The posting
Disclaimer: SLB completed the acquisition of ChampionX on July 16, 2025. If selected for this position, your employment will begin with ChampionX and will transition to SLB as part of the planned integration.
We are looking for a Gas Lift Technician located in Odessa, TX. This is your opportunity to join a global technology company, driving energy innovation for a balanced planet.
This experienced-level role is responsible for leading complex gas lift and packer operations in both field and shop environments. The Gas Lift Technician serves as a technical expert to our customers, ensuring the safe, efficient, and successful execution of service operations while maintaining the highest standards of quality, safety, and customer satisfaction.
What’s In It For You:
- Potential to earn field bonus incentives!
- Opportunity for a long term, advanced career path
- A culture that values safety first, including training and personal protection
- Comprehensive benefits package that includes medical, dental, vision, 401(k) with company matching and more!
What You Will Do:
- Lead complex gas lift and packer installations, retrievals, and service operations.
- Serve as the primary customer contact and rig-site lead, coordinating activities and resolving operational challenges.
- Validate equipment readiness, job designs, and field modifications to ensure successful execution.
- Perform advanced troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and corrective actions on gas lift systems and related equipment.
- Support shop operations through equipment inspection, testing, repair, and quality assurance activities.
- Maintain maintenance records, service documentation, and inventory controls while ensuring compliance with company standards.
- Evaluate non-conforming equipment and recommend rework, repair, or replacement solutions.
- Coordinate contractors and internal teams to support repairs, maintenance, and operational projects.
- Mentor and provide technical guidance to technicians and field personnel.
- Promote and uphold all company safety, quality, and environmental standards.
Minimum Qualifications
- High school diploma or equivalent required; technical training preferred.
- 5 years of relevant experience
- Significant experience in gas lift, artificial lift, completions, or oilfield service operations.
- Strong mechanical aptitude and troubleshooting skills.
- Experience leading customer-facing field operations and complex rig-site activities.
- Ability to read and interpret technical drawings, procedures, and specifications.
- Valid driver's license with an acceptable driving record.
Physical Demands:
- Role is deemed safety-sensitive and may be subject to employer or customer drug testing.
- The employee is regularly required to stand for the entire workday.
- The employee regularly lifts and carries up to 50 lbs and occasionally lifts and carries up to 100 lbs, with assistance.
- Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.
- The employee is regularly required to talk or hear.
- The employee is frequently required to use hands and fingers to pick, feel, and/or inspect material. The employee will also reach with hands and arms as needed.
- Repetitive bending, reaching, pulling, and lifting
- Pushing and pulling wheeled carts weighing up to 1000 lbs.
About Us:
ChampionX is now part of SLB, a global technology company driving energy innovation for a balanced planet. As innovators, that’s been our mission for nearly a century.
We are a technology company that unlocks access to energy for the benefit of all. As innovators, that’s been our mission for nearly a century. Today, we face a global imperative to create a future with more energy, but less carbon. Our diverse, innovative change makers are focused on going further in innovation and inventing the new energy technologies we need to get there.
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We believe the best teams are diverse and inclusive, and we are on a journey to create a workplace where every employee can grow and achieve their best. We are committed to fair and equal treatment of employees and applicants. We recruit, hire, promote, transfer and provide opportunities for advancement on the basis of individual qualifications and job performance. In all matters affecting employment, compensation, benefits, working conditions, and opportunities for advancement, we will not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, religion, color, creed, national origin, citizenship status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expressions, genetic information, marital status, age, disability, or status as a covered veteran.
