Senior Completions Engineer
John Wood Group
- Houston, TX
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Location: Houston, TX
- Schedule: 5/40 hybrid
- Travel: will involve international travel
- Duration: 12 months, subject to extension
- Develop completion designs and cost estimates, where such estimates and plans are distributed both internally and to partners for business planning.
- Working with the subsurface, production, drilling team members and vendors to develop completion detailed procedures following regulations and company standards.
- Work with Offshore Production and Subsurface teams to develop stimulation programs to mitigate scale build up, water blockages and other downhole issues. Supervise operational execution of the programs.
- Supervise coiled tubing N2 jetting of wells that have liquid loaded.
- Work with asset team members to identify and mitigate any well production risks associated with downhole scale formation or completion/formation deterioration.
- Support and provide oversight supervision during the operational execution of completion activities.
- Work within the Company's Management System confines, utilize and embrace the Management of Change requirements.
- Perform casing and tubing design, analysis, and integrity models to ensure isolation and integrity during stimulation and during the life cycle of production operations.
- Identify completion equipment needs, participate in equipment and vendor selection and monitoring of selected vendor performance.
- Generate well/project specific AFEs and track variances to actual performance.
- Interface and collaborate regularly with the global supply chain team, drilling/production/reservoir engineers, geoscientists, data scientists and HES personnel.
- Perform monthly accounting responsibilities such as cost tracking, equipment inventory control, accruals, and variance analysis.
- Prepare and deliver technical presentations for management reviews, peer reviews, and technical committee meetings.
- Accept accountability for success and failure; communicate and disseminate details on both to improve overall operational efficiency and HES performance.
- Provide safety leadership throughout completion operations. Participate in or lead incident investigations, vendor visits, or safety meetings as required.
- Education - Petroleum or Mechanical Engineering degree preferred, but based on work history an alternative engineering degree is acceptable.
- 7-12 years of experience: 7+ years conventional completion engineering / well servicing experience, minimum 3 years with an Operator. Offshore operations experience preferred.
- Ability to travel internationally to Equatorial Guinea for meetings and work short term or rotational assignments to provide 24/7 support for operations oversight.
- Solid technical background on casing & tubing designs, completion equipment, cased hole logging/diagnostics, well servicing with wireline and coiled tubing.
- Awareness of completion / well servicing workflow processes and software (SAP, WellCat, WellView, Nodal Analysis, etc.)
- Software experience with Cerberus or similar downhole/conveyance modeling software.
- Strong command of Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Project, Access).
- Additional Skills: Must have excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to handle and prioritize multiple tasks at one time. Must be a self-motivated individual with a strong drive to improve results and possess excellent teamwork/collaboration, planning, and organizing skills.
- Fluent in Spanish (written and verbal communication) is a plus.