Job Description
Title: Supervisor, Drilling
Job Summary:
The Supervisor, Drilling Engineering for Anschutz Exploration Corp (AEC) is responsible for supervising all drilling operations company wide. This position will include acting as a lead for less experienced drilling engineers, providing mentoring and coaching to develop and improve their technical and operational abilities. This position will include direct oversight & management of 1-3 drilling rigs with the expectation of safe, continuous improvement, reducing drilling durations and well costs. This position will report to the Drilling Manager.
Major Responsibilities:
- Reviews and approves designs and procedures for drilling new wells, including directional planning, casing selection, drilling fluids, BHA and cement design, rig specifications, etc.
- Supervises all phases of the drilling operations to ensure accuracy, adherence to state and Federal requirements, proper documentation, post drilling technical reviews, lessons learned, etc.
- Ensures tracking and visibility to organization of performance vs offset / historical wells.
- Supervisor of all drilling field staff & less experienced drilling engineers ensuring adherence to drilling program, proper daily reporting, and data entry.
- Functional lead working with the asset teams to support planning/permitting and development needs. (Development & Exploration)
- Provide leadership and oversight for cost estimating and budgeting (AFE Generation and Review)
- Reviews post-analysis of drilling processes for benchmarking, and knowledge to improve the process for future wells.
- Champion Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) for the team, ensuring the adherence to all AEC policies.
- Drive and lead interaction with the regulatory groups to ensure proper drilling & post-drilling reporting.
- Provide relief coverage for the Drilling Manager/Superintendent as needed.
Qualifications and Capabilities:
- 12+ years of related industry experience
- Bachelor’s degree in a strongly mathematical, engineering, or physics-oriented subject
- Experience in fast paced unconventional Development Drilling Program
- Experience in multiple unconventional basins.
- Must have relevant operational field experience (DSM, Superintendent, Field Engineer, etc)
- Track record that exhibits continuous drilling improvement (well durations & capital cost reductions)
- Current and up to date software capability using office and collaborative applications.
- Excellent written and spoken communication skills required.
- Ability to work alone under own initiative, or in close collaboration with geoscientists, production engineers, completions engineers and other reservoir engineers as part of a team.
- Ability to perform analysis, interpretation and problem solving at all levels of complexity with varying volumes of data.
- Ability to work in and travel to AEC asset areas; position will require significant time in the field in the onboarding process and to Project Manage
Salary Range: $210,000 to $250,000 depending on experience.
Job Tags
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