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Drilling - Senior Completion Engineer

Position title

Completion Engineer

Contract

Permanent Contract

Contractual hours

Full-time

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This is a great opportunity to join our Wells department as a Completions Engineer. The successful candidate will be responsible for providing completions support to the Supervisors and Workover Engineers both when the Rig is Operational and non-Operational. You will ensure that rig activities are correctly recorded, and that equipment run has been checked and conforms to required standards.

This is a Monday-Friday office-based role at Wytch Farm, Dorset.

Key Responsibilities Include:
• Work with Lead Workover Engineer and Site Services Manager to provide operational support and duty cover for workovers and interventions
• Work with Wells Team Lead, Senior Well Engineer, Rig Manager & Drilling Manager to ensure the technical integrity of completions operations is maintained
• Support Lead Workover Engineer to manage and meet workover budgets
• Provide technical input to procurement and contracts teams for completion equipment
• Ensure equipment procurement and lead times are managed to facilitate budgeted workovers

Planning (office based)
• Interface with PE & engineering teams to prepare completions SOR documents.
• Support Lead Workover Engineer and Well Intervention Engineer to prepare HSE Submissions, workover programmes & completion drawings ensuring they comply to legislation and Perenco standards
• Set up, review and agree rig timings with Lead Workover Engineer and Workover Supervisor
• Optimise generic completion designs to improve completion efficiency and production
• Specify and select detailed equipment requirements
• Liaise with SSM on equipment requirements, delivery and long lead issues
• Control and monitor purchased equipment (liaise with WYF Stores), managing stock levels for completions equipment
• Attend, daily / weekly planning meetings to ensure co-ordination between Workover and asset operations.
• Complete completions related eMOCs for any changes to the way we operate
• Assist the planning of Rig moves and set up new Wells on group reporting system

Operational (site based)
• Demonstrate HSE leadership on site and support Workover Supervisor to deliversafe and efficient operations.
• Support Lead Workover Engineer with all programme amendments and equipment / services requirements.
• Collate equipment call off lists for use by the site team.
• Provide technical support to Workover Supervisor during workovers.
• Update well completion schematic post workover
• Collect lessons learnt and track NPT
• Produce end of well summary report
• Prepare rig timings with WS
• Ensure WHM sheets are filled out & valve S/N updated on tree drawing on EOWR
• Responsible for all well handovers
• Responsible for updating intranet report daily
• Complete site positioning eMOCs for all workovers
• Sign off jobs in Maximo for WHM & DHSV/DHIV
• Ensure an up-to-date equipment and services list is maintained for ‘on site’ items and personnel
• Oversee timely call out and return of equipment from site

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• Carry out logistic reviews on a regular basis to help understand lessons learnt and enable improvements to the current system

Performance Monitoring
• Ensure accurate, detailed records of operations are kept, including well diaries, completion drawings, serial numbers, final tallies etc.

Equipment
Manage the specification (SOR), procurement and stockage of:
• Completion jewellery
• Electrical Cables and accessories
• Control Lines
• Tubing
• Wellheads

Costs
• Review cost forecasts / AFEs and ensure costs are managed in line with targets
• Collate quotations to allow cost estimation
• Review Invoices where required
• Provide technical input to procurement and contracting
• Ensure all PRs for the well are raised and POs are correct and issued to suppliers
• Oversee purchase order values against cost trackers to ensure orders do not overspend
• Review options for reducing costs, such as bringing work in house, or changing how we work
• Set up and maintain a daily cost tracking system for equipment on location to allow comparison between budgets and estimated spend, and a daily rig cost to be produced
• Check and agree all stock transactions against Rig team cost codes

SEC & Personal Safety Courses:

• IWCF L4 Well Intervention Pressure Control (Supervisor) or equivalent
• Task Based Risk Assessment (Level 2)

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Key Requirements Include:

• Qualifications: IWCF L4 Well Intervention Pressure Control (Supervisor)
• Degree qualification in relevant Engineering or Science discipline

Experience:

• Experience with well intervention & workover operations essential
• Broad understanding of completion equipment required
Personal Attributes:

• Ability to self-motivate and work as part of a small team
• Good verbal & written communication skills
• A good aptitude for problem solving and troubleshooting
• Well organised and able to prioritise workload effectively

Benefits:

At Perenco we value and reward our people, offering competitive salaries and a wide range of benefits including:

• Life Assurance
• Private Medical Insurance
• Flexible Benefit Allowance
• Excellent Pension Provision
• 25 Days Holiday
• Discretionary Bonus
• Profit ‘Units’ Sharing Scheme

Position location

Job location

Europe, United Kingdom, Wytch Farm (Dorset)

Precision

Candidate criteria

Education level

3-year university degree

Experience level

4 to 10 years