Senior Drilling Engineer

Title: Senior Drilling Engineer

Department: Drilling

Reporting To: Technical Manager (Daily liaison with Drilling Superintendent for operational issues)

Location: Tunisia

Requirements:

• Engineering degree from a recognized school or equivalent related industry experience.
• Minimum 15 yeas experience in Well engineering and operations (both office and field experience)
• Experience in the whole well life cycle
• Track record of performance improvement & optimization
• Valid IWCF certificate
• Can do attitude and performance oriented
• Lead by example
• Strong analytical approach to solve technical complex problems
• Ability to train/ mentor junior engineers

Duties:

• Promote the client safety culture in all aspects of assigned work
• Ensure full compliance with policies & procedures and International Oilfield Best Practices
• Undertake planning and execution of well operations programs safely, efficiently and within budget – in conjunction with production operations & subsurface teams
• Ensure availability of third-party services equipment and personnel for well operations
• Responsible for overseeing the design and construction of new wells.
• Supervise well operations on site whenever required
• Ensure continuous improvement and optimization of well operations
• Set performance targets for each operation and prepare the roadmap to meet them
• Budgeting and cost control in collaboration with finance team
• Well engineering, design and technical integrity aspects of well projects and ensuring the safe and efficient execution of well projects.
• Develops well design documentation, drilling programmes and associated documentation
• Management of Change
• Prepare SOW for ITTs related to well operations and support contracting / procurement teams in bids evaluation and contracts management
• Reporting (daily reports, EOWR, AAR…), data management, coordination of workshops (DWOP, WOWOP, Pre-spud, Service Quality Meetings…)
• Communicate effectively internally and externally
• Can handle multitask simultaneously and deliver within agreed deadlines under minimum supervision
• Provides support to Drilling Superintendant and Drilling team and provides operational cover as required

Desirable:

• Good petroleum engineering qualification.
• Recent exposure to onshore TUNISIAN oil and gas operations.
• French spoken and written is beneficial.
• Large Tunisian experience in a multi-cultural environment would prove beneficial.

Output:

• Well Operations Programs (drilling, completions and well interventions)
• Well Operations Optimization
• A well drilled and completed in accordance with the program and in a safe efficient manner
• Comprehensive Lessons Learnt database
• Daily, weekly and Adhoc reports.
• Service Company job tickets verified and signed
• IADC reports checked and signed
• Tendering and Service Quality Meetings