Senior Well Engineer

Overview

Weatherford is a leading global energy services company. Our world-class experts partner with customers to optimize their resources and realize the full potential of their assets. Across our operating locations, including manufacturing, research and development, service, and training facilities, operators choose us for strategic solutions that add efficiency, flexibility, and responsibility to any energy operation.

We are focused on technology development, digital solutions, and defining our footprint in the new energy space. Our ability to provide integrated solutions across our segments will be critical to growth in our core operations and the energy transition.

Energy producers face unique challenges every day, so it is our job to create solutions that enhance safety, streamline operations, and sustain uptime to meet or exceed their targets. We operate across the global energy landscape employing some of the best diverse talent in the industry. At Weatherford, we understand the value each individual brings to the table. We celebrate diversity in all its forms and are immensely proud of our workforce. We invite you to join our passionate, talented, world-class team.

When you join Weatherford, you instantly feel connected to something bigger - a community that is grounded by our core values and driven to create innovative solutions for our customers. We celebrate each other's successes, grow together, and learn from each other constantly. Individually, we are impressive. Together, we are unstoppable. We are One Weatherford.

Weatherford offers competitive compensation, a comprehensive benefits program and provides you a challenging and enriching career path, with a healthy balance of structure and flexibility to chart your own course.

Weatherford is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.

Responsibilities

Job Purpose

The Well Engineering IV Support as specialist the Well Engineer and project Team on the design, planning and support of well engineering in regards of drilling and completions by integrating Weatherford well construction technologies, industry solutions and thorough analysis in ISP projects. The Well Engineering IV work closely with the Engineering Lead and the rest of the team to prepare and execute the safest and most efficient plans to drill and complete wells.

Roles & Responsibilities

Safety, Security and Compliance

• Maintains the highest standards of corporate governance, ensuring that all activities are carried out ethically and in compliance with Company's Security, Compliance & HSE policies, Management System, relevant laws, regulations, standards, and industry practices and complies with the Company's Rules to Live By
• Places Quality, Health & Safety, Security and protection of the Environment as core values while never intentionally placing employees, our processes, customers or the communities in which we live and work at risk
• Seeks continual improvement in Health, Safety, Security & protection of the Environment, taking into account responsible care, process vulnerabilities, public, customer and employee inputs, knowledge and technology and best business practices to exceed customer expectations
• Supervisors & Managers should demonstrate effective safety leadership for the health and safety arrangements of all subordinates and for any persons visiting them while on the Company premises
• Support Health, Safety and Environment applying the policies and standard within the engineering process.

Quality

• Responsible for being familiar with the Company's Quality policies and takes an active role in the compliance and improvement of Weatherford's Management System
• Maintains service quality as immediate priorities when working across all areas of the business and continually seeks areas for improvement
• Leads auditing initiatives and regularly monitors TP and PLs KPIs
• Support continuous improvement through the documentation of best practices, lessons learned, technical alerts, etc.

Operations

• Lives by the ISP Well Construction Management System to ensure well integrity and delivery within planned time and budget and prepare corrective actions in case of deviations
• Develop and fully implement well engineering best practices, peer reviews and technology application during the planning, execution and closure phases for projects. Research and assess applicability of new technology to projects and support technical and/or business initiative that furthers the capabilities
• Ensure all wells are budgeted, planned and designed to contractual minimum standards, regulatory requirements, policies and full consideration of HSE & sustainability goals
• Manage Weatherford products and services as well as third party vendors to comply with technical scope and providing oversight of operations by facilitating short-term planning and scheduling of personnel, equipment and services
• Document and communicate learning from projects adequately
• Identify deviations to Weatherford Policies and Standards and document the adequate management of change and/or exemption process
• Acts as focal point for technical matters and is a liaison with his equivalent at the client side
• Provides advise on matters related to operational contingencies and together with the Superintendent validate alternate plans
• Responsible of the technical competency and capability of the engineering team. Develops training plans for the members of the technical team.

Communication

• Maintains effective communications with all key stakeholders both internal and where appropriate external
• Supervisors & Managers should clearly communicate expectations, roles and responsibilities to their reports
• Makes responsible decisions not usually subject to technical review, except those involving large sums of money or long-range objectives and takes action to expedite the assigned projects.

Financial

• All employees have an accountability to the organisation to be financially responsible whether they are in charge of a function budget or simply their own expenses
• Costs incurred should be within approved budget, processed within agreed time frames & following the relevant financial policy and procedure
• Support commercial aspect of projects by developing time estimates and performing comparisons vs AFE and guiding others in the process

People and Development

• Employees have a responsibility for developing their own careers within the Company including completing all necessary function, compliance & business standards training to enhance their knowledge, skills and experience
• Employees should engage on a regular basis with their line manager to discuss their personal performance, objectives and opportunities to enhance their skills and experience to support their career potential
• Supervisors are expected to actively engage their employees to support talent management through Weatherford's performance management process, including but not limited to talent assessments, succession planning & regular coaching opportunities
• Supervisors should collaborate with Human Resources & Training Development to drive strategies for the recruitment & retention of key personnel & to foster an environment that supports the attraction & retention of a high performing talented workforce.
• Receives administrative direction based on organization policies and objectives. Work is reviewed to ensure conformity with policy and co-ordination with other functions.

Vision & Leadership

• Demonstrates leadership, ethical behavior and adherence to Weatherford standards always
• Assigns and outlines work advises on technical problems reviews work for technical accuracy and adequacy.
• Calls for recommendations concerning selection, training, rating and discipline of staff.

Qualifications

Experience & Education

Required:

• MSc/B.Sc. in engineering or scientific discipline.
• Minimum 10 years of related Experience of relevant industry experience in a well engineering role (drilling/ completions), (QBE - Qualified By experience).
• Fully functional in Microsoft Office & industry used well engineering software
• Fluent written and spoken English

Preferred:

• Relevant experience both field and office in well engineering, preferably with an OFS Services Provider for Integrated Projects.
• Relevant industry-related training
• Fluent in more than one language

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

Required:

• Detailed understanding of drilling practices and procedures (planning, risk analysis, HAZOP, HAZID, pre-spud, roles of various asset team members, equipment, drilling program, drilling, cementing, evaluation, completion, reporting, wellsite personnel, drilling parameters, fluids, well control, directional drilling, wellsite services, local regulatory, etc.)
• Ability to organize and plan projects. Projects will often have technical and scope uncertainties and involve multiple phases and tight project timelines Strong communication organizing, trouble shouting and problem-solving capabilities in constrained and/or demanding conditions
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills. Ability to work with diverse professionals comprising of clients, stakeholders, vendors, operations team, rig team and engineering peers
• Practical and results orientated to deliver a plan encompassing all inputs that can be safely executed for given timelines. Mechanical aptitude and strong visualization capability required
• Contribute to sustaining a positive, progressive and supportive team environment
• Ability to apply and encourage a solution-based approach. Solution based involves understanding the client's needs and well problems and then investigating potential solutions which can be a change in well design, change in procedure or potentially the use of one or more common or specialty products.