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Summary

The Completion Fluids Specialist is responsible for the comprehensive management of Clear Brine Fluid systems at well sites, ensuring the protection of the customer's fluid assets while delivering high-quality professional service. This role involves adhering to safety and environmental regulations, overseeing personnel, maintaining equipment, and managing job documentation effectively.

Safety:

• Comply with TETRA and customer safety policies and procedures.
• Lead and participate in well site safety meetings.
• Develop job safety & environment analysis documents for fluid handling and all related tasks.
• Complete Safety Observation Cards as required and recommend safety improvements.
• Exercise Stop Work Authority to ensure your safety and the safety of the crew.
• Report fluid-related environmental events and all injuries or near misses to customer & TETRA supervisors immediately.

Environmental:

• Ensure all fluid handling operations comply with corporate, customer, and statutory environmental regulations & policies.
• Update the NPDES section of the Daily Fluid Management Report (FMR) daily.
• Conduct static sheen tests and collect environmental compliance samples (oil & grease, TCW-WET, etc.) as required.

Personnel Management:

• Lead TETRA personnel at the well site and report performance issues and well site concerns to the Fluid Services Manager immediately.

Customer Relations:

• Clearly communicate material, equipment, and personnel needs to the customer representative and Fluid Services Manager.
• Provide a complete and accurate Fluid Management Report to the customer daily.

Equipment Oversight:

• Monitor the condition of TETRA equipment and report the findings to the Fluid Services Manager.
• Adhere to TETRA’s policy G-01 “Assignment and Use of Company Vehicles” and TETRA Policy G-5 “Use of Company-Provided Computers and Related Facilities.”

Documentation and Reporting:

• Submit accurate and timely daily reports to supervisors and customers.
• Submit accurate Material Return Receipts (MRR) & Well to Well Transfers (WTWT) paperwork to supervisors and appropriate plant personnel.
• Ensure all job-related paperwork is completed and submitted at the end of the job in a timely manner.

Cost Control:

• Take steps necessary to preserve the value of TETRA equipment and materials.
• Follow company purchasing policies for expense management.
• When making financial commitments on behalf of TETRA you will strive to obtain the best value.

Job-Specific Duties:

• Review and understand TETRA and customer procedures and completion plans.
• Recommend product applications, proper fluid handling procedures, displacement techniques, lost circulation control techniques and other procedures as needed.
• Prepare a complete and accurate FMR each day
• Monitor fluid properties and make recommendations for restoring and preserving customer-specified fluid properties.
• Manage filtration operations to ensure that TETRA and customer filtration QA/QC standards are met.
• Plan activities and material re-order to prevent any non-productive rig time.
• Communicate to the customer representative all items or services needed to ensure that the highest level of service is provided to the customer.
• Maintain an accurate inventory of all materials on location.
• Manage the installation and treatment of packer fluids as per TETRA and Customer specifications.
• Prepare MRR for all fluids and other materials to be returned from a job and send it to the Fluid Services Manager and to the plant that is to receive the material.
• Prepare WTWT for all material that is to be transferred to another job and send it to the Fluid Services Manager and to the plant from which material is being supplied.
• Secure signed and properly completed delivery tickets for completion fluid services and related costs.
• Monitor progress through displacement and other completion procedures recording:
  • Times of start and stop of procedure and various phases of procedures
  • Volumes pumped
  • Volumes Lost and Causes
  • Circulation rates
• Turn in copies of all documents, delivery tickets, and reports at the end of the job or when being relieved from a job to the Houma office.
• Turn in the weekly time sheet before 10PM on Sundays unless otherwise specified.
• All other tasks that may be specified from time to time by your supervisor or TETRA Technologies management.

Requirements:

• EDUCATION: Associate’s degree (A.A.) or equivalent in Petroleum Technology from two-year college or technical school; or five years of related experience and/or training; or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• EXPERIENCE: 3–5+ years of relevant experience; deep water and mud engineering experience is a plus.
• LICENSES/CERTIFICATIONS: Valid Driver's License
• OTHER:
  • Must be available 24/7 as required; this role does not follow a fixed schedule.
  • Ability to read, analyze, and interpret completion prognosis technical procedures and governmental regulations. Ability to write reports.  Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from managers, clients, and customers.
  • Ability to work with mathematical concepts such as probability and statistical inference. Ability to apply concepts such as fractions, percentages, rations, and proportions to practical situations.
  • Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of variables in situations where only limited equipment capabilities exist. The ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.

Physical Duties:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. 

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, see, talk, and hear. The employee is frequently required to walk and to use their hands to use, handle, and control equipment. The employee is occasionally required to reach, climb, and balance. 

The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 25-50 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 100 pounds with appropriate assistance.

Work Environment:

The requirements are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the position.

While performing the duties of any field-based position, an employee may be exposed to various outside weather conditions including but not limited to rain, humidity, snow, and/or heat during daytime hours and/or nighttime hours. The noise level in this work environment is usually moderate to loud for extended periods of time.