Senior Director, Field Measurement
industrial_energy_operations › Field Measurement · M6 — M6 — Vice President · Management
Senior director overseeing all field measurement operations, standards, and personnel across the distribution network.
Median pay · United States · annual
$241,631 USD
▲ +182.2% vs M1 on this ladder
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pay@2 · 2026-07
What this role is
Senior director overseeing all field measurement operations, standards, and personnel across the distribution network. At the Vice President (M6) level, the role owns a major function or division, enterprise priorities and external factors, and drives division-wide / organization-wide. Leads the leadership of a division.
What this level does
- Set long-term measurement strategy across multiple field-operations functions or divisions, leading through senior managers
- Shape abstract, cross-functional decisions on measurement technology direction, workforce evolution, and custody-transfer risk that affect long-term company success
- Negotiate with executives and regulatory/industry bodies on critical measurement-integrity, PSM, and custody-transfer matters and influence company policy
- Oversee multiple measurement departments and functions, ensuring integrated instrumentation, calibration, and reporting standards enterprise-wide
- Define the multi-year capital and capability plan for electronic flow measurement and field measurement operations
- Knowledge applied
- Applies enterprise-level strategy to shape long-term measurement technology, workforce, and custody-transfer risk direction.
- Complexity & problem solving
- Tackles abstract, cross-functional problems and defines multi-year measurement strategy affecting company success.
- Collaboration & interaction
- Negotiates with executives and regulatory/industry bodies on critical measurement and PSM matters as a policy influencer.
- Typical experience
- 12–15+ years with deep leadership across measurement departments or divisions.
Skills at this level
- Custody Transfer Measurement
- — Directs the accurate measurement of crude oil and gas at points of custody transfer, ensuring meter proving, electronic flow measurement, and reconciliation meet contractual and regulatory tolerances.
- Instrumentation Calibration and Maintenance
- — Governs the installation, calibration, proving, troubleshooting, and repair of field test instrumentation and auxiliary metering equipment so measurement continues without interruption.
- Process Safety Management (PSM)
- — Ensures field measurement assignments are planned and executed under proper permitting, safety, and environmental precautions in open field environments involving high voltage and chemicals.
- Electronic Flow Measurement
- — Oversees the deployment, configuration, and integrity of electronic flow measurement systems capturing flow, pressure, and temperature data across pipeline and production sites.
- Measurement Integrity and Reporting
- — Ensures accuracy of gas and crude measurement and its reporting by verifying calibration records, tolerances, and condition-survey field data against established standards.
- Field Team Supervision
- — Leads, schedules, and develops teams of measurement technicians, allocating resources and coverage across sites including callout and emergency-response readiness.
- Meter Proving and Troubleshooting
- — Directs proving of metering equipment and root-cause troubleshooting of complex, sometimes undocumented, chemical analysis and flow measurement systems in coordination with engineers and manufacturers.
- Condition Survey and Field Inspection
- — Oversees visual field inspections, detailed condition surveys, and preparation of condition-survey reports based on field measurement data and material-defect assessment.
- Measurement Operations Budgeting
- — Sets and manages operating budgets and instrumentation capital plans for a measurement department or division, balancing accuracy, uptime, and cost.
- Field Measurement Technology Strategy
- — Defines the roadmap for measurement technology — remote telemetry, field software systems, and next-generation electronic flow measurement — across the measurement organization.
- Regulatory and Compliance Oversight
- — Ensures field measurement practices comply with safety, environmental, and custody-transfer regulations and negotiates measurement-integrity matters with regulatory and industry bodies.
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