Senior Workover Engineer

Key Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership and engineering support for workover and completion operations.
• Design and optimize completion and workover fluid systems, including brines, filtration, fluid-loss control, displacement programs, and wellbore cleanup solutions.
• Lead the development of acid stimulation programs for sandstone and carbonate reservoirs.
• Lead the design and execution of hydraulic fracturing and acid fracturing treatments.
• Provide technical oversight of remedial cementing operations, including squeeze cementing, water shut-off treatments, tie-back liner cementing, cement plugs, and zonal isolation projects.
• Review and approve Workover engineering programs, risk assessments, and Management of Change (MOC) documentation.
• Prepare technical specifications, scopes of work, and tender packages for stimulation, fluid, and cementing services.
• Conduct technical evaluations of service providers and support contract award recommendations.
• Evaluate new technologies and work with service companies to identify opportunities for operational improvement and production enhancement.
• Investigate operational incidents and service quality issues, perform root cause analyses, and develop lessons learned.
• Develop engineering standards, procedures, and best practices within the discipline.
• Mentor and train junior Iraqi engineers and provide technical guidance across the organization.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Petroleum Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related engineering discipline.
• Minimum 15 years of relevant oil and gas industry experience.
• Demonstrated experience in:
• Brownfield rig workover operations
• Completion and workover fluids
• Brine systems, filtration, and fluid-loss control
• Sandstone and carbonate acid stimulation
• Hydraulic fracturing and acid fracturing
• Completion with artificial lift systems, preferably ESPs
• Remedial cementing and well integrity solutions
• Technical contract preparation and bid evaluation
• Strong understanding of well performance, production enhancement, and completion practices.
• Experience working with multidisciplinary teams in large onshore oilfield developments.
• Excellent technical, communication, problem-solving, and stakeholder management skills.

What We Offer

• Opportunity to work on one of the world's largest producing oil fields.
• Challenging and technically diverse engineering responsibilities.
• Exposure to advanced stimulation, completion, and well integrity technologies.
• Collaborative work environment with multidisciplinary teams and leading service providers.
• Structured rotational schedule (28/28) with accommodation, travel and logistics support provided while on assignment.
• International health insurance coverage

Role Purpose

The Senior Workover Engineer is the focal point for completion fluids, stimulation, hydraulic fracturing, and cementing engineering activities, ensuring safe, technically robust, and cost-effective execution of operations while supporting asset production, well integrity, and long-term field development objectives.