Field Service Specialist (Surface)

SLB; Aberdeen City; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 70,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private healthcare

Dental care

Pension contributions

Income protection

Cycle to work

Job summary

SLB in Aberdeen is seeking a Field Service Specialist to deliver safe, efficient service across Cameron Surface Wellhead and Christmas Tree systems. You will install, commission, maintain and troubleshoot equipment onshore and offshore, ensuring integrity and high performance.

You will collaborate closely with customers and internal teams, provide technical guidance, and support risk assessments while maintaining HSSE standards. Willingness to travel, including outside the UK, is essential.

Qualifications

• Minimum 2 years relevant experience as a wellhead technician.
• Willingness to travel, including potential UK/International assignments.
• Experience with Cameron Surface Wellhead and Christmas Tree Systems preferred.

Responsibilities

• Install, commission, maintain, troubleshoot and retrieve Cameron Surface Wellhead and Christmas Tree Systems.
• Support drilling, completion, intervention and workover ops with surface wellhead expertise.
• Perform rig-up/rig-down, pressure and function tests ensuring readiness and integrity.
• Follow HSSE policies and work safely and compliantly at all times.
• Document service activities, non-conformances and performance in reporting systems.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Travel willingness

Technical troubleshooting

Team collaboration

Mentoring junior technicians

Tools

FSOs

Quest

InTouch

Job description

We are a global technology company, driving energy innovation for a balanced planet. At SLB, we create amazing technology that unlocks access to energy for the benefit of all. We are facing the world’s greatest balancing act—how to simultaneously reduce emissions and meet the world’s growing energy demands. Our collective future depends on decarbonizing the fossil fuel industry while innovating a new energy landscape. It’s what drives us. Ensuring progress for people and the planet, on the journey to net zero and beyond.

More than 98,000 employees across 120 countries have already started their SLB journeys. Start yours now!

If you would like to know more, please visit our website at https://www.slb.com/.

Job Summary

The Field Service Specialist is responsible for delivering safe, efficient, and high-quality service support across a range of wellsite operations. This includes the installation, commissioning, maintenance, troubleshooting, and retrieval of Cameron Surface Wellhead and Christmas Tree Systems, ensuring equipment integrity and reliable performance in both onshore and offshore environments.

Working closely with customers and internal teams, you will provide technical expertise throughout the service delivery process, helping to ensure safe operations, minimise downtime, and achieve successful customer outcomes.

Responsibilities and Duties

• Install, commission, maintain, troubleshoot and retrieve Cameron Surface Wellhead and Christmas Tree Systems, along with associated ancillary equipment.
• Support drilling, completion, intervention and workover operations by providing technical expertise on surface wellhead and pressure control equipment.
• Carry out rig-up, rig-down, pressure testing and function testing activities, ensuring equipment integrity and operational readiness.
• Adhere to all Health, Safety, Security and Environmental (HSSE) policies and procedures, ensuring work is carried out safely and compliantly at all times.
• Inspect, service and repair wellhead components, identifying faults and implementing effective corrective actions to minimise downtime.
• Provide technical support and guidance to customers on the operation, maintenance and troubleshooting of Cameron products.
• Participate in job risk assessments, pre-job planning and continuous improvement initiatives to support safe and efficient service delivery.
• Accurately document service activities, non-conformances and equipment performance using FSOs, Quest, InTouch and other reporting systems.
• Build strong working relationships with customers, contractors and internal teams to ensure successful execution of field operations.
• Maintain technical competency through training and assessments while supporting the development and mentoring of less experienced technicians.
• Complete service reports, timesheets and post-job debriefs in a timely manner.
• Minimum 2 years relevant experience as a wellhead technician
• Willingness to travel, including potential support for activities outside the UK.
• The desire to work in a fast-paced, dynamic business on high-value, technically complex products/projects.

Preferred Skills

• Strong interpersonal skills to communicate clearly and confidently.
• Be able to choose and initiate action.
• Be passionate about learning and development.
• Be eager to deliver results and meet demands.
• Remain positive during pressures, setbacks, and fast-paced environments.
• We offer private healthcare for employees and their families as well as subsidised dental care.
• We provide well-being programs such as Employee Mental health support and health and wellness coaching.
• Generous private employee-funded pension contributions.
• Income protection scheme and life insurance.
• Cycle to work scheme.
• We have multiple internal employee resources groups, female mentorship programs, volunteering opportunities, and company-wide webinars, amongst other opportunities.

SLB is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants are considered without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, status as a protected veteran or other characteristics protected by law.