Drilling Specialist - North Slope, AK

Worley Group, Inc; Alaska; Remote; USD 85,000 - 115,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Meals and lodging provided

Transportation between Anchorage and N

Job summary

Worley Group, Inc. seeks a Drilling Specialist for remote, rotational work on Alaska's North Slope. The role requires coordinating materials, inventory, and equipment to support drilling operations while ensuring safety and efficiency.

You will work with drilling, supply chain, and logistics teams, manage procurement, and help optimize inventory usage in a challenging Arctic environment. Training and mentorship are provided.

Qualifications

• Three years of experience in materials coordination, inventory control, or related field.
• Proficiency with computerized inventory and material management systems.
• Office Suite proficiency (Word, Excel, Outlook).
• Valid driver's license and ability to be insured by Worley.

Responsibilities

• Provide 24-hour support for rig materials and equipment needs.
• Coordinate procurement, transport, receipt, storage, and delivery of drilling materials.
• Monitor inventory levels of drilling consumables, tubulars, and related materials.
• Coordinate with vendors to prepare equipment for rig use.
• Ensure materials are available to support ongoing drilling operations.
• Track material status from PO issuance to delivery and utilization.
• Communicate with operations, logistics, engineering and vendors regarding material needs and schedules.
• Assist with mobilization/demobilization of rigs and equipment.

Skills

Organizational skills

Planning

Prioritization

Communication

Self-starter

Education

High school diploma or GED

Tools

SAP

Maximo

Oracle

Job description

This is a remote/ rotational position, working on the North Slope of Alaska. The typical schedule is 84 hours per week (40 hours straight time and a minimum of 44 hours at time and a half). All meals and lodging are provided by Worley while the employee is on location. Transportation between Anchorage and the North Slope is provided.

Worley offers a competitive benefits package, with company paid short-term disability, life insurance, paid sick leave, and 4.5% employer match on 401k.

Job Summary:

The Drilling Specialist is responsible for the planning, coordination, tracking, and management of materials, equipment, and inventory required to support drilling operations on Alaska's North Slope. This position serves as a critical link between drilling operations, supply chain, logistics providers, warehouses, vendors, and field personnel to ensure materials are available when needed while maintaining inventory accuracy and operational efficiency. The Drilling Specialist plays an essential role in minimizing drilling downtime, controlling inventory costs, and ensuring safe and compliant material movements.

Essential Job Functions:

• 24-hour support for all rig's field requests (FR) materials or equipment needs.
• Coordinate the procurement, transportation, receipt, storage, and delivery of drilling-related materials and equipment.
• Monitor inventory levels of drilling consumables, tubulars, casing, drilling fluids, wellhead equipment, and other critical drilling materials.
• Coordinates with vendors to have the drilling and completion equipment prepared and ready for the rig's usage.
• Ensure critical materials are available to support ongoing drilling operations and upcoming well programs.
• Track material status from purchase order issuance through delivery and field utilization.
• Coordinate with drilling supervisors, drilling engineers, logistics personnel, warehouse staff, and vendors regarding material requirements and delivery schedules.
• Coordinates and communicates with the logistics and aviation team the needs of the rigs at WNS to move inventory and tools across the river.
• Monitor material consumption rates and identify opportunities to improve inventory management and reduce waste.
• Support mobilization and demobilization activities for drilling rigs and associated equipment.
• Ensure all material handling activities comply with company safety policies and environmental requirements.
• Participate in daily operational meetings and communicate material availability, shortages, and delivery schedules.
• Support emergency material requests and coordinate expedited deliveries when operationally required.
• This role will require outdoor work in the winter.
• Train and mentor the Drilling Coordinators and Drilling Techs on the drilling equipment and tools.

Knowledge, Skills, Ability:

• Must be a self-starter; able to work independently with minimal supervision.
• Strong organizational, planning, and prioritization skills.
• Ability to manage multiple tasks and deadlines in a fast-paced operational environment.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Working knowledge of drilling operations, drilling equipment, and drilling consumables.
• Understanding of inventory management, warehouse operations, procurement processes, and supply chain principles.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite, particularly Excel, Outlook, and Word.
• Experience using ERP systems, inventory management software, SAP, Maximo, Oracle, or similar platforms.
• Ability to analyze inventory usage trends and forecast material requirements.
• Strong attention to detail and commitment to data accuracy.
• Ability to work effectively with operations, logistics, engineering, and supply chain personnel.
• Ability to demonstrate adherence to established safety policies and procedures.
• Ability to demonstrate support for the company's environmental management system.
• Sound knowledge of operations and safety policies and procedures.
• Knowledge of material packaging processes, techniques and materials
• High attention to detail, able to manage multiple priorities and work fronts simultaneously.

Physical Demands/Work Environment:

Work is performed in a remote Arctic environment with limited medical resources. Candidate understands the site is approximately 840 miles (at least 4 hours by air ambulance) from surgical, specialist, and tertiary medical care, and where medical evacuation from this location may be significantly delayed due to weather conditions. The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the essential functions of this job, the employee is required to:

• Must have ability to stand, walk on level, uneven and slippery surfaces, sit, squat, kneel, crawl, reach through low and high ranges, work overhead, and exhibit normal balance and coordination. These basic physical requirements are essential for safe performance of the job in harsh environments with exposure to very cold temperatures and while wearing arctic gear.
• Standing for prolonged periods of time.
• Driving for prolonged periods of time in the dark and inclement weather
• Ability to climb scaffold, ramps, stairs, equipment, portable ladders, and/or wellhouse/tank/facility fixed ladders of 20 feet or greater.
• Ability to wear and utilize fall protection within manufacturer specifications.
• Lift 50 lbs. from floor to waist with two hands.
• Lift 50 lbs. from floor to shoulder with two hands.
• Carry 50 lbs. for 15 feet with two hands.
• Push/pull 60 lbs. sled for 20 feet.
• Push/pull 90 lbs. cart for 20 feet.

This job description is intended to describe the nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this position. It is not to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities and duties required of the job incumbents. Worleyprovides reasonable accommodation to qualified individuals with disabilities, including both applicants and employees, to allow the individual to perform the essential functions of the job, unless doing so would create an undue hardship.

Required Qualifications:

• Three (3) years of experience in materials coordination, inventory control, warehouse operations, logistics, supply chain, drilling support, or a related field.
• Proficiency with computerized inventory and material management systems.
• One (1) year experience working on Office Suite programs (i.e. Word, Excel and Outlook).
• High school diploma or equivalent (GED).
• Valid driver's license and the ability to be covered by Worley auto insurer.

Moving forward together

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