Senior Completion Engineer

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:

• 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.