Occidental Petroleum
Automation Specialist
Denver City, Texas, USA · Mid
Stay score
odds of building a lasting career here
Thin sponsorship signal and lottery-bound. A low-probability bet with your clock running. Prioritize cap-exempt roles and proven entry-level sponsors first.
Lottery odds assume a STEM candidate.
Personalize to your clock →Employer immigration record
from this employer's Department of Labor filings
Green-card filing pattern in this occupation
Sourced from Department of Labor LCA, PERM and prevailing-wage disclosure data. Employer matching is by name, so figures may be split across an employer's legal entities. Absence of a filing means none appears in our copy of the data, not that none exists.
Community outcomes
No reports yet — be the first to help the next applicant.
About the role
- Oxy produces, markets and transports oil and natural gas to maximize value and provide resources fundamental to life.
- Headquartered in Houston, Oxy primarily operates in the United States, Middle East and North Africa.
Requirements
- 2-year Instrumentation or Automation technology degree with a GPA of 2.5 or higher (or foreign equivalent), or equivalent technical working experience with a good track record of safety
- 3+ years of Oil Field experience
- Intermediate knowledge of analog and discrete instrumentation, and various serial and ethernet communications protocols
- Intermediate knowledge of technical standards and guidelines (API, NEC, NFPA, IEEE, ISA, etc.)
- Basic knowledge of maintaining PLC programs in function block, ladder logic, and structured text
- Basic knowledge of maintaining local HMI operator interfaces
- Intermediate knowledge of MS Office (Word, Excel, Outlook, etc.) and Windows Operating Systems
- Bachelor's degree in Automation with GPA of 3.0 or higher (or foreign equivalent)
- 5+ years of Oil Field experience
- 1+ years of upstream oil and gas automation experience
Skills
- The company leverages its global leadership in carbon management to advance lower-carbon technologies and products.
Company info
- We are looking for an experienced and motivated individual to fill the position of Automation Specialist within our US Onshore Resources & Carbon Management (ORCM), Production Operations Business Unit based in Denver City, Texas.
Visa & Work Authorization
- Occidental does not offer sponsorship of employment-based nonimmigrant visa petitions for this role
This listing is sourced directly from Occidental Petroleum's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.