Product Owner - Surface Equipment

Introduction: 

Upwing Energy is developing and commercializing first-of-their-kind Subsurface Compressor Systems (SCS) for natural gas extraction.  Our development efforts combine exciting engineering challenges in turbomachinery; rotordynamics; high-speed and high-power electric motors; power electronics; industrial automation; aerodynamics; structural, thermal and fluid flow simulations; mechanical design and design-for-manufacturability. 

General Purpose of Job: 

The ideal Product Owner will have a strong and varied technical background; they must have the desire and capability to drive the development of the company’s Surface Control Center (SCC) and Hydraulic Control Center (HCC). This position will own the surface control equipment subsystems, including requirements definition and validation through design, fabrication, testing and deployment into gas wells and post-test/deployment analysis. Throughout the process, the Product Owner will provide design, fabrication and test contributions to the team from a systems perspective as well as work with the engineering and test teams to ensure requirements are validated in the test regime.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities: 

• Architect, design, validate Upwing’s topside equipment, currently including the SCC and HCC
• Work closely with other engineering, manufacturing, field, and service teams to ensure robust operation of topside equipment in support of our SCS and ICS products
• Maintain product roadmap for topside equipment working closely with all areas of the business to collect customer requirements and translate those into product requirements and specifications
• Define key risks and work with product validation and testing organizations to mitigate
• Develop and maintain technical documentation for topside equipment
• Drive aggressive cost reductions as business scales to achieve annual goals
• Maintain priorities in relation to overall design, build and test for surface control equipment subsystems
• Participates with engineering in product improvements and qualification
• Owns requirements for the surface control equipment subsystems at all levels –subsystem, components, ancillary equipment, etc.
• Lead Failure Modes Effects Analysis (FMEA) analyses as part of product development
• Reports updates of activities and status to teams and management regularly

Skills, Experience, Education, and Abilities:

• BS or MS in Mechanical, Electrical, Petroleum or related Engineering degree
• A minimum of 5 years of engineering experience with a minimum of 3 years of Systems Integration of complex products
• Experience with power electronics, complex system design and deployment are a must.  Strong background in rotating machinery and industrial automation as well
• Demonstrated knowledge of electrical architecture, lubrication, control systems design and debugging in harsh environments
• Strong familiarity with a wide range of ancillary equipment and control/automation and communication protocols of that equipment is a plus
• Excellent written and oral communication skills to various levels throughout the organization and supply base
• Ability to evaluate options, propose solutions and make decisions with limited information
• Must be capable of identifying and advocating vigorously for system interests in the development process

Intangibles Sought: 

• Must have the initiative to take ownership and drive results
• Fundamental curiosity as to how things work
• Drive to constantly learn new things and apply them to development and improvement of analysis methods.
• Determination to investigate and understand root cause
• Ability to communicate problems, analysis and results clearly to a general engineering audience of various specializations
• Ability to both evaluate the big picture and dive into details whenever necessary
• Be open to new ideas and input from others in a collegial, team environment
• Strong interpersonal skills with the power of positive persuasion
• Strong organizational skills
• High integrity, commitment, and honesty
• Readiness to do whatever task is necessary to move the product/team/company forward

Supervisory Responsibilities:

None

Physical Demands / Work Environment:

Most time will be spent in an office environment or shop floor. Personal protective equipment is required in designated areas. Minimal travel will be required to support products in the field.