Drilling Superintendent at Sellafield Energy

Key Responsibilities:

• Communicate effectively with the Drilling Supervisor and Drilling Engineer to ensure that all technical specifications of the Drilling Program and Drilling Manual are met.
• Encourage an atmosphere of teamwork among the drilling staff, rig site personnel, service providers and other disciplines.
• Conduct meetings through the term of the contracts, with service providers, to increase the efficiency of the service and help reduce or eliminate anypotential problems.
• Provide technical trouble shooting when problems occur on the drilling rig.
• Perform periodic evaluations for the Drilling Supervisors, Drilling Engineers and Drilling Technicians.
• Monitor drilling expenditures on a daily basis with the goal of drilling the most cost effective wells possible.
• Review equipment planning with Drilling Engineer, Drilling Supervisors and the Material & Logistics Coordinator to ensure timely equipmentarrivals and to eliminate equipment overstocking.
• Coordinate with the Drilling Engineer, Material & Logistics Coordinator & Drilling supervisors the timely arrival of drilling equipment and serviceson wellsite.
• Ensure that wells are drilled and completed in a manner that meets the objectives of the Reservoir, Production, and Geological departments.
• Encourage and support HSE training and implementation of new procedures and guidelines. Attend the bi-weekly safety meeting in the field.
• Prepare monthly drilling operations reports
• Technical review of all drilling programs and final well reports.
• Perform wellsite inspections to ensure that safety programs are conducted and monitored by the drilling contractors in a manner consistent with HSEpolicies in conjunction with the Senior Drilling Supervisors’ site specific HSE plan.
• Liaise with Construction personnel to ensure that well platforms are constructed to specifications, in a time and cost effective manner.
• Liase with subsurface geology and production teams

Key Requirements:

• Experience as a Drilling Superintendent for 7 or more years with a major oil company. 
• Have extensive industry training and a valid well control certification. 
• Have detailed and hands on experience drilling directional wells along with a detailed understanding of directional drilling techniques and equipment. 
• Have detailed understanding of drill bits, drilling motors and the relation of the drilling rig circulating system to these tools. 
• Have detailed understanding and hands on experience with various weighted and non-weighted mud systems. Experience with oil based mud and water based mud. 
• Be familiar with cost reporting and cost verification as it pertains to approval of company expenditures. 
• Have demonstrated the ability to manage multiple drilling rigs at one time in a safe and cost effective manner. 
• Understand and demonstrate leadership in all aspects of managing a HSE compliant operation without sacrificing operational efficiency.