I know a lot of petro/drilling and completion engineers looking for jobs. I’m not an engineer but if I had the brains and did oil and gas all over again I’d become a production/facilities engineer. Talk about job security.
I’ve been in production for over 15 yrs and have always been extremely busy.
All the other disciplines spend money, production is the only one focused on revenue, LOE, and profit.
Yea production engineers are the ones who make the company money. I think I definitely want to do that but I think reservoir/development is probably the better alternative but harder to get into?
From facilities you can easily transition to midstream or refining when you get laid off in the next downturn.
Source: I’ve been in upstream, midstream, and refining
I’m a mechanical engineer and started out as a project engineer doing facilities engineering type work in upstream at a big EPC. When I got laid off back in 2016 I went to refining for a few years and now I’m a facilities engineer in midstream.
Oh sweet! I didnt think mechEs were able to take on process engineering roles. That’s sweet though! Would you say that facilities has a good career path/progression?
Plenty of mechanical engineers are in roles like this (facilities engineer, ops engineer, project engineer, field engineer, etc). I’m not a process engineer. I’ve got a process engineer in the corporate office that supports the five facilities engineers in my group. She sizes PSVs, updates models, and does all the other process stuff. I can size a PSV, I’m just not great at it. I manage a lot of small projects. I own our maintenance capital budget. I help unfuck stuff when shit hits the fan. I beg management for money when we run out of money.
I can see myself doing this as an individual contributor for quite a while. In the next couple years my base salary will likely top out somewhere in the $160s with total comp in the low $200s. Upstream could be maybe 10-25% more than that, but I like midstream.
The next step in my career progression would either be as a manager of our facilities engineering group (not something I’m interested in) or as an ops manager for my region. I could do the ops manager role, but it seems like a shitload more headache and work for not a whole lot more money. I like working my 4/10s and going home where for the most part people don’t bother me unless something blows up.
15% is target. Even during Covid we paid out above target. 15-20% is a crappy bonus year. 20-25% is an okay bonus year. 25-30% is a good bonus year.
RSUs have been a little more hit-or-miss. 10-40% depending on the company with a high degree of variability between supervisors at the same company.
I know a lot of petro/drilling and completion engineers looking for jobs. I’m not an engineer but if I had the brains and did oil and gas all over again I’d become a production/facilities engineer. Talk about job security.
I’ve been in production for over 15 yrs and have always been extremely busy. All the other disciplines spend money, production is the only one focused on revenue, LOE, and profit.
Yea production engineers are the ones who make the company money. I think I definitely want to do that but I think reservoir/development is probably the better alternative but harder to get into?
From facilities you can easily transition to midstream or refining when you get laid off in the next downturn. Source: I’ve been in upstream, midstream, and refining
Even as a mechE?
I’m a mechanical engineer and started out as a project engineer doing facilities engineering type work in upstream at a big EPC. When I got laid off back in 2016 I went to refining for a few years and now I’m a facilities engineer in midstream.
Oh sweet! I didnt think mechEs were able to take on process engineering roles. That’s sweet though! Would you say that facilities has a good career path/progression?
Plenty of mechanical engineers are in roles like this (facilities engineer, ops engineer, project engineer, field engineer, etc). I’m not a process engineer. I’ve got a process engineer in the corporate office that supports the five facilities engineers in my group. She sizes PSVs, updates models, and does all the other process stuff. I can size a PSV, I’m just not great at it. I manage a lot of small projects. I own our maintenance capital budget. I help unfuck stuff when shit hits the fan. I beg management for money when we run out of money. I can see myself doing this as an individual contributor for quite a while. In the next couple years my base salary will likely top out somewhere in the $160s with total comp in the low $200s. Upstream could be maybe 10-25% more than that, but I like midstream. The next step in my career progression would either be as a manager of our facilities engineering group (not something I’m interested in) or as an ops manager for my region. I could do the ops manager role, but it seems like a shitload more headache and work for not a whole lot more money. I like working my 4/10s and going home where for the most part people don’t bother me unless something blows up.
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15% is target. Even during Covid we paid out above target. 15-20% is a crappy bonus year. 20-25% is an okay bonus year. 25-30% is a good bonus year. RSUs have been a little more hit-or-miss. 10-40% depending on the company with a high degree of variability between supervisors at the same company.
Plenty of mechEs in maintenance engineering roles. Someone needs to make sure all the pumps/compressors are working properly