Senior Drilling Optimization Engineer

Precision Drilling; Calgary; On-site; CAD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Precision Drilling is seeking a Senior Drilling Optimization Engineer to enhance client drilling performance and operations through advanced technical analysis. With a focus on real-time data and project management, this role offers a supportive work culture and opportunities for career growth within the largest drilling contractor in Canada.

Benefits

Medical, dental, prescription drug, and life insurance

Pension match

Long-term disability coverage

Free fitness membership

Product discount programs

Competitive vacation and PTO offerings

Qualifications

• 10-15 years of related experience required.
• Experience in service companies and directional drilling is an asset.
• Experience with data analytics and reporting is an asset.

Responsibilities

• Support customer performance improvement initiatives.
• Monitor real-time data throughout drilling operations.
• Develop training materials and guide the development of other Engineers.

Skills

Advanced understanding of drilling practices and procedures

Advanced understanding of down-hole tools and technology

Advanced understanding of directional drilling practices

Ability to interpret time and depth-based measurements

Intermediate understanding of data acquisition systems

Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering from an accredited University

EIT or P. Eng accredited with APEGA

Job description

If you are an experienced Senior Drilling Optimization Engineer looking to enjoy work-life balance, then please read on…

Precision Drilling has an opening for a Senior Drilling Optimization Engineer, eager for fresh challenges and development toward potential future career growth as our business continues to innovate and grow.

Working for Precision Drilling means being immersed in a supportive culture that recognizes you as a strategic player in Precision Drilling’s future. We are a large company with a family feel, where you will collaborate with leadership and your colleagues across the organization.

Combined with a competitive remuneration package, you will enjoy the advantages of:

• Medical, dental, prescription drug, life insurance, Pension match, long-term disability coverage, a free fitness membership steps away from our offices and product discount programs.
• A casual work environment where you can expect to enjoy a work-life balance that promotes personal health, well-being, and family life!
• Personal development to grow your career with us based on your strengths and interests.
• Precision has a competitive vacation and PTO offering including afternoons off before a long weekend.

Summary

Precision's Alpha suite of technologies delivers exceptional value to our customers by reducing risks, time and overall well cost. Alpha drives performance through its core strength of integrating data insights, human ingenuity, automation consistency and smart algorithms to drill the best wells, every time.

The Senior Drilling Optimization Engineer supports Precision’s Alpha Technologies product line by working closely with the customer, Precision’s Alpha Remote Operating Center, Rig Automation Engineers, Sales and Operations teams to gain a thorough understanding of the customer’s objectives and ensure Precision delivers high performance high value across Canada and US operations.

This is a hands-on technical position with the responsibility to perform detailed engineering analysis. This position is responsible for the early detection of drilling hazards and the development of recommendations for optimizing drilling operations. Focusing on the entire well construction process to identify opportunities to increase operational efficiency through analysis of on-bottom and flat time operations activities by utilizing pre-determined event fingerprinting, data validation, and Well Engineering & Project Management best practices.

Responsibilities

Customer Interface

• Understand our customer’s drilling challenges and identify specific Alpha technologies to provide value focused solutions
• Work closely with our customer to determine objectives and performance goals of drilling programs
• In collaboration with our customer, develop and monitor Alpha performance road maps
• Monitor active drilling projects seeking opportunities to deliver value to our customers
• Support customer performance improvement initiatives
• Work closely with the customer and rig automation team to support deployment of new Applications
• Support the development of new applications by integrating customer feedback with well construction and drilling engineering best practices
• Support Precision Operations teams in Alpha new product roll-out

Operations

• Monitor real-time data throughout drilling operations for assigned rig lines
• Perform T&D modeling and analysis to develop recommendations.
• Learn and assist with recognizing trends in real-time data which relate to improvement opportunities or health of the well and the avoidance of drilling hazards
• Develop daily reports with remote operations center, which include essential measured data and descriptions on activities, trends, and recommendations for improvements
• Collect and apply drilling data to operations improvement (both real-time and recorded)
• Assist with and ensure PD essential personnel have access to real-time information or are informed in a timely manner of improvement opportunities or trends that suggest potential drilling hazards
• Assist field operations personnel with data analysis and decision-making in addition to assisting customers on the use of apps related to Rig Automation
• Provide support to operations as required, including after-hours support
• Travel to field location as required to support operations and performance improvement efforts
• Keep up to date and review new data acquisition technology for possible application to the rigs continuous improvement by using Alpha Remote Operations Process to circulate information about best practices, lessons learned and technical alerts
• Guide Drilling Optimization Engineer’s development through mentoring.
• Develop training materials
• Develop standard work practices for the Optimization Role

Knowledge & Skills

Advanced understanding of fundamentals of drilling practices and procedures

Advanced understanding of down-hole tools and technology

Advanced understanding of directional drilling practices

Advanced ability to interpret changes in multiple time and/or depth-based measurements and how it can be used to recognize improvement opportunities or mitigate hazards

Intermediate understanding of data acquisition systems, measurement devices, data transmission, wellsite data sources and transmission times

Intermediate understanding of data analytics tools and approaches.

Ability and willingness to learn through practical on the job training (both office and field)

Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills

Ability to work with diverse professionals comprising of clients, stakeholders, vendors, operations team, rig team and engineering peers

Contribute to sustaining a positive, progressive, and supportive team environment

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering from an accredited University

EIT or P. Eng accredited with APEGA;

Experience

10-15 years of related experience

Experience working for Service companies is a requirement

Directional drilling or rig field experience is an asset

Experience with data analytics and reporting is an asset

About the company

Precision Drilling Corporation is the largest drilling rig contractor in Canada, also providing oil field rental and supplies.

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