Lead Drilling Engineer

Do you have offshore Extended Reach Drilling experience with proven delivery? Are you interested in overseeing the upcoming drilling campaigns with one explo and two infill wells in Denmark? If yes to these questions, then this position at TotalEnergies Denmark in the Esbjerg office might be your next job!

Who we are looking for
It is important that you possess a safety mindset and address the job with a strong understanding of the business and people. Moreover, this position calls for good listening skills, communication skills and decision-making ability as well as the ability to manage risks in an effective manner. This is with the ability to influence and able to work independently and in cooperation with many different people from different departments and nationalities and therefore a quality conscious, service-minded and result driven approach and attitude is relevant. We are looking for a strong team player with the ability to build relationships and work constructively with others to achieve business goals.

Your background

• 10-15 years of experience from an operator within North Sea (or similar environment)
• Expert understanding well design software and SAP.
• Extended reach drilling experience with proven delivery
• Mastery in designing complex wells
• Mastery in Drilling Engineering Design softwares
• IWCF Level 4 or above qualified
• Mechanical or similar Engineering Degree
• Proficiency in oral and written English

Key Responsibilities
As a Lead Drilling Engineer in the Engineering & Operations team of the Drilling & Wells department, you will be responsible for overseeing the upcoming drilling campaigns with one explo and two infill wells in 2024. Your role will be to provide an optimum well design, plan, program, and support execution to deliver them safely and within schedule and budget. You will ensure accurate and timely reporting of activities and compliance with Total Company Rules, best industry standards, and regulatory requirements. Additionally, you will support the management and development of Well Site Engineers.

Overall, you have the responsibility of ensuring that operational risks are assessed and that necessary measures taken to mitigate operational risks and that contingencies have been evaluated and implemented.

In addition, these areas of responsibilities will include tasks such as:

• Drive HSE performance in accordance with TotalEnergies Group objectives, demonstrate HSE leadership, and promote a safety culture with the team and service providers.
• Ensure that health, safety, and environmental risks are assessed and necessary measures are taken to mitigate safety and health risks according to the ALARP (As Low As Reasonably Practical) principle.
• Deliver according to the SOR Well Delivery Process, ensure IOP updated, execute DWOP / readiness review, set-up reporting systems, SAP, and provide probabilistic time/cost estimation.
• Ensure regulatory permits are in place and followed, operational risks are assessed, and necessary measures are taken to mitigate operational risks, and contingencies have been evaluated and implemented.

Interested?
TotalEnergies is hiring for this vacant position in collaboration with Actief-Hartmanns. If you want to know more, please contact Erik Bernskov via email at [email protected] or at +45 4121 1329. We are conducting interviews on an ongoing basis.

TotalEnergies in Denmark
TotalEnergies is the largest oil and gas operator in Denmark. Our biggest partnership is the Danish Underground Consortium (DUC) where 85% of the oil and 97% of the gas export in the country stems from. This is an important contribution to Denmark’s economy, energy supply, and employment.

We are a diverse and multinational team of more than 1,600 people, of which approximately 500 work offshore. TotalEnergies’ Esbjerg facilities are the heart of our operational activities in the Danish North Sea, but nearly 250 of our employees work in Copenhagen.

TotalEnergies is a broad energy company that produces and markets energies on a global scale: oil and biofuels, natural gas and green gases, renewables, and electricity. Our 105,000 employees are committed to energy that is ever more affordable, clean, reliable, and accessible to as many people as possible.

Active in more than 130 countries, TotalEnergies puts sustainable development in all its dimensions at the heart of its projects and operations to contribute to the well-being of people.