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The company leverages its global leadership in carbon management to advance lower-carbon technologies and products. Headquartered in Houston, Oxy primarily operates in the United States, Middle East and North Africa. To learn more, visit Oxy\nOxy strives to attract and retain talented employees by investing in their professional development and providing rewarding opportunities for personal growth. Our goal is to meet the highest employer standards by ensuring the health and safety of our employees, protecting the environment and positively impacting our communities where we do business.\nExpert IT Infrastructure - Field Network\nPermian Operations\nOccidental Petroleum Corporation (NYSE: OXY) is an international energy company with assets primarily in the United States, the Middle East, and North Africa. We are one of the largest oil and gas producers in the U.S., including a leading producer in the Permian and DJ basins and offshore Gulf of Mexico. Our Midstream and Marketing segment provides flow assurance and maximizes the value of our oil and gas. Oxy Low Carbon Ventures advances leading-edge technologies and business solutions that support profitable growth while reducing emissions.\nAt Occidental, our people are our greatest asset. We are committed to attracting and retaining talented employees by investing in professional development and providing meaningful opportunities for growth. We strive to uphold the highest standards of health, safety, environmental stewardship, and positive community impact wherever we operate.\nWe are seeking an experienced and motivated individual to join our IT Field Network Permian Operations group as an Expert IT Infrastructure - Field Network.\nPosition Overview\nThe Expert IT Infrastructure - Field Network provides advanced operational support for Oxy’s field network environment across production, drilling, facilities, field offices, telecommunications, and automation operations. This role serves as a senior technical resource responsible for the installation, maintenance, troubleshooting, restoration, documentation, and continuous improvement of field network services.\nThe successful candidate will demonstrate strong technical expertise, sound judgment, excellent customer service, and a commitment to safe work practices. This position requires the ability to work effectively in remote field environments and collaborate with operations personnel, technical teams, vendors, contractors, and business stakeholders to maintain reliable connectivity for critical operational systems.\nKey Responsibilities\nSupport safe operations while helping protect the environment, employees, contractors, customers, and communities.\nInstall, maintain, troubleshoot, and support field network infrastructure, including routing, switching, wireless, microwave, LTE, satellite, fiber, and telecommunications systems.\nPerform advanced troubleshooting and service-restoration activities for network, telecommunications, and connectivity issues affecting drilling, production, automation, plant, and business operations.\nProvide on-site and remote support for field offices, communications facilities, remote locations, and other critical operational sites.\nCoordinate with Automation, Operations, Engineering, Cybersecurity, Infrastructure, vendors, and business stakeholders to resolve service-impacting incidents.\nUse IT service management processes to manage incidents, service requests, changes, and problem investigations through resolution.\nExecute approved maintenance activities, including network upgrades, hardware replacements, lifecycle refreshes, firmware upgrades, and infrastructure improvements.\nParticipate in outage response, root-cause analysis, corrective-action development, and continuous-improvement initiatives.\nMaintain accurate network diagrams, site records, equipment inventories, operating procedures, and support runbooks.\nSupport the commissioning, startup, and integration of new facilities, communications systems, operational technology networks, and business infrastructure.\nMonitor network performance and proactively identify service degradation, operational risks, capacity constraints, reliability issues, and improvement opportunities.\nProvide technical guidance, coaching, and knowledge transfer to team members while promoting standardized operational practices.\nSupport field construction activities, vendor coordination, site surveys, telecommunications projects, and infrastructure deployments.\nPrepare and communicate operational-status updates, technical findings, outage notifications, and project-progress reports.\nParticipate in on-call rotations and provide after-hours support for critical operational issues, as required.\nPerform other duties as assigned.\nRequired Qualifications\nFive or more years of experience supporting, installing, maintaining, or troubleshooting enterprise network and telecommunications infrastructure.\nExperience with one or more of the following technologies: routing, switching, wireless, telecommunications, fiber, LTE, microwave, SCADA, industrial networking, or related systems.\nDemonstrated ability to troubleshoot complex operational issues and restore services safely and efficiently.\nExperience working directly with field operations personnel, vendors, contractors, and business stakeholders.\nStrong understanding of incident management, change management, and operational support processes.\nStrong written and verbal communication skills.\nAbility to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced operational environment.\nAbility to work independently while collaborating effectively with multidisciplinary teams.\nWillingness and ability to travel to field locations and provide after-hours operational support, as needed.\nPreferred Qualifications\nBachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Telecommunications, Engineering Technology, or a related technical discipline. Equivalent relevant field experience may be considered.\nExperience supporting field network infrastructure in oil and gas, industrial, manufacturing, telecommunications, utilities, or other critical operating environments.\nExperience supporting network and telecommunications systems in remote or geographically distributed field locations.\nExperience with routing, switching, wireless, microwave, private LTE, satellite, fiber-optic, SCADA, industrial networking, or related communications technologies.\nExperience supporting field construction, facility commissioning, site startups, equipment replacements, infrastructure upgrades, or operational technology deployments.\nFamiliarity with structured cabling and fiber-optic installation, testing, troubleshooting, documentation, and industry best practices.\nExperience using ServiceNow, network-monitoring platforms, ticketing systems, network-management systems, or related operational support tools.\nExperience participating in outage response, incident management, root-cause analysis, and corrective-action activities.\nExperience working with field operations, automation teams, vendors, contractors, and business users to resolve operational issues.\nExperience creating and maintaining support documentation, operational procedures, network diagrams, equipment inventories, and support runbooks.\nDemonstrated ability to identify and implement opportunities to improve operational efficiency, reduce recurring incidents, improve reliability, or automate repetitive support activities.\nExperience supporting communications towers, microwave systems, wireless infrastructure, mobile communications solutions, or remote-site connectivity.\nFamiliarity with cybersecurity practices, patching activities, firmware management, and operational technology support processes.\nPrevious experience in field support, telecommunications, network operations, infrastructure support, or industrial operations.\nAdditional Information\nRelocation: Relocation assistance will not be provided for this position.\nWork Authorization: Occidental does not offer sponsorship of employment-based nonimmigrant visa petitions for this role.\nOccidental is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, marital status, political preference, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, or any other status protected by applicable law.\nRecruitment Fraud Notice\nOccidental is aware that individuals and organizations may falsely represent themselves as recruiting on behalf of Oxy. These communications are not associated with Occidental or our recruitment process.\nOxy does not charge a fee at any stage of the recruiting process. We will never:\nAsk candidates to pay for applications, interviews, meetings, processing, training, or any other recruiting-related fees.\nUse recruiting or placement agencies that require candidates to pay an advance fee of any kind.\nRequest sensitive personal information, such as passport or bank account details, early in the recruitment process.\nWe recommend that candidates do not respond to unsolicited business propositions or job offers from unknown individuals and do not disclose personal or financial information. If you believe you have been the victim of a recruiting scam, please contact your local law-enforcement agency.\nRecruitment Fraud\nIt 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.\nOxy does not charge a fee at any stage of the recruiting process. We will never:\nAsk you to pay for applications, interviews, meetings, processing, training or for any other fees\nUse recruiting or placement agencies that charge candidates an advance fee of any kind or\nRequest 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. 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