

  The products we deliver power increasingly cleaner electricity across the globe, fuel tractors and trucks, make fertilizer to keep the world's food supply on the table, and heat our schools, hospitals and businesses.

  Our employees bring a wide range of talents and skills to the job every day to tackle complex business challenges. We believe in providing a truly rewarding work environment supported by a benefits platform that ranks among the best in our peer group. Our company offers career development opportunities where employees can grow personally and professionally. We promote employee benefits that cultivate a family-friendly work environment and focus on our employees' overall well-being.

  We are committed to being a workplace where all employees are valued and can thrive with a sense of belonging. Our commitment to diversity and inclusion benefits our individual employees, our company and our external stakeholders; we are better as an organization when various ideas and perspectives are brought to the table.

  Apache Corporation is a wholly owned subsidiary of APA Corporation (NASDAQ:APA). Apache has operations in the United States, Egypt's Western Desert and the United Kingdom's North Sea and a sister company with exploration opportunities offshore Suriname. Whether supporting Apache, APA Corporation or one of its subsidiaries, team members are employed by Apache Corporation.

  For additional information about APA Corporation, please visit:

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  www.apacorp.com

  Specific Responsibilities

  The Drilling, Completions & Workover Director - Performance Management role for Apache Corporation will be a member of Apache’s Drilling, Completions & Workover team at the company’s Houston, TX office reporting to the VP, Drilling, Completions & Workover (DCW). Requires collaborating with DCW Managers to drive long-term, sustainable performance. Accomplished by managing a performance team of engineers, analyst, and technical support.

  Purpose/Job Summary:

  • Lead DCW long-term performance improvement in three key areas – operations support, data, and technology, and coordinate technical training needs.
  • Operational Support
  • Cover global operations and engineering needs solving complex problems, running analytics, support performance improvement efforts, conduct large failure investigations, and steward management system. Effort will include daily surveillance of active operations and follow-up with operations teams on problems and incidents requiring larger scale effort along with participating in peer reviews. Other support includes development of detailed drilling roadmaps, offset analysis, high-end modeling, and benchmarking.

  Data and Technology:

  • Theme is a data-driven approach to performance improvement. Maximize and leverage digital infrastructure to deliver performance metrics, real-time data analysis, models, and data analytics. Drive efforts for data quality, standardization, streamline data flow, collection, and simplify analysis effort. Important aspect is developing, maintaining, and evaluating Key Performance Indicators (KPI). Look for ways to simply engineering and operations digital workflow and use of data.
  • Deploy and manage project standardizing all drilling rig data in one suppler aggregation system coupled to daily reporting tool. Enables a rig-centric advisory system incorporating an artificial intelligence engine with automated physics modeling. Effort includes managing third party suppliers, coordinate field and office training, and integration following technology roadmap to future automation.
  • Additional requirement to stay abreast of technology that can be leveraged to add value to Apache. Explore and vet technology to bring forward to the teams that could add value and increase performance. Once sanctioned, follow through by coordinating and assisting with management of change leading to a successful implementation.

  Training:

  • Coordinate and lead effort for technical training requirements with fit for purpose training materials and methods. Includes working with outside suppliers to develop curriculum, material, and scheduling. Effort covers both wellsite operations and engineering.

  Qualifications & Experience

  The successful candidate will need to have demonstrated experience and competency in the three key areas noted above including management experience. This requires strong engineering and operations knowledge, success with performance improvement projects, understanding data to drive to deeper insights, and experience with technical training programs. The position is expected to work effectively across organization Functions and Assets in a collaborative manner. Travel will be required, but not frequent.

  In addition, the following is required:

  • Bachelor's degree in engineering
  • 25+ years of industry experience in engineering, operations, data analytics, and project management
  • Diverse experience with O&G Operator, Service Company and/or Rig Contractor
  • Operations experience offshore and land drilling, completions, and workover knowledge
  • Use and analysis of high frequency data with understanding of machine learning
  • Excellent communicator with both field and office, across organization, and executive management
  • Understand use of quality tools i.e., root cause analysis, statistical control, QA/QC programs
  • Knowledge of subsurface geology, reservoir, and petrophysics a plus

  Competencies

  The successful candidate will lead by example through successfully demonstrating the following:

  • Core Competencies
    • Communication: Writes, speaks, and presents information effectively and persuasively across communication setting;
    • Results: Pursues work with energy, drive, and results orientation to positively impact Apache’s business success;
    • Collaboration: Works in partnership with others and encourages different perspectives, while building and maintaining trust; and
    • Culture: Willingness and ability to align one’s behavior with the needs, priorities, and goals of Apache.

  • Leadership Competencies
    • Servant Leadership: Inspires and enables performance excellence through feedback, empathy, development and empowerment;
    • Strategic Mindset: Applies business acumen to see the big picture, understand business issues, and exhibit financial stewardship;
    • Change Leadership: Inspires change by challenging the status quo, generating support, and executing improvement projects to achieve business outcomes; and
    • Leading Effective Teams: Enables performance excellence through effective structure, delegation, and motivation.

  Apache Statement on Hiring

  To provide genuine equal opportunity to all people, it is the policy of Apache Corporation and its subsidiaries to base all employment-related decisions and actions exclusively on employment-related criteria. To provide genuine equal opportunity to all people, it is the policy of Apache Corporation and its subsidiaries to provide broad dissemination of job opportunities, as consistent with the nature of the positions. To provide genuine equal opportunity to all people, it is the policy of Apache Corporation and its subsidiaries to review its employment-related policies and actions on a regular basis to ensure that their application is consistent with their intent.

  Equal Employment Opportunity

• About the company

  Apache Corporation is an American energy company engaged in hydrocarbon exploration.

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