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Petroleum Engineer
Bureau of Land Management · Posted 69 days ago
Hybrid Sacramento, CA $75K – $134K Apply by Jul 22, 2026 Petroleum Engineering ESTPISTJISTP Engineering
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Explore a new career with the BLM - where our people are our most precious resource. This position is located in the following locations: Vernal, UT $86,123 - $134,195 Special Rate Miles City, MT $74,678 - $116,362 Buffalo, WY $74,678 - $116,362 Flowood, MS $74,678 - $116,362 Canon City, CO $76,650 - $119,434 Sacramento, CA $82,780 - $128,987 We will fill 1 vacancy at each location; however, additional positions may be filled from this announcement if they become available.
What You'll Do
- →Conduct technical review of drilling, completion, workover, and plugging programs to ensure safety, environmental protection, and regulatory compliance.
- →Analyze and approve APDs and Sundry Notices, recommending corrective actions or alternative engineering solutions when needed.
- →Evaluate drilling designs, casing/cementing programs, pressure control, drilling fluids, and operational plans to protect resources and prevent hazards (e.g., H2S, abnormal pressures).
- →Support reservoir management through drainage analysis, well spacing evaluation, and participation in unitization/communitization decisions.
- →Lead or support NEPA/land-use planning efforts by providing technical input, reviewing documents, and contributing to interdisciplinary teams.
- →Oversee inspections of drilling and production operations to verify compliance, prevent royalty loss, and ensure safe, workmanlike practices.
- →Provide expert technical guidance to operators and BLM staff, including testimony and specialized recommendations on complex engineering issues.
Requirements
- ✓You must meet one of the following Basic Requirements in order to be eligible for this position; Petroleum Engineer- 0881 Series Basic Requirements: 1.
- ✓Degree: Engineering.
- ✓OR 2.Combination of education and experience -- college-level education, training, and/or technical experience that furnished (1) a thorough knowledge of the physical and mathematical sciences underlying engineering, and (2) a good understanding, both theoretical and practical, of the engineering sciences and techniques and their applications to one of the branches of engineering.
- ✓The adequacy of such background must be demonstrated by one of the following: Professional registration or licensure -- Current registration as an Engineer Intern (EI), Engineer in Training (EIT), or licensure as a Professional Engineer (PE) by any State, the District of Columbia, Guam, or Puerto Rico.
- ✓Absent other means of qualifying under this standard, those applicants who achieved such registration by means other than written test (e.g., State grandfather or eminence provisions) are eligible only for positions that are within or closely related to the specialty field of their registration.
- ✓For example, an applicant who attains registration through a State Board's eminence provision as a manufacturing engineer typically would be rated eligible only for manufacturing engineering positions.
- ✓Written Test -- Evidence of having successfully passed the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE)2 examination or any other written test required for professional registration by an engineering licensure board in the various States, the District of Columbia, Guam, and Puerto Rico.
- ✓Specified academic courses -- Successful completion of at least 60 semester hours of courses in the physical, mathematical, and engineering sciences and that included the courses specified in the basic requirements under paragraph A.
- ✓The courses must be fully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of an engineering program as described in paragraph A.
- ✓Ordinarily there should be either an established plan of intensive training to develop professional engineering competence, or several years of prior professional engineering-type experience, e.g., in interdisciplinary positions.
- ✓(The above examples of related curricula are not all-inclusive.) TRANSCRIPTS: You must submit copies of all transcripts or a list of college courses that include hours and grades from an accredited U.S. college/university.
- ✓See Required Documents section for more information.
- ✓For further information, visit: Recognition of Foreign Qualifications | International Affairs Office (ed.gov).
Personality Fit
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