Senior Drilling Optimization Engineer

If you are an experienced Senior Drilling Optimization Engineer looking to enjoy work-life balance, then please read on…

Precision Drilling has an opening for a Senior Drilling Optimization Engineer, eager for fresh challenges and development toward potential future career growth as our business continues to innovate and grow.

Working for Precision Drilling means being immersed in a supportive culture that recognizes you as a strategic player in Precision Drilling’s future. We are a large company with a family feel, where you will collaborate with leadership and your colleagues across the organization.

Combined with a competitive remuneration package, you will enjoy the advantages of:

• Medical, dental, prescription drug, life insurance, Pension match, long-term disability coverage, a free fitness membership steps away from our offices and product discount programs.
• A casual work environment where you can expect to enjoy a work-life balance that promotes personal health, well-being, and family life!
• Personal development to grow your career with us based on your strengths and interests.
• Precision has a competitive vacation and PTO offering including afternoons off before a long weekend.

Summary

Precision's Alpha suite of technologies delivers exceptional value to our customers by reducing risks, time and overall well cost. Alpha drives performance through its core strength of integrating data insights, human ingenuity, automation consistency and smart algorithms to drill the best wells, every time.

The Senior Drilling Optimization Engineer supports Precision’s Alpha Technologies product line by working closely with the customer, Precision’s Alpha Remote Operating Center, Rig Automation Engineers, Sales and Operations teams to gain a thorough understanding of the customer’s objectives and ensure Precision delivers high performance high value across Canada and US operations.

This is a hands-on technical position with the responsibility to perform detailed engineering analysis. This position is responsible for the early detection of drilling hazards and the development of recommendations for optimizing drilling operations. Focusing on the entire well construction process to identify opportunities to increase operational efficiency through analysis of on-bottom and flat time operations activities by utilizing pre-determined event fingerprinting, data validation, and Well Engineering & Project Management best practices.

Responsibilities

Customer Interface

• Understand our customer’s drilling challenges and identify specific Alpha technologies to provide value focused solutions
• Work closely with our customer to determine objectives and performance goals of drilling programs
• In collaboration with our customer, develop and monitor Alpha performance road maps
• Monitor active drilling projects seeking opportunities to deliver value to our customers
• Support customer performance improvement initiatives
• Work closely with the customer and rig automation team to support deployment of new Applications
• Support the development of new applications by integrating customer feedback with well construction and drilling engineering best practices
• Support Precision Operations teams in Alpha new product roll-out

Operations

• Monitor real-time data throughout drilling operations for assigned rig lines
• Perform T&D modeling and analysis to develop recommendations.
• Learn and assist with recognizing trends in real-time data which relate to improvement opportunities or health of the well and the avoidance of drilling hazards
• Develop daily reports with remote operations center, which include essential measured data and descriptions on activities, trends, and recommendations for improvements
• Collect and apply drilling data to operations improvement (both real-time and recorded)
• Assist with and ensure PD essential personnel have access to real-time information or are informed in a timely manner of improvement opportunities or trends that suggest potential drilling hazards
• Assist field operations personnel with data analysis and decision-making in addition to assisting customers on the use of apps related to Rig Automation
• Provide support to operations as…