ExxonMobil

Reservoir Engineer (EIT)

ExxonMobil$85K — $100K *
Energy & Utilities
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelors degree in Engineering (Petroleum, Chemical, or Mechanical preferred)
  • Eligible for registration or registered as an Engineer-in-Training (EIT) or Professional Engineer with APEGA
  • 2-4 years experience in heavy oil reservoir engineering
  • Understanding of thermal recovery processes and well performance analysis
  • Experience with reservoir surveillance, economic analysis, and production forecasting

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with geoscience, reservoir, facilities engineering, and operations teams to drive drilling opportunities
  • Support drilling opportunity portfolio by developing well performance forecasts and economic evaluations
  • Monitor reservoir performance and provide insights on program effectiveness
  • Advance production optimization initiatives and analyze thermal recovery performance

Benefits

  • Training and mentorship opportunities
  • Relocation assistance available as needed
  • Participation in employee resource groups (ERGs) supporting company inclusion objectives
Full Job Description
About Imperial's Cold Lake operation

Cold Lake is an in-situ oil sands operation in northern Alberta. Sitting on a large, high-quality resource base, the operation is using and piloting next-generation solvent technologies that can improve production and lower greenhouse gas emissions intensity.

Cold Lake is one of the longest running oil sands operations in northeastern Alberta and one of the largest in-situ thermal operations in the world. The operation supplies refineries across Canada and the United States with the crude needed to create fuel, asphalt and other important products. The site's past success and current strength stem from the skills, commitment and passion of the site's workforce, made up of approximately 400 employees and 1,000 contractors including from Indigenous-owned businesses. In 2025, gross production at Cold Lake averaged 151,000 barrels per day.

What role you will play in our team

The successful candidate will leverage reservoir engineering insights, forecasting and economic analysis to identify and advance brownfield infill drilling and production optimization opportunities for Imperial's Cold Lake Operation.

What you will do

  • Collaborate cross-functionally with geoscience, reservoir, facilities engineering, and operations teams to identify, mature, and execute drilling opportunities, driving the process from opportunity generation to well start-up and operation.
  • Support a portfolio of drilling opportunities, develop well performance forecasts using analytical methods and reservoir simulation and progress economic evaluation and prioritization of opportunities.
  • Monitor reservoir performance, provide analysis and insights to management on program performance.
  • Support a broad scope of other reservoir opportunities for the Cold Lake Asset, including production optimization initiatives and thermal recovery performance analysis, across several recovery technologies.


About you

Skills and Qualifications

  • Bachelors degree in Engineering required - preferably Petroleum, Chemical, or Mechanical
  • Eligible for registration or registered as an Engineer-in-Training (EIT) or Professional Engineer with APEGA
  • 2-4 years heavy oil reservoir experience
  • Understanding of thermal recovery processes and well performance analysis
  • Experience with reservoir surveillance, economic analysis, and production forecasting
  • Demonstrated ability to work in a multi-disciplinary team and manage time pressures and changing priorities


Preferred Skills and Qualifications

  • Excellent communication, analytical and problem-solving skills
  • Experience with thermal (CSS, Steamflood, SAGD) or heavy-oil cold flow operations
  • Experience with infill drilling opportunity generation and evaluation
  • Experience with reservoir simulation and analytical forecasting
  • Reserves evaluation experience is an asset


Your benefits

An Imperial career is one designed to last. Our commitment to you runs deep: our employees grow personally and professionally, with benefits built on our core categories of health, security, finance, and life. Imperial Oil has been recognized as one of Canada's and Alberta's top employers (2024) as recognized by Mediacorp Canada Inc.'s 24th annual competition.

We offer you:
  • Competitive salary
  • Training and mentorship
  • Relocation assistance as required
  • Employee resource groups (ERG's) - opportunity to participate in volunteer groups that support furthering the company's inclusion objectives


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About ExxonMobil

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