Lead Production Technician at BP in Orla, TX

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Job Family Group: Operations Group Job Description: bpx energy, a major oil and gas producer in the United States, leverages its expertise in unconventional gas, including shale, to deliver hydrocarbon production and technical knowledge worldwide. With operations in Texas and Louisiana, our US onshore business has become both a premier oil and gas producer and a leader in reducing methane emissions. As part of BP, a global industry leader, we foster a high-energy, high-intensity environment built on accountability, collegiality, innovation, and empowerment. At bpx, we support our people to learn and grow in a diverse and challenging environment where safety, operational excellence, continuous improvement, and teamwork are valued. Discover your place with us and help our business meet the challenges of reimagining and reinventing the future of energy. Lead Production Technician ROLE SYNOPSIS: The Lead Production Technician is a field-based technical leader who supports the Production Foreman by converting priorities into safe, reliable, and efficient field execution. This role serves as the primary technical resource and escalation point for Production Technicians and drives production uptime, troubleshooting, asset stewardship, and operational discipline across an assigned area. KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES: Own the day-to-day technical quality of field operations within the assigned area and ensure Production Technicians execute safely and consistently. Serve as the primary technical resource and escalation point for Production Technicians. Support startups, shutdowns, troubleshooting, and abnormal operations, providing on-site or remote technical support to resolve issues and stabilize production. Escalate unresolved risks and issues to the Production Foreman with clear problem definition, field context, and a recommended path forward. Train and mentor Production Technicians on proper use of PI Vision, CygNet, Ranger, and Power BI to identify deferring wells, trend production performance, and manage deferment priorities. Review high-volume pads daily, monitor high-touch wells, and initiate corrective actions to support stable production. Monitor gathering-system performance, alarms, and well behavior and coordinate actions on constraints. Use PI Vision, CygNet, and Power BI to identify abnormal trends, underperformers, and downtime events before they escalate. Evaluate high-spend project performance, including gas lift conversions, ESP installations, and base-well tie-ins. Coordinate production recovery during midstream outages, weather events, and other high-impact or unplanned disruptions. Manage deferment using Power BI tools, Code Manager, PI Vision, CygNet, and Ranger to maintain accurate production-loss tracking and prioritize the highest-impact items. Partner with the Optimization team on deferment, well issues, and troubleshooting to drive production uplift and resolve chronic problems. Align daily priorities with the Production Foreman and coordinate technicians, contractors, Maintenance, Automation, and Engineering resources. Track work to completion, communicate remaining risks or open items, and use Ranger to direct technician efforts toward the highest-impact priorities. Identify nesting opportunities to consolidate work, reduce mobilization costs, and improve field efficiency across technician routes. Improve problem definition and maintenance-notification quality, support repairs, and verify issue resolution. Identify repeat failures and collaborate with Production Engineering, Facilities Engineering, Artificial Lift Engineering, Automation, and Reliability teams on chronic equipment issues and active projects. Lead by example in hazard recognition, safety observations, stop-work authority, and operational discipline. Support SORAs, JSAs, permits, safeguard verification, pre-job meetings, housekeeping, and procedural compliance. Hold safety conversations and complete safety observations during each rotation; ensure HS