Engineering Team Leader - Drilling

Role Summary:

We are looking for an Engineering Team Leader - Drilling (ETL-Drilling) to lead a Drilling Engineering team for Wells activities in the North Sea & Atlantic Margins team!

This is a senior level leader role accountable for the delivery of drilling activities on several rig lines, verifying the quality of drilling engineering to deliver safe, reliable, and competitive wells and supporting the technical and professional development of the drilling engineering team.

With a range of platform, jack-up and semi-submersible activity delivering exploration and development wells across hubs in the North Sea and Mauritania & Senegal, the NS&AM team has an exciting variety of activity in challenging operating environments.

Key Accountabilities:

• Overseeing conformance with applicable OMS requirements.

• Overseeing the technical quality of Drilling Engineering work produced in the region, including providing expertise and advice.

• Promoting consistency and continuous improvement in well planning - this includes standard templates, ownership of region-wide technical file notes or deviations.

• Verifying regional regulations are understood and designs compliant.

• Leading engineering self-verification and oversight of drilling engineering.

• Supporting risk assessments for deviations from standards and outlining technical actions to mitigate risk.

• Collaborating with central enabling teams to get technical support.

• Capturing and embedding regional engineering lessons and documenting these through Connexus for global uptake

• Driving continuous improvement, performance and cost management within well planning activities to deliver increasingly competitive wells

• Managing the development of drilling engineers in the region, responsible for the performance assessment cycle, and competency development.

• Acting as the CAM for major supplier(s) of well services and assigning CAMs for the individual contracts within the team in region.

• Decision rights as part of the well delivery workflow RAPIDs on technical documents and decision points.

• Technical review of and input to time and cost estimates performed as part of the well delivery workflow.

• Act as Budget Responsible Office (BRO) for well activity within remit.

Education:

Bachelor of Science/ Engineering degree or equivalent technical degree

Well Control Certification Combined Supervisor IADC or IWCF.

Essential skills and experience:

Significant drilling engineering experience with a breadth of experience in a variety of different fields/projects.

Proven drive for continuous improvement, risk management and performance management to deliver competitive wells.

Experience of motivating teams and able to coach and mentor people with different styles and backgrounds.

Able to demonstrate skills at relationship building, influencing, building consensus around plans and getting alignment.

Why join our team?

We support our people to learn and grow in a diverse and challenging environment. We believe that our team is strengthened by diversity. We are committed to crafting an inclusive environment in which everyone is respected and treated fairly. 

There are many aspects of our employees’ lives that are meaningful, so we offer benefits to enable your work to fit with your life. These benefits can include flexible working options, collaboration spaces in a modern office environment, and many others benefits!

Apply now!