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PETROLEUM SCIENTIST 1-3

Salary

$4,167.00 - $7,502.00 Monthly

Location

Baton Rouge, LA

Job Type

Classified

Job Number

DCE-OPC-2025-215105-MFR

Department

DCE-Department of Conservation and Energy

Opening Date

11/21/2025

Closing Date

12/5/2025 11:59 PM Central

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About this Job

Petroleum Scientist 1, 2, or 3 (Office of Permitting & Compliance - Engineering)

The Office of Permitting and Compliance (OPC) oversees all permitting and regulatory functions within the Department, ensuring clarity, consistency, and regulatory integrity. By streamlining processes, accelerating permitting timelines and enhancing data-driven decision-making, the Office ensures compliance with environmental standards while supporting responsible economic development.

OPC centralizes all permitting and compliance functions, aligning engineering, geology, ecology, design, and compliance divisions into a single workflow. Its structure includes integrity and production audits, UIC and storage regulation, groundwater protection, coastal permits and mitigation, and reservoir and legacy site management.

This Petroleum Scientist 1, 2, or 3 position performs highly responsible engineering work of an administrative and technical nature pursuant to the Louisiana UIC program and certain additional E&P and industrial waste disposal activities. The incumbent will also perform complex technical Investigative and enforcement work on a statewide basis for the Engineering Division. The position requires inter-parish travel and can expect to travel approximately 20% of the time.

Minimum Qualifications

A bachelor's degree in a geoscience field or engineering.

Job Specification

The official job specifications for this role, as defined by the State Civil Service, can be found here.

Job Duties and Other Information

This Petroleum Scientist 1, 2, or 3 position is located within the Engineering Division of the Office Permitting & Compliance and is domiciled in Baton Rouge, LA. This position will ensure waste disposal practices regulated by the Engineering Division will not result in the introduction of contaminants into surface waters, subsurface geologic strata containing underground sources of drinking water, or endanger mineral resources of the state.

Duties include, but are not limited to the following:

+ Reviews permit applications submitted to the Engineering division for conformance with state regulations, including those for drilling, converting, and working-over injection wells.

+ Reviews applications requesting authority to permanently plug and abandon injection wells to ensure that the procedure used in the plugging operations conform to state and federal criteria.

+ Conducts technical review of applications to encapsulate NORM (Naturally Occurring Radioactive Material) contaminated waste in wells slated for abandonment.

+ Performs technical reviews of active injection wells to ensure that the method of well construction adequately provides for isolation of the USDW from the injection zone.

+ Conducts investigations concerning the design, construction, maintenance, and operations of wells at existing facilities.

+ Inspects and monitors by-product operations, including hazardous waste injections wells, solution mining of salt, hydrocarbon storage in solution-mined salt caverns, enhanced oil recovery wells, oil and gas exploration and production waste injection wells, etc.

+ Performs the review and interpretation of pressure transient tests, radioactive tracer surveys, well logs, in-situ reservoir stress tests, and any other test data required in the permitting process.

+ Maintains files on waste disposal wells, salt dome cavern operations, carbon sequestration operations, and site operations.

+ Performs technical review of applications for permits to dispose of drilling and/or workover waste down the annuli of production wells pursuant to LAC 43:XIX.315.

+ Provides training of coworkers in any tasks presented herein or otherwise requested by a supervisor.

+ May perform other duties as assigned

POSITION-SPECIFIC DETAILS:

Appointment Type:This vacancy is being announced as a classified position and is open to all qualified applicants. This position maybe filled as a fulltime Classified Probationary appointment or may be filled as a Job Appointment.

In the event that funds become available for a permanent position, the employee may be converted to a probational appointment. Additional Vacancies may be filled from this announcement within 90 days of the closing date.

Career Progression: This position does participate in a Career Progression GroupPETROLEUM SCIENTIST 1-3.

Work Schedule:Work hours are flexible.

Compensation: The salary offered will be determined based on qualifications and experience. This position is eligible for premium pay of up to $2.00 per hour for licensed employees. A Special Entrance Rate (SER) is offered to qualified applicants.

ENGINEERING DEGREE (NON-PETROLEUM)/GEOLOGY or GEOSCIENCE DEGREE

Title/Level

Petroleum Scientist 1 (https://apps01.civilservice.louisiana.gov/asp/onestopjobinfo/DisplayJobSpec.aspx?JobCode=173810)

Petroleum Scientist 2

Petroleum Scientist 3 (https://apps01.civilservice.louisiana.gov/asp/onestopjobinfo/DisplayJobSpec.aspx?JobCode=173830)

Pay Level

TS-312 (https://apps01.civilservice.louisiana.gov/asp/onestopjobinfo/JobViewPayLevels.aspx?Schedule=TS&PayLevel=312)

TS-314

TS-316 (https://apps01.civilservice.louisiana.gov/asp/onestopjobinfo/JobViewPayLevels.aspx?Schedule=TS&PayLevel=316)

SER Hourly Range

$27.65 - $43.28

$30.55 - $49.55

$33.76 - $56.73

SER Monthly Range

$4,792.67 - $7,502

$5,295.33 - $8,589

$5,851.73 - $9,833

SER Annual Range

$57,512 - $90,022

$63,544 - $103,064

$70,220.80 - $117,988

PETROLEUM ENGINEERING DEGREE

SER Hourly Range

$28.85 - $43.28

$33.03 - $49.55

$37.82 - $56.73

SER Monthly Range

$5,000.67 - $7,502

$5,725.20 - $8,589

$6,555.47 - $9,833

SER Annual Range

$60,008 - $90,022

$68,702.40 - $103,064

$78,665.60 - $117,998

Louisiana is a State As a Model Employer (SAME) that supports the recruitment, hiring, and retention of individuals with disabilities.

How To Apply:

No Civil Service test scoreis required in order to be considered for this vacancy.

To apply for this vacancy, click on the “Apply” link above and complete an electronic application, which can be used for this vacancy as well as future job opportunities. Applicants are responsible for checking the status of their application to determine where they are in the recruitment process. Further status message information is located under the Information section of the Current Job Opportunities page.

*Information to support your eligibility for the position must be included in the application (i.e., relevant, detailed experience/education). Resumeswill notbe accepted in lieu of completed education and experience sections. Applications may be rejected if incomplete.

For further information about this vacancy contact:

Human Resources

Department of Energy and Natural Resources

PO Box 94396

Baton Rouge, LA 70804-9396

Email:[email protected]

Louisiana State Government represents a wide variety of career options and offers an outstanding opportunity tomake a differencethrough public service. With an array of career opportunities in every major metropolitan center and in many rural areas, state employment provides an outstanding option to begin or continue your career.

As a state employee, you will earn competitive pay, choose from a variety of benefits, and have access to a great professional development program:

Insurance Coverage More information can be found at https://info.groupbenefits.org/

Parental Leave– Up to six weeks paid parental leave

More information can be found athttps://www.civilservice.louisiana.gov/Parental-Leave/Default.aspx

Holidays and Leave – State employees receive the following paid holidays each year:

+ New Year's Day

+ Martin Luther King, Jr. Day,

+ Mardi Gras,

+ Good Friday,

+ Memorial Day,

+ Independence Day,

+ Labor Day,

+ Veteran's Day,

+ Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day.

***** Additional holidays may be proclaimed by the Governor

State employees earn sick and annual leave which can be accumulated and saved for future use. Your accrual rate increases as your years of service increase.

Retirement – State of Louisiana employees are eligible to participate in various retirement systems (based on the type of appointment and agency for which an employee works). These retirement systems provide retirement allowances and other benefits for state officers and employees and their beneficiaries. State retirement systems may include (but are not limited to):

+ Louisiana State Employees Retirement System (www.lasersonline.org). LASERS has provided this video (https://lasersonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Your\_Retirement\_System.mp4) to give you more detailed information about their system

+ Teacher's Retirement System of Louisiana (www.trsl.org),

+ Louisiana School Employees Retirement System (www.lsers.net), among others

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State of Louisiana

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Phone

(866) 783-5462

Website

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