Senior Drilling Engineer

Precision Drilling; United States; On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Precision Drilling is seeking a Senior Drilling Engineer in Houston to work closely with customers and internal teams to understand objectives and deliver high-value drilling solutions.

You will guide drilling programs, analyze performance, and support deployment of new technologies across U.S. operations. The role emphasizes collaboration, data-driven decision making, and field immersion.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering (Petroleum preferred) with 10–15 years of Houston-based E&P experience.
• Experience with data analytics and reporting is an asset.
• Strong knowledge of drilling practices, down-hole tools, and hydraulics.

Responsibilities

• Understand customer drilling challenges and identify technologies to provide value.
• Collaborate with customers to define objectives and performance goals of drilling programs.
• Engage in well planning and drilling performance discussions to identify opportunities and barriers.
• Support performance improvement through engineering analysis and analytics.
• Assist in deploying new technologies with rig automation teams.
• Contribute to new applications by integrating customer feedback with drilling practices.
• Recognize trends in real-time data to improve performance or mitigate hazards.
• Travel to field locations to support customer performance improvements.
• Monitor active drilling projects to seek value delivery opportunities.

Skills

Drilling practices

Down-hole tools

Directional drilling

Torque/drag analysis

Hydraulics

Data analytics

Well construction knowledge

Communication skills

Project management

Autonomous leadership

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering (Petroleum preferred)

Job description

Senior Drilling Engineer

Company: Precision Drilling

Location: Houston, Texas

Summary

The Senior Drilling Engineer supports our service offering by working closely with the Customer, Technology & Support Teams, Sales, Finance and Operations to gain a thorough understanding of the customer’s objectives and ensure Precision delivers high performance high value across U.S. operations.

Responsibilities

• Understand our customer’s drilling challenges and identify specific technologies to provide value focused solutions
• Work closely with our customers to understand objectives and performance goals of drilling programs
• Work closely with customers in well planning and drilling performance discussions to highlight opportunities and identify barriers to success
• Support customer performance improvement initiatives through engineering analysis and analytics
• Work closely with customer and rig automation team to support deployment of new technologies
• Support the development of new applications by integrating customer feedback with well construction and drilling engineering best practices
• Recognize trends in real-time data which relate to improvement opportunities or health of the well and the avoidance of drilling hazards
• Travel to field locations and meet with customers as required to support performance improvement efforts
• Monitor active drilling projects seeking opportunities to deliver value to our customers

Knowledge & Skills

• Advanced understanding of the fundamentals of drilling practices and procedures
• Advanced understanding of down-hole tools and technology
• Advanced understanding of directional drilling practices
• Advanced engineering analysis skills in torque/drag, drill string design, and hydraulics.
• 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
• Advanced understanding of data analytics tools and approaches.
• Intermediate understanding of all aspects of well construction process.
• Self-starter who can function in an autonomous leadership role.
• Ability and willingness to learn through practical on the job training (both office and field)
• Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills
• Strong project management skills
• Contribute to sustaining a positive, progressive, and supportive team environment
• Basic knowledge in database fundamentals considered an asset
• Ability to tell a story by drawing meaningful information from large datasets

Education & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, preferably in Petroleum Engineering however will consider others
• 10-15 years related experience working for a Houston-based E&P company
• Experience with data analytics and reporting is an asset