Senior Production Engineer

Advantage Energy Ltd. (“Advantage ”) is a proud Canadian energy company that recently celebrated its 20-year anniversary. Advantage is an intermediate producer with production of approximately 75,000 BOE/d from high-quality assets concentrated entirely in the Montney and Charlie Lake fairways, located west of Grande Prairie in Northwest Alberta. The Company has prided itself on being focused, innovative, and technology driven with a track record of execution and exceptional performance. Advantage’s subsidiary, Entropy Inc. (“Entropy”), is a new clean-tech carbon capture and sequestration company with its first project underway at Advantage’s Glacier Gas Plant and recently announced a strategic investment from the Canada Growth Fund.

Advantage is actively seeking a Senior Production Engineer to join our team at our downtown office in Calgary, AB. This position will report to the Team Lead, Production Engineering, and is a full-time, permanent role. 

The successful candidate will have the following experience and credentials:

Key Responsibilities:

• Daily surveillance of production volumes to ensure assets are operating at their full capability.
• Work closely with the Field Operations team to meet production, development and operating cost goals.
• Participate in development planning and execution activities by providing equipping, tie-in and artificial lift recommendations.
• Provide operating priorities to Field Operations to maximize value in a dynamic environment.
• Collaborate with other office-based technical, financial and corporate disciplines on a variety of issues.
• Drive artificial lift design, operating procedures and run life improvements on rod pump, gas lift and plunger lift equipped wells.
• Monitor gathering system for bottlenecks, identify improvements and participate in pipeline integrity activities.
• Support forecasting, budgeting and reserves activities though a deep understanding of field operations and base production.
• Identify, justify and execute on production optimization, operating cost reduction and emissions reductions projects.
• Support emissions compliance and drive continuous improvement on emission reduction.
• Ensure measurement compliance and production data integrity.
• Represent Advantage to other producers, midstream operators, vendors and regulatory bodies.
• Adhere to and support Advantage HSE systems, while promoting safety awareness.

Qualifications and Education Requirements:

• 7+ years energy industry experience with significant production engineering experience.
• Must possess the P.Eng or P.Tech (Eng) certification from APEGA/ASET.
• Proven ability to communicate effectively with both field and office staff.
• Strong technical skills, coupled with problem-solving skills and creativity.
• Prior field experience is strong asset.
• Good understanding of artificial lift design and troubleshooting.
• Complementary skills of note are workover execution, facilities, exploitation, regulatory, measurement, emissions management, pipeline modelling, nodal analysis, project management, data analytics.
• Able and willing to periodically travel to field locations

Job Type : Full-Time

Schedule : Monday – Friday, 37.5 hours/week

Term : Permanent, full-time

Location: Downtown Office – Calgary, AB

Start Date: As soon as possible.

How to Apply

We provide a dynamic working environment that encourages professional growth and personal development opportunities for career advancement. If this sounds like the right opportunity for you, apply by sending your resume to or apply through LinkedIn. We want to thank everyone for applying; however, only applicants that possess the required knowledge and experience will be considered for the position. This posting is open until January 10, 2025.