Senior Drilling Engineer

Our client is currently recruiting for the position of Senior Drilling Engineer, based in Aberdeen. This will be on a 12 month PAYE contract working from city centre offices.

Responsibilities

• Prepare well designs, drilling programmes and regulatory submissions in compliance with UK statutory requirements and company policies, standards and procedures.
• Conduct well planning in accordance with the Well Delivery Process (WDP) and ensure compliance with well examination scheme.
• Ensure detailed risk assessment (HAZOP/HAZID) conducted prior to operational execution in accordance with company risk management process.
• Prepare scopes of work and appropriate technical specifications for procurement of equipment and services.
• Technical lead for assigned contracts. Responsible for managing the agreed relationship with service providers and in setting the KPIs with the Contract Owner and C&P Specialist
• Provide input as required into preparation of permits and applications to UK regulatory authorities.
• Prepare scoping, budgetary and AFE level well cost estimates (deterministic and/or probabilistic)
• Timely identification of long lead material and equipment to facilitate procurement
• Monitor and measure performance against expectations. Analyse variances and capture lessons learned.
• Coordinate and liaise with other company disciplines on well related issues.
• Coordinate service company support to company.
• Provide technical and operational support to the well operations team during execution, as required.
• Risk assess and implement Management of Change (MoC) process for revisions to approved programmes/ scopes of work in accordance with company policies, standards and procedures.
• Review operational written instructions (after development by offshore rig management and service specialists) prior to offshore approval
• Report and investigate non-productive and lost time and issue Non-Conformance Reports (NCR) as appropriate during operations (determine root cause, define actions to prevent recurrence).
• Implementation of lessons learned system and championing of all performance improvement initiatives applicable to drilling operations.
• Oversee JV operations as delegated by Well Engineering Manager.
• Emergency Response delegate.

Experience & Qualifications

• Individual contributor. Enthusiastic self -development as a Drilling Engineer.
• Bachelor’s degree in Drilling Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Petroleum Engineering or similar (preferred) or vocational training with extensive experience in well engineering and site supervision, with proven track record.
• Relevant experience (minimum) in well engineering and site supervision.
• IWCF Well Control Certification
• Able to work and communicate effectively with colleagues, partners and all other stakeholders.
• Respecting the knowledge and experience of others, sharing information and building effective relationships.

Contract position