Senior Drilling Engineer

Job description / Role

Employment: Full Time

Petrofac overview

Petrofac is a leading international service provider to the energy industry, with a diverse client portfolio including many of the world's leading energy companies.

We design, build, manage, and maintain infrastructure for our clients. We recruit, reward, and develop our people based on merit regardless of race, nationality, religion, gender, age, sexual orientation, marital status, or disability. We value our people and treat everyone who works for or with Petrofac fairly and without discrimination.

The world is rethinking its energy supply and energy security needs; planning for a phased transition to alternative energy sources. We are here to help our clients meet these evolving energy needs.

This is an exciting time to join us on this journey.

We support flexible working requests and have adopted a hybrid approach for most of our office-based roles. We ask employees to be present in the office at least three days per week.

Are you ready to bring the right energy to Petrofac and help us deliver a better future for everyone?

• Direct and supervise all aspects of the offshore drilling/workover routine and non-routine operations. Includes directing the work of assigned personnel, ensuring the work of contractors is in accordance with related contracts, following up on material, equipment and personnel movement to and from rigs, carrying out non-routine drilling operations, and checking, verifying and technically endorsing contractor's invoices.
• Review and optimize drilling/workover programme to meet job objectives.
• Review basis of well design (BOD) for each drilling/workover activity.

• Check programmes such as drilling, testing and directional plots in conjunction with the subsurface team (geology, RE and PE), ensuring that future wells are correctly programmed from operational point of view.
• Visit rig site for inspections or non-routine operations as deemed necessary. Includes evaluating new equipment or materials for testing new operating procedures, handling major operational problems such as fishing in open hole, stuck string, kick, side tracking, etc. Evaluate the non-routine operations, prepare necessary programme procedure and supervise the execution.

• Direct the activities of offshore drilling supervisor on the rig.
• Discuss operational problems with the offshore drilling supervisor and direct the execution of immediate corrective action if required.
• Oversee drilling/workover operations and prepare loading requests of equipment/materials related to rig operations.
• Coordinate with service companies for mobilization of the equipment and personnel as required.
• Arrange all necessary rig moving and diving assistance in conjunction with marine supervisor and production unit.

• Ensure proper maintenance of records of all company required drilling/workover equipment and tools. Includes advising the logistics function of lost equipment and preparing requisitions for replacement and advising contractors to replace lost equipment.
• Act as relief offshore drilling supervisor in emergency situations when offshore drilling supervisor is removed from the rig.
• Ensure the preparation and coordination of all necessary reports for the drilling/workover operations. Prepare requests for authorization forms pertaining to drilling/workover operations.

• Review all requirements for services and equipment required for tender, and prepare the necessary tender documents for all drilling/workover operations.
• Review and evaluate the tender documents submitted by contractors/sub-contractors.
• Prepare and manage drilling/workover budget.

• Establish, monitor and control progress of rig operations in accordance with approved budgeted costs, quality, timelines, standard of the contractors in order to ensure that the project objectives are met in line with approved parameters.
• Review the daily drilling/workover report to ensure that the drilling/workover programme is adhered to by the contractors and prepare related reports for concerned parties.
• Ensure reports are prepared to document the lessons learned.

• Recommend improvements to functional procedure and direct the implementation of instructions and controls covering a specific area of geological activity so that all relevant procedural/legislative requirements are fulfilled while delivering a quality, cost-effective service.

• Stimulate subordinates and contribute to the identification of opportunities for continuous improvement of the offshore production operations, systems, processes and practices considering international best practice, improvement of business processes, cost reduction and productivity improvement.

• Ensure compliance to all relevant quality, health, safety and environmental management policies, procedures and controls across the operations engineering section to guarantee employee safety, legislative compliance, delivery of high quality products/service and a responsible environmental attitude.
• Ensure effective accident investigation and follow-up in accord with statutory requirements and to ascertain the non-occurrences of the same incidents.

• Ensure that all functional reports of administration activities are prepared timely and accurately and meet client/function requirements, policies and standards.

Essential qualifications and skills

• Required: Engineering bachelor's degree e.g. Mechanical, Petroleum, Mining or equivalent with a good understanding of drilling technology and upstream processes.
• Preferred: Master's degree.

• Required: 8-10 years' drilling experience across multiple drilling locations.

• Drilling and completion.
• Well control.
• HSE (HAZID, SIMOPS).

About the Company

Petrofac is an international provider of facilities solutions to the oil & gas production and processing industries.

Petrofac delivers services through seven business units: Engineering & Construction, Engineering & Construction Ventures, Engineering Services, Offshore Engineering & Operations, Training, Production Solutions and Energy Developments.

Through these businesses, Petrofac designs and builds oil & gas facilities; operates, maintains and manages facilities and trains personnel; enhances production; and, where it can leverage its service capability, develops and co-invests in upstream and infrastructure projects.

Petrofac’s range of services meets its customers’ needs across the full life cycle of oil & gas assets.

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