Occidental Petroleum
Sustainability Facilities Engineer
Occidental Petroleum, Houston, Texas, United States, 77001
Sustainability Facilities Engineer
Join Occidental as a Facilities Engineer in our Environmental and Sustainability group, where you'll help shape our Net Zero strategy through innovative engineering and data-driven solutions. This role leads emissions modeling, sustainability forecasting, and cross-functional collaboration to integrate greenhouse gas reduction into infrastructure planning. You'll manage complex data systems, support corporate climate targets, and contribute to lifecycle and Scope 3 emissions analysis. Ideal candidates bring Process Engineering or Sustainability experience, strong technical skills, and a passion for driving impactful change. Key Responsibilities: Net Zero and Sustainability strategic planning and forecasting. Contribute facilities or other relevant engineering expertise to consistent forecasting and transparent tracking of greenhouse gas and sustainability metrics. Lead modeling and scenario analyses of emissions reduction opportunities including cost, economics, and business case. Support corporate sustainability target-setting and maintain marginal abatement cost curves based on business units' emissions reduction roadmaps/implementation plans. Facilitate and manage data collection efforts for corporate Scope 3 greenhouse gas calculations, product-level carbon accounting (Lifecycle Analysis), the Corporate Greenhouse Gas Inventory Management Plan (CIMP) and other requests as needed. Develop, maintain, improve, and automate dashboards and data systems for transparency of sustainability performance at varying levels of granularity. Assist in identifying and piloting additional tools as needed. Collaborate with cross-functional teams such as Production Operations, Business Unit Net Zero Leads, Air Quality Teams, and HSE Teams to align greenhouse gas emissions and sustainability metrics into cross-functional facilities planning and infrastructure strategies. Other duties, as assigned. Required Qualifications: Bachelor's degree in engineering or geoscience. Chemical, Mechanical, or Environmental/Civil engineering degree is preferred. Minimum 8 years of related experience in Oil & Gas and/or Climate, Environmental, Sustainability. Expertise in Process Engineering including process modeling and simulations (using Aspentech Hysys, BR&E Promax, or equivalent) as well as experience with greenhouse gas emission calculations for quantification or air emissions permitting. Experience with capital or maintenance projects, either as a project engineer/manager or as a technical resource to project development. Experience with data analytics, PowerBI, SQL, Python, or other relevant data skills. Exceptional problem-solving, critical thinking, communication, autonomy, and analytical skills. Ability to work independently and in a collaborative environment. Exposure to projects and project management. Travel up to 20% required. Desired Qualifications: Exposure to Environmental and Sustainability topics, including greenhouse gas calculations, voluntary carbon market knowledge, climate-related knowledge. Exposure to sustainability and greenhouse gas calculations, standards, and protocols (voluntary and compliance-related). Relocation will not be provided. Recruitment Fraud: It has come to our attention various individuals and/or organizations are contacting people falsely pretending to recruit on behalf of Oxy. Please be aware that these recruiting scams and communications do not originate nor are they associated with our recruitment process. All Oxy job postings and offers will require a completed application through our company website. Oxy does not charge a fee at any stage of the recruiting process. We will never: ask you to pay for applications, interviews, meetings, processing, training or for any other fees; use recruiting or placement agencies that charge candidates an advance fee of any kind; or request personal information such as passport and bank account details at an early stage of our recruitment process. We recommend against responding to unsolicited business propositions or offers from people you don't know. Do not disclose your personal or financial details. If you believe you have been the victim of a recruiting scam, please contact your local police department. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, creed, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, disability status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, citizenship status, or any other basis as protected by federal, state, or local law.
Join Occidental as a Facilities Engineer in our Environmental and Sustainability group, where you'll help shape our Net Zero strategy through innovative engineering and data-driven solutions. This role leads emissions modeling, sustainability forecasting, and cross-functional collaboration to integrate greenhouse gas reduction into infrastructure planning. You'll manage complex data systems, support corporate climate targets, and contribute to lifecycle and Scope 3 emissions analysis. Ideal candidates bring Process Engineering or Sustainability experience, strong technical skills, and a passion for driving impactful change. Key Responsibilities: Net Zero and Sustainability strategic planning and forecasting. Contribute facilities or other relevant engineering expertise to consistent forecasting and transparent tracking of greenhouse gas and sustainability metrics. Lead modeling and scenario analyses of emissions reduction opportunities including cost, economics, and business case. Support corporate sustainability target-setting and maintain marginal abatement cost curves based on business units' emissions reduction roadmaps/implementation plans. Facilitate and manage data collection efforts for corporate Scope 3 greenhouse gas calculations, product-level carbon accounting (Lifecycle Analysis), the Corporate Greenhouse Gas Inventory Management Plan (CIMP) and other requests as needed. Develop, maintain, improve, and automate dashboards and data systems for transparency of sustainability performance at varying levels of granularity. Assist in identifying and piloting additional tools as needed. Collaborate with cross-functional teams such as Production Operations, Business Unit Net Zero Leads, Air Quality Teams, and HSE Teams to align greenhouse gas emissions and sustainability metrics into cross-functional facilities planning and infrastructure strategies. Other duties, as assigned. Required Qualifications: Bachelor's degree in engineering or geoscience. Chemical, Mechanical, or Environmental/Civil engineering degree is preferred. Minimum 8 years of related experience in Oil & Gas and/or Climate, Environmental, Sustainability. Expertise in Process Engineering including process modeling and simulations (using Aspentech Hysys, BR&E Promax, or equivalent) as well as experience with greenhouse gas emission calculations for quantification or air emissions permitting. Experience with capital or maintenance projects, either as a project engineer/manager or as a technical resource to project development. Experience with data analytics, PowerBI, SQL, Python, or other relevant data skills. Exceptional problem-solving, critical thinking, communication, autonomy, and analytical skills. Ability to work independently and in a collaborative environment. Exposure to projects and project management. Travel up to 20% required. Desired Qualifications: Exposure to Environmental and Sustainability topics, including greenhouse gas calculations, voluntary carbon market knowledge, climate-related knowledge. Exposure to sustainability and greenhouse gas calculations, standards, and protocols (voluntary and compliance-related). Relocation will not be provided. Recruitment Fraud: It has come to our attention various individuals and/or organizations are contacting people falsely pretending to recruit on behalf of Oxy. Please be aware that these recruiting scams and communications do not originate nor are they associated with our recruitment process. All Oxy job postings and offers will require a completed application through our company website. Oxy does not charge a fee at any stage of the recruiting process. We will never: ask you to pay for applications, interviews, meetings, processing, training or for any other fees; use recruiting or placement agencies that charge candidates an advance fee of any kind; or request personal information such as passport and bank account details at an early stage of our recruitment process. We recommend against responding to unsolicited business propositions or offers from people you don't know. Do not disclose your personal or financial details. If you believe you have been the victim of a recruiting scam, please contact your local police department. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, creed, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, disability status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, citizenship status, or any other basis as protected by federal, state, or local law.