Senior Completions Engineer
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Responsible for engineering, design and technical integrity aspects of completions, ensuring the safe and efficient execution of projects covering the full lifecycle (Complete, Workover, repurpose, P&A).
Associated responsibilities:
KEY DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:
Technical Leadership:
Risk Management:
Associated responsibilities:
- Provides input to well construction, workover and abandonment studies, reviews and design projects.
- Provides (completion) engineering support to well operations.
KEY DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:
Technical Leadership:
- Directs the design of the completion, checking and confirming the validity of engineering calculations and assumptions.
- Lead engineering input on completion material and equipment selection, and quality assurance.
- Manage completion engineering activities to ensure safe, timely, and cost-effective delivery of well operations, and that the well / project objectives are met.
- Actively supports the well planning process in accordance with the Well Delivery Process.
- Interface with subsurface, drilling, supply chain, and finance teams to ensure successful project execution.
Risk Management:
- Ensures all completion activities comply with corporate policies, standards, procedures, and regulatory requirements.
- Leads completion design and operations risk assessments and ensure risks are managed and mitigated Captures and closes out lessons learned and analyses non-productive time (NPT) events.
Contractor Management:
- Prepares and evaluates tenders; acts as Technical Sponsor for selected contracts.
- Provides technical advice during prequalification and tender evaluation phases, ensuring contractor and supplier selection meets technical objectives and company standards.
- Supports the contractor management process by developing positive relationships with contractors and suppliers, and by ensuring contractor delivery against KPIs and scorecards.
Technical Analysis:
- Responsible for completion cost estimates (AFEs), for both future budgets and current operations, ensuring accuracy and reliability of cost data.
- Continuously monitors daily time and cost of operations, with regular reporting, cost forecasting, benchmarking, and performance analysis.
- Appraise new completion technologies and products to evaluate their potential to improve safety and performance.
Project Execution:
- Plans and schedules supply of completion materials and services.
- Prepares rig-based completion programmes and time & cost documentation for each phase of the project.
- Support project delivery activities, including participation in execution readiness reviews.
- Ensure all consents and legislative requirements are met.
Documentation & Reporting:
- Completes end-of-well reporting and support the well handover process.
- Ensures that actual well costs and other predefined KPIs are monitored and benchmarked.
- Captures non-conformance and lessons learned and ensure continuous performance reporting.
Continuous Improvement:
- Review existing lessons learned, and captures any new lessons.
- Reviews and proposes modifications to wells standards and guidelines to enhance safety and operational performance.
- Appraises new technologies and approaches for their value-adding potential across the well delivery lifecycle.
- Implements feedback and performance analysis to support continuous learning and improvement.
Training & Mentoring:
- Mentor other (completion) engineers and support knowledge transfer.
PERSON SPECIFICATION:
Knowledge & Qualifications:
- BSc / BEng or equivalent technical degree in an engineering, technology or science discipline,
- Offshore medical, survival.
- IWCF Level 4 (Or Equiv.).
Skills:
- Competent in Completion Design & Engineering Software (Stresscheck, WellCat, etc.).
- Competent in all aspects of Completion Design.
- Competent in using a Well Delivery Process.
- Capable of mentoring and training staff engineers.
- Capable of working independently and as part of a team.
Experience:
- Previous experience with an Operator or Well Management Company in a well engineering role.
