Duration & Location
Starting DateApril-May 2024
Duration12 Months
LocationWest Africa
Status Rotational (4×4)
Project Dimension
The Lead Drilling Engineer/Superintendent will be involved in subsea activities with a drillship.
Therefore, floating experience is required.
Responsibilities
- Reports to the Drilling Manager
- Sets up and manages with the drilling team
- Manages the well operations to ensure it is executed as per the approved drilling programme
- Drives operational performance
- Promote the principles of continuous improvement
- Ensures real time monitoring of the project and implements improvements on a timely basis event, and for the preparation and submission of end of well reports
- Approves and instructs the Well Site Supervisor on changes to the programme
- Provides operational support to the Well Site Supervisor
- Provides technical and operational support and QA/QC for the Senior Drilling Engineer's work
- Manages expenditure versus AFEs
- Participates in risk and hazard assessments
- Continually identifies technical, operational and HSE risks and puts in place sensible mitigation measures to reduce these risks
- Maintains good two-way communication with team members at the rig and base
- Ensures regulatory compliance is properly maintained
- Provides guidance and support to personnel as required
- Ensures compliance with HSSE Management System
- Liaises with the client's representatives, in the execution of contract obligations
- Ensures the maintenance program is properly implemented and maintained on the assigned rig
- Guides rig personnel in pre-planning upcoming jobs with materials on hand to ensure that all planned and unplanned opportunities are maximized
- Maintains competent and capable rig crews and provides leadership in fostering the safety-is-a-value culture
- Ensures that standards of supervision and personnel performance are monitored and corrected where required
- Ensures equipment repair and returns are monitored and expedited and certification requirements met
- Part of the emergency response team
Profile
- Industry experience level minimum 15 years
- Valid IWCF Level 4
- Valid BOSIET for offshore work
- Valid Medical certificate for O&G Offshore
- Proven career advancement and variety of job positions held
- Minimum 10 years' experience as a Senior Drilling Engineer / Drilling Superintendent
- Overall, 10 years' experience on land wells and recent experience on offshore well operations (floater rig)
- Multiple country work experience - Offshore Africa preferable
- Deep experience in performance driven culture and practices
- Ability to get the best out of the work force
- Mentors the client's work force
- Determination to deliver and improve
- Fluent in written and spoken English language.
- Strong analytical and communication skills together with excellent computer literacy