Weatherford (NYSE: WFT) is one of the largest global providers of products and services that span the drilling, evaluation, completion, production and intervention cycles of oil and natural gas wells. Weatherford is a new breed of service company-one that can provide the industry with extended products and services, more efficient operations, more powerful research and development capabilities and greater geographic diversity.
Today’s Weatherford is the result of internal growth and innovation, as well as the consolidation of 250+ strategic acquisitions over the past 13 years. From a strategic standpoint, Weatherford has two key objectives-efficiency and productivity. Weatherford strives for efficiency, both in terms of delivering results for its clients as well as leveraging its worldwide infrastructure. The ultimate goal in both cases is to help reduce costs and increase well productivity. As well, Weatherford has created a more streamlined organizational structure to continue a push towards greater individual productivity levels through more intensive recruiting, training and retention.Job Purpose
Weatherford has a great opportunity for an experienced Operations Excellence Engineer Completions & Liner Hanger Systems – SSA to join the team in Port Harcourt, Nigeria.
The Operations Excellence Engineer Completions and Liner Hanger Systems – SSA should be an experienced Oil and Gas Services Industry expert, with an excellent Completions and Liner Hanger Systems acumen, having deep technical understanding and know how to support our team of operation engineers, quality department, sales department and more.
The position will form the corner stone for ensuring Operational Excellence for Completion and Liner Hanger applications across Sub-Sahara Africa.
Responsibilities
Implement and sustain precise, up-to-date processes that ensure operational excellence and foster client satisfaction.
Establish and maintain standardized processes and systems throughout Completion segment product lines to enhance quality and streamline operations.
Regularly explore technology-driven solutions, including AI, to optimize processes and improve overall efficiency.
Maintain continuous technical support availability for all Completion segment staff to enable seamless operations.
Work closely with training and development function to maintain programs that develop exceptional multi-skilled field engineers and build a strong pipeline of future product line leaders.
Work in alignment with Quality to incorporate learnings into operational processes and drive consistent communication across all segment teams.
Engage with the Completion community on an ongoing basis to capture insights and act on operational challenges across international locations.
Leverage DDS, quarterly technical lessons-learned forums, AI etc. to embed best practices and significantly lower service quality incidents.
Deliver consistent MyAdvisor support globally, implementing standardized practices across segment product lines while driving initiatives to shorten S&R cycles and eliminate process variances.
Be familiar with the Company’s Quality policies and takes an active role in the compliance and improvement of Weatherford’s Management System.
Maintains service quality as immediate priorities when working across all areas of the business and continually seeks areas for improvement.
Drive investigations from location (NCR / CPAR).
Support operations on technical troubleshooting related with hardware/software/procedural management of change.
Serve as a link between the quality organization, operation and GBL Service Delivery Managers.
Ensure AccuView, OneSync, MyAdvisor, WISE and VSES process adhered to and actively used.
Take an active role in pre-job and post-job meetings. Drive process and procedure adherence across entire operation and activities. Review and feedback to process/procedure owner with improvement suggestions.
Maintains effective communications with all key stakeholders both internal and where appropriate external.
Provide technical support and input to new process, procedure and system improvements.
All employees have an accountability to the organization to be financially responsible whether they are in charge of a function budget or simply their own expenses.
Costs incurred should be within approved budget, processed within agreed time frames and following the relevant financial policy and procedure. Identify process and procedure improvement/efficiency opportunities.
Employees have a responsibility for developing their own careers within the Company including completing all necessary function, compliance and business standards training to enhance their knowledge, skills and experience.
Employees should engage on a regular basis with their line manager to discuss their personal performance, objectives and opportunities to enhance their skills and experience to support their career potential.
Support the development of local competency in cooperation with Operation Manager and Operation Supervisor through competence development programs, courses, presentations, and conferences.
Arrange lessons learned meetings internally to share learnings.
Actively engage with employees to support talent management through Weatherford’s performance management process, including but not limited to talent assessments, succession planning and regular coaching opportunities.
Collaborate with Human Resources and Training Development to drive strategies for the recruitment and retention of key personnel and to foster an environment that supports the attraction and retention of a high performing talented workforce.
Demonstrates leadership, ethical behavior and adherence to Weatherford standards at all times.
Share knowledge, foster collaboration and team attitude, and maintain open communication.
Requirements
Bachelors, preferably master’s degree in science and technology.
10 years of Completions, Liner Hanger Systems and Well Construction experience.
Quality and service delivery experience.
Well versed in Microsoft Office, Word, Excel, Power Point, Visio etc.
Experience with XaitPorter and Salesforce is desirable.