Jobs at Kinetik

Designs, deploys, maintains, and troubleshoots resilient OT network infrastructure across industrial facilities, compressor stations, plants, and remote assets. Supports industrial protocols, SCADA and control-system communications, network segmentation, upgrades, monitoring, disaster recovery, cloud connectivity, and secure OT architecture. Collaborates with Automation, Controls, Operations, IT, security teams, vendors, and integrators. Provides on-call support and may travel occasionally to field locations.

Engineers and manages midstream facility and gas plant projects, including compressor station and processing projects. Develops scopes and cost estimates, manages schedules and budgets, coordinates construction and third-party contractors, supports operations, resolves technical issues, and ensures safety, regulatory, and customer requirements are met. The role also provides technical guidance, evaluates processes for continuous improvement, and manages multiple concurrent projects.

Supports and executes commercial strategy for gas, crude, and produced-water midstream businesses. Develops customer relationships, negotiates commercial agreements, supports transactions, reviews settlement statements, coordinates facility projects with engineering, and monitors industry and competitor trends. The role is based in Midland, Texas, with occasional customer and worksite travel and after-hours availability as needed.

Designs, builds, and supports OT data pipelines, APIs, SQL models, MQTT infrastructure, and integration services connecting SCADA, historians, databases, business systems, and analytics platforms. Responsibilities include developing data products, monitoring production systems, troubleshooting failures, implementing secure integration patterns, maintaining documentation, and applying software engineering practices such as testing, version control, peer review, and CI/CD. The role collaborates with operations, measurement, IT, engineering, analytics, and commercial teams and supports occasional field-site activities.

Manages automation and process control systems across natural gas plants, compression, pipelines, measurement, and water operations. Leads automation personnel, oversees DCS, PLC, RTU, and HMI design, programming, maintenance, troubleshooting, and system upgrades. Coordinates with operations and engineering, supports capital projects, cybersecurity and regulatory compliance, documentation, budgeting, staffing, and employee development. Responds to critical outages and periodically travels to field locations.

Build and maintain finance workflows, automations, dashboards, and reporting tools using Python and SQL. Extract, clean, validate, and structure financial data; translate FP&A and accounting requirements into reliable solutions; validate outputs for executive decision-making; and establish documentation, testing, version control, and data-validation practices. Support finance analysis and projects while maintaining tools as business needs evolve.

Installs, programs, starts up, calibrates, maintains, troubleshoots, and repairs automation and process control equipment across gas gathering, compression, processing, measurement, and water-management facilities. Works with PLCs, DCS, pneumatic instrumentation, and complex automation systems to improve uptime and reduce costs. Requires field travel, outdoor work, overtime, call-outs, and collaboration with operations, engineering, maintenance, and IT teams.

Provides process and operational engineering support for gas processing facilities. Responsibilities include managing MOCs, participating in PHAs, maintaining P&IDs and cause-and-effect charts, developing ProMax simulation models, supporting new plant design, and managing projects through implementation and commissioning. The role requires regular plant visits, field troubleshooting, turnaround support, regional driving, and collaboration with plant operations and major projects teams.

Installs, programs, calibrates, starts up, maintains, troubleshoots, and repairs automation and process control equipment across gas gathering, compression, processing, measurement, and water management facilities. Supports DCS and PLC systems, pneumatic instrumentation, preventive maintenance, uptime improvements, and complex diagnostics. Collaborates with Operations, Engineering, Maintenance, and IT teams. Requires field travel, outdoor work, overtime, call-outs, and safe handling of equipment.

General application for employment with Kinetik, a Permian Basin energy infrastructure company providing natural gas, crude oil, and water management services. The posting does not specify a particular role, responsibilities, qualifications, experience level, salary, travel, or clearance requirement. Potential work locations include Midland, Pecos, Balmorhea, and Orla, Texas.