Entity:

Production & Operations

Job Family Group:

Wells Group

Job Description:

Sub-Discipline: Engineering

Specialism: Engineering – Senior Drilling Engineer

Primary Reporting: Wells Discipline Lead

Role Synopsis

The Senior Drilling Engineer (SDE) will be responsible for engineering activities to efficiently design, plan, and support execution of wells in Brazil in accordance with all local laws and conforming to all bp practices. The SDE will need to work with a multi-disciplinary and international team to ensure safe delivery of all business objectives for the wells. This will include, but is not limited to, addressing safety and/or operational risks, progressing engineering work and procedures through assurance steps, providing engineering support to the Wells Superintendent (WSUP), and supporting less experienced staff with coaching and mentoring.

Essential Role Requirements

Experience: Significant drilling engineering experience, prefer sufficient experience in deepwater with an operator. Experience working within, and preferably supervising, multi-disciplinary teams.

Qualifications: Excellent communication skills with the ability to communicate at all levels to efficiently project handle multi-disciplinary scopes of work.

Valid Well Control Certificate (WellSharp or IWCF)

BOSIET or HUET training for locations that require helicopter for transit to the Wellsite.

Education: Bachelor in an Engineering field or higher.

Fluent in English. Fluent in Portuguese.

Key Accountabilities & Responsibilities

In this role the SDE will:

• Provide engineering experience and expertise needed for well design, well planning, and preparation of wells programs that safely and compliantly conform to well objectives, leading these activities through the vital assurance. Examples may include tubular design, cementing and fluids design, well placement design, AFE preparation, risk register management, equipment readiness, program readiness, etc.
• Support the WSUP and Operations Team before and during the execution of well by delivering high level drilling engineering leadership, support, and assurance.
• Provides leadership for the day-to-day management of Drilling operations and is accountable to support aspects of performance (HSSE, People Agenda and Financial Delivery), from planning to implementation and assurance.
• Continually reviews drilling operations performance, identifying and sharing lessons learned and leading continuous improvement in performance and process optimisation, in alignment with the function's practices and policies
• Proactively identifies and shares global and local takeaways through close collaborative relationships with key internal partners and develops themes/trends from issues and incidents, whilst ensuring related lessons are assembled and codified into standards and technical practices.
• Identify, mitigate, document, and properly convey wells safety risks to key partners successfully. This may include HAZOPs, Risk Assessments, MOCs, etc.
• Provide engineering expertise to support key interested parties in Subsurface, Projects, Finance, Vendors, and the Regional collaborators.
• Role model the bp Who We Are framework through work with a large, diverse, multi-functional team, promoting inclusion and growing capability in self and others.
• Ensures personal and team compliance with the BP's Code of Conduct and demonstrates a personal commitment to safety and exemplary leadership of BP's Who We Are framework.
• Coaches and develops others to improve their leadership capability, enhance delivery of business objectives and create a performance culture.

Key Competencies

• Core: Personal & Process Safety, Procedures and Practices, OMS, Risk Assessment and Management.
• Discipline Specific: Life of Well Design, Equipment Integrity Assurance, Well Integrity, Well Control, Well Performance, Tubular Handling & Installation, Cementing, Wellhead and Tree Installation, Directional Drilling and Surveying techniques.

Development & Training

• Provide support and coaching as needed to ensure the safe and efficient planning/execution of activities.
• Mentor and supervise the development of less experienced engineering staff.

Leadership and Behavioural Traits

• Proactively lives BP values, including Code of Conduct

• Informed Judgment: Uses good practice and sound judgment to deliver safe and driven wells. Knows when to call out appropriate issues or request help. Focus on life-of-well reliability – a key outcome of well construction.

• Commitment and Engagement: Shows personal commitment to delivering the plan, focused on Continuous Improvement
• Systematic Management: Progresses planning and operational excellence through systematic application of OMS
• Leadership Presence: Demonstrates courage to safely handle risk
• Accountability: Verifying expectations and accountabilities for safety compliance and performance are clear, accepted and delivered
• Standout Colleague: Interfaces and enables others to realize their fullest potential
• Safety Leader: Serves as a role model for others
• Good Communication Skills: Able to connect with individuals of a diverse set of backgrounds, education and social status

Key Relationships

The Senior Drilling Engineer will be part of the P&O Wells Team Organization working for the Regions Group (Brazil). The SDE will collaborate with the Discipline Lead (alternatively called Engineering Team Lead) and work closely with other members of the engineering team for Brazil. The SDE will also need to cultivate relationships with the Operations Team, contractors and well service personnel in the office/field. Other key relationships include well planning service providers, PSCM/Logistics for supplies and personnel, the Exploration/New Well Delivery team, Completions Engineering, Well Test Team, Interventions, and Integrity teams. The current drilling engineering team is based out of Houston and London. Other key collaborators in Houston are a large part of the Brazilian subsurface team and some members of the finance, logistics, and procurement teams. The Wells Operations team is based out of Rio de Janeiro (Rio). Also based in Rio are the majority of the finance, procurement, and logistics teams, and key operational subsurface roles.

Desirable Criteria & Qualifications:

• Experience constructing exploration/appraisal/development wells in Brasil
• Significant drilling engineering experience, prefer sufficient experience in deepwater with an operator.

At bp, we recognise and support our people to learn and grow in a diverse and exciting environment. We believe that our team is strengthened by diversity. Bp is committed to encouraging an inclusive environment in which everyone is respected and treated fairly. There are many aspects of our employees’ lives that are relevant, so we offer benefits to enable your work to fit with your life!

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

Travel Requirement

Up to 25% travel should be expected with this role

Relocation Assistance:

This role is eligible for relocation within country

Remote Type:

This position is a hybrid of office/remote working

Skills:

Casing and wellhead recovery, Casing and wellhead recovery, Casing Design, Cementing, Common process for wells activities, Completions and Interventions Fluids, Control of Work, Cost Management, Directional Drilling, Drilling, Drilling data acquisition and well monitoring, Drilling Operations, Drillstring component selection, Electric-line, Equipment integrity assurance, Managed Pressure Drilling, Management of change, monitoring and maintenance, OMS and bp requirements, PPFG and geohazard principles for wells, Process Safety Management, Rig and vessel intake and start-up, Rig and vessel operations, Rig workovers, Risk Management {+ 14 more}

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