Jobs at Patterson-Uti Energy

Monitors and optimizes hydraulic fracturing operations through real-time data analysis, equipment monitoring, QA/QC, diagnostic testing, stimulation modeling, and digital technologies. Provides technical support to customers and field teams, manages operational ticketing, improves business processes, and ensures accurate treatment reporting, safety compliance, and customer satisfaction.

Supervises district HSE personnel and develops, implements, and audits health, safety, and environmental programs. Conducts compliance assessments, accident investigations, safety training, drills, and environmental inspections. Ensures adherence to company policies, OSHA, DOT, FMCSA, and other applicable regulations. Analyzes incident data, recommends corrective actions and safety goals, evaluates training programs, and coordinates with operations management, vendors, agencies, and professional organizations.

Process and verify customer invoices in Shipwell, maintain billing accounts, communicate with vendors about corrections, resolve billing discrepancies and customer inquiries, and ensure documentation complies with company policies. The role supports internal teams, performs detailed data entry, contributes to billing process improvements, and manages time-sensitive tasks in a collaborative office environment.

Coordinates and analyzes customer billing, cost codes, invoices, month-end processes, and financial report distribution. Investigates billing disputes, maintains accurate records, collaborates with internal departments and customers, and supports process improvements. The role requires strong communication, organization, analytical problem-solving, attention to detail, and the ability to manage competing priorities in a fast-paced office environment.

Manages daily drilling rig operations, personnel, safety, maintenance, production, costs, and equipment. Supervises and trains rig crews, plans drilling activities and rig moves, coordinates with drillers, customers, and third parties, resolves operational issues, and minimizes downtime. The role includes inspections, preventative maintenance, reporting, housekeeping, performance management, and direct participation in rig-based duties. Work occurs in remote locations on a 14-days-on/14-days-off rotational schedule, including extended shifts and variable weather conditions.

Supports development, testing, deployment, troubleshooting, and continuous improvement of power systems products for drilling rigs. Translates requirements into specifications and test plans, conducts laboratory and field validation, analyzes performance data, supports commissioning and product releases, creates technical documentation, and trains field personnel. The role collaborates with controls, software, electrical, data science, operations, and support teams and requires regular travel to drilling locations.

Manage Salesforce administration, maintenance, enhancements, security, governance, reporting, dashboards, and declarative automation. Lead Salesforce-driven transformation and integrations with SAP S/4HANA and other enterprise systems. Ensure SOX, ICFR, US GAAP, audit, and regulatory compliance while managing IT staff, supporting business stakeholders, optimizing processes, and delivering projects. The role requires strong leadership, analytical, communication, documentation, prioritization, and Salesforce configuration expertise.

Owns the lifecycle and success of drilling automation software products, translating rig and customer needs into requirements, priorities, tests, and field validation plans. Coordinates development, deployment, training, technical support, marketing, and product launches. Monitors reliability, performance, utilization, and adoption, drives issue resolution, supports customer demonstrations, and travels regularly to drilling rigs and remote operational locations.

Performs quality control testing of well stimulation and cementing fluids and additives. Assists with fluid design, laboratory equipment operation, calibration, pre-job preparation, data documentation, chemical inventory, and safety compliance. Maintains an orderly laboratory and daily records while supporting field testing and operational improvement activities.

Track equipment maintenance, registrations, inspections, and asset hours using Oracle and spreadsheets. Maintain repair, inspection, transfer, and compliance files; review documentation for DOT compliance; purge records according to an 18-month retention cycle; and prepare materials for random DOT audits. The role also generates monthly compliance reports, assigns inspections and registrations, and maintains an organized office environment.

Monitors hydraulic fracturing treatments and equipment parameters in real time, provides technical support to customers and field teams, performs data QA/QC, manages operational ticketing, and identifies efficiency improvements. The role also conducts frac diagnostics and stimulation modeling, applies digital technologies and business intelligence, and maintains strong customer relationships while following safety and company policies.

Coordinates directional drilling operations, personnel, equipment, pre-well planning, daily performance monitoring, reporting, job closeout, ticket review, customer interactions, and KPI presentations. Ensures drilling activities comply with company expectations, approved programs, pricing agreements, and safety requirements. Collaborates with support departments, applications engineering, data analysts, customers, and vendors while overseeing field operations across multiple regions.

Operates and maintains drilling rig derrick and mud systems in a heavy industrial environment. Responsibilities include inspecting equipment, measuring and managing mud systems, handling chemicals, guiding drill pipe, performing preventative maintenance, supporting rig-up and rig-down, maintaining housekeeping, and following strict safety procedures. The role requires extensive climbing, elevated-platform work with harnesses, prolonged standing, heavy lifting, outdoor work in extreme weather, rotating 14-days-on/14-days-off schedules, and mandatory training and testing.

Supports reliability, product quality, and engineering investigations through equipment failure analysis, testing, troubleshooting, technical reporting, root cause analysis, and quality documentation. Develops quality procedures, inspection manuals, quality plans, and corrective controls. Collaborates with engineering, field operations, manufacturing, and other departments while maintaining engineering records, meeting deadlines, and ensuring compliance with applicable standards.

Develops and grows business with existing and prospective oil and gas customers. Responsibilities include prospecting, relationship management, sales presentations, forecasts, quotations, customer value analysis, and revenue growth. The role collaborates with Operations and Technical teams on service utilization, customer KPIs, product development, and satisfaction. It also represents the company at industry events, tracks invoicing and payment, and maintains technical knowledge of wellbore placement services. Travel, weekend work, and extended hours may be required.

Leads drilling performance analytics and optimization across onshore rigs and customer accounts. Analyzes large datasets, KPIs, and operational processes; develops reports, visualizations, roadmaps, and improvement strategies. Provides technical support, root cause analysis, training, coaching, customer coordination, and mentorship. Supports rig monitoring systems, operational standardization, cost optimization, and field execution while promoting safety and operational excellence.

Leads the strategy, roadmap, development, commercialization, and adoption of AI-enabled products for oil and gas drilling operations. Identifies high-value drilling and customer opportunities, translates them into scalable product requirements and business cases, and oversees deployment from pilots through production. Partners with operations, engineering, data, commercial teams, customers, and technology providers. Builds multidisciplinary teams, evaluates AI platforms, drives field adoption and change management, and develops products that improve operational performance and generate commercial value.

Lead the strategy, roadmap, development, commercialization, and adoption of AI-powered products for drilling operations. Partner with Operations, Engineering, HSE, Data Science, Software Engineering, customers, and technology providers to deliver solutions using generative AI, computer vision, machine learning, automation, and modern data platforms. Build and lead a multidisciplinary organization, manage AI initiatives and investments, establish technology standards and governance, and drive organizational change across drilling operations and customer environments.

Bridges field operations and software development by translating hydraulic fracturing workflows into validated product requirements, user stories, business rules, acceptance criteria, and test plans. Coordinates SMEs, supports backlog refinement and release planning, leads bench, integration, field, and user-acceptance testing, and supports implementation, training, adoption, and performance measurement. The role is 75% field-based and 25% office-based, emphasizing product ownership, operational analysis, stakeholder facilitation, and technical communication rather than programming.

Lead and supervise the Mechanical Design team to deliver electro-mechanical designs for enclosures, skids, frames, and assemblies. Approve 3D models, drawings, BOMs; perform structural, thermal, vibration analysis; ensure standards compliance and manufacturability; coordinate with electrical, operations, supply chain, and customers; support prototypes, testing, and field activities.