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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.

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