Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Columbine Corporation is a privately held oil and gas service company providing mudlogging and wellsite geologic services across the contiguous United States. The Operations Manager will oversee scheduling and support for more than 40 field geologists and their equipment, while managing dispatch, staffing, client communication, accountability, training, and field operations coverage.
Responsibilities
- Develop predictive staffing requirements based on forecasted rig activity and current employee levels
- Dispatch equipment and personnel to job locations; own callout communication to crews and clients
- Track and verify utilization and deployment of equipment and personnel throughout the job
- Track completion of safety requirements and training modules with weekly accountability checks
- Review field tickets and daily reports; reconcile job tracking against invoicing and payroll inputs
- Assess and record field personnel performance; contact each assigned field employee on a prescribed rotation. Retention is part of this job, not an afterthought
- Train new employees in person or remotely, at a frequency determined by need (weekly, monthly, quarterly, etc.)
- Communicate and coordinate schedules between employees and clients, including crew change notifications
- Cover scheduled weekend rotations alongside peer managers
- Uphold and demonstrate our company culture and core values: Service, Humility, and Respect
Skills
- Driven individual to manage process-related aspects of the business
- Attention to detail is critical to have people and equipment in the right place for our customers
- Travel to field will be required
- Must be authorized to work in the U.S
- Proven experience leading people and holding them accountable: dispatch supervisor, service/ops coordinator, crew chief, district scheduler, military NCO, or similar. Leadership is the job
- Experience scheduling and dispatching people and equipment in a field-services environment (oilfield, trucking/logistics, utilities, or similar 24/7 operations)
- Outstanding oral and written communication: the job is mostly phone calls, texts, and emails, done well
- Confident in Microsoft 365: Excel, Word, Outlook, Teams, SharePoint
- Calm, decisive prioritization when the plan changes: callouts, crew changes, weather, and rig moves are just Tuesday
- You will take calls at inconvenient hours and weekends, on a scheduled rotation with peer managers — this is not open-ended on-call
- You WILL travel approximately 25-50%. This typically runs in blocks tied to drilling activity (for example, a recurring stretch in Midland, TX, plus periodic customer-office visits) rather than evenly spread across the year. We'll walk through the actual travel calendar in the interview
- Oil & gas familiarity strongly preferred
Benefits
- Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
- Life and AD&D Insurance
- 401(k)
- Work-from-home position (with up to 50% travel)
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