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Huxley Associates; Kolkata; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 3,000,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment consultancy in India is seeking a Wellsite Team Leader to oversee drilling operations. You will ensure safety compliance and mentor junior staff while coordinating with contractors. This role requires extensive knowledge of HSE standards and the ability to lead critical activities on-site. Competitive compensation and opportunities for career progression are offered.

Qualifications

• Experience leading wellsite teams in drilling operations.
• Strong knowledge of HSE standards and compliance.
• Ability to mentor and develop junior staff.
• Prepares 24-hour look ahead and daily reports with rig team input.
• Mentors junior staff and conducts drills for well control and emergency response.

Responsibilities

• Conduct safety meetings and ensure compliance with safety standards.
• Coordinate well operations with contractors and third parties.
• Prepare and approve daily reports and cost estimates.
• Performs wellsite calculations and ensures readiness for well control events.

Skills

Leadership

Safety management

Risk assessment

Communication

Emergency response

Mentoring

Tools

QUEST

Job description

Leader of the wellsite team with overall responsibility for conducting well operations in a safe and efficient manner.

Ensures compliance with Schlumberger Policies and IPM standards.

Leads safety meetings.

Leads service company pre-job safety meetings to ensure good communication.

Identifies high risk situations, document them, and adopts risk mitigation using tools such as HARC, JSA

Performs daily QHSE / rig inspections

Implements the application of the Permit-To-Work System at the rig site

Assures the issuing and dissemination among the rig site personnel of all Emergency Response Plans to handle unscheduled events when occur

Conducts Safety Drills related to well control and other potential hazards involved in well operations

Participates in HSE and SQ event investigations and reporting as required.

Focal point for emergency response.

PLANNING AND OPERATIONS

Coordinates well operations with Drilling Contractor, Schlumberger Segments and Third Parties to ensure compliance with work programs, IPM standards, project procedures and contract requirements.

Prepares 24-hour look ahead document with Rig Supervisors.

Attends Daily planning meeting with Drilling Supervisors and the Rig Supervisors.

Issues Written Instructions to Drillers for each tour based on well program highlighting potential risks such as stuck pipe, losses and kicks.

Prepares detailed procedures for specific well operations (running casing, cementing, logging etc.).

Performs wellsite calculations e.g. cement jobs

Ensures well control event preparedness (SCR's, Leak off Tests, BOP Tests, kick sheets, shut in procedure etc.).

Ensures stuck pipe event preparedness (Drillers' first actions, maximum allowable overpull, fishing equipment etc)

Attends the rig floor to supervise critical activities such as (but not limited to)

Prepares/approves accurate Daily Report with input from rig contractor and service company personnel in a timely manner

Prepares/approves other reports e.g. casing, cementing etc as required

Prepares/approves daily cost estimate (if applicable)

Discusses Schlumberger morning report with Drilling Supervisors and Rig Supervisors.

Discusses Material Requests with Logistic Coordinator daily

Documents within 24 hours any failure or incident report (in QUEST where access possible)

Discusses program changes with project team being proactive in improvement suggestions

Initiates the Management of Change (MOC) process when required and communicates the issue to the Drilling Superintendent and / or Senior Drilling Engineer

TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT

Mentors junior staff at the wellsite

Assesses readiness of rig crew for well control events by conducting regular drills

Other drills e.g. emergency response as required

About The Company

Huxley Associates is an international recruitment consultancy that provides specialised contingency and retained recruitment solutions in the following sectors across the region.
• Accountancy and Finance
• Banking Technology
• Energy
• Engineering
• Global Markets
• Human Resources
• IT
• Legal
• Oil and Gas
• Sales and Marketing
• Supply Chain
• Telecommunications

Huxley Associates have enjoyed continuous growth over the past 16 years and have established a network of 16 offices around the world including Dubai, New York, London, Sydney, Frankfurt, Hong Kong, Paris and Singapore. We are widely regarded as one the worlds leading executive recruitment consultancies offering unparalleled training, career progression and support to our consultants. This enables best in class service delivery across the marketplaces we focus upon.

Huxley is committed to developing long term business relationships in the MENA region and take pride in the provision of quality recruitment support to our clients. Firms driven by a need to attract the best candidates from the local and international community use us repeatedly to gain competitive advantage in the acquisition of hard to find skillsets across the MENA region.