Job Description
Job Description
Senior Drilling Engineer
Salary: $162,000 – 200,000
Location: Houston, TX (Hybrid schedule)
Join our client, a leading and growing O&G company, as a Senior Drilling Engineer, supporting safe, efficient, and cost-effective well delivery. The ideal candidate brings deep technical expertise in drilling engineering, strong leadership skills, and a proven ability to manage complex projects and mentor others.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead well design, planning, and execution to ensure safety, compliance, and performance objectives are met.
- Identify and mitigate well control and process safety risks throughout drilling operations.
- Oversee permitting, regulatory compliance, and adherence to company and industry standards.
- Manage crisis and emergency response planning and execution.
- Provide engineering oversight on casing design, cementing, and wellhead recovery.
- Supervise managed pressure drilling, drilling fluids, and equipment assurance processes.
- Ensure cost management, accurate budgeting, and cost-conscious decision-making.
- Coach and mentor junior engineers while promoting teamwork and continuous improvement.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering (Petroleum, Mechanical, or related field).
- Minimum 10 years of upstream well construction and drilling experience.
- Expertise in HPHT, deepwater, and managed pressure drilling operations.
- Strong understanding of Gulf of America regulatory requirements.
- Proven leadership in mentoring, risk management, and process safety.
- Skilled in well planning, cost control, and management of change.
- Effective communicator with cross-functional collaboration experience.
- Able to travel up to 25%.
- Ability to manage complex projects under tight timelines.
- Must live in or near Houston, TX
Technical Expertise
- Casing and wellhead recovery, casing design, and cementing.
- Drilling operations, drillstring component selection, and equipment integrity.
- Drilling data acquisition, real-time monitoring, and well performance optimization.
- Rig operations, vessel intake/start-up, and rig workovers.
- Managed pressure drilling and geohazard/PPFG principles.
- Risk management, HAZOP, and process safety management.
- Multi-lateral wells, side-track operations, snubbing, and hydraulic workover.
- Common process for wells’ activities and compliance with OMS and company standards.
Company DescriptionThis role allows you to take full ownership of the accounting operations for multiple growing businesses while helping influence financial strategy and systems. It’s an ideal opportunity for someone who wants meaningful impact, a wide scope of responsibility, and a flexible work environment.