Wellsite Performance Engineer
TR/079522
Posted: 15/10/2025
- PAYE Rate Negotiable
- Scotland, Aberdeen City, Aberdeen
- Contract
Our client is currently recruiting for the position of Wellsite Performance Engineer, based Offshore on a 3/3 rotation.
Responsibilities:
Experience & Qualifications:
Essential:
Preferred:
Contract position
If you feel that you are well suited to the above opportunity and would like to find out more then please contact Orion Group for more information or apply by forwarding your current CV quoting reference: TR/079522.
Our role in supporting diversity and inclusion
As an international workforce business, we are committed to sourcing personnel that reflects the diversity and values of our client base but also that of Orion Group. We welcome the wide range of experiences and viewpoints that potential workers bring to our business and our clients, including those based on nationality, gender, culture, educational and professional backgrounds, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, disability, and age differences, job classification and religion. In our inclusive workplace, regardless of your employment status as staff or contract, everyone is assured the right of equitable, fair and respectful treatment.
Responsibilities:
- Assists and deputises for Drilling Supervisor in managing rig operations. Assists with preparation morning reports, cement calculations and other documents and spreadsheets as required.
- Participates in the compilation of daily work instructions and action plans for operations and logistics.
- Ensures familiarity with the well objectives and the detailed Abandonment programme. Gives careful consideration to upcoming requirements for personnel, bulks, and tools.
- Assists the Logistics Co-Ordinator by compiling daily operations lookaheads.
- Performs visual checks of all rental tools and tangibles arriving on the rig to ensure that the correct items have been received in the correct quantity and in satisfactory quality (as can be determined from a visual check).
- Ensures records of dimensions are kept for all rental equipment run in hole.
- Maintains electronic model of the wellbore to cross-check observed versus calculated torque, drag and hydraulics.
- Maintains hard copy and electronic well files to meet the requirements of the Well Examination scheme, ensures timely dispatch of such records to the office-based Operations Engineer for archiving.
- Optimises logistics versus changing downhole work scope.
- Participates in the rig safety management system including safety behavioural programme, risk assessments, pre-tour meetings, toolbox talks and safety meetings.
- Monitor and analyze real-time data during abandonment operations to identify performance trends and inefficiencies.
- Records lessons learned by analyzing performance and comparing the observed result against the plan to provide learning for the organization for future operations
- Conduct Pre-job reviews and after-action reviews for each work instruction and ensure all lessons are captured and fed back into programmes, SOP and work instructions as required.
- Develop and implement strategies to enhance wellsite performance, reduce non-productive time (NPT), and improve overall operational outcomes.
- Collaborate with onshore engineers, rig crews, service providers, and other stakeholders to ensure alignment on performance goals.
- Conduct post-well reviews and performance benchmarking across rigs and assets.
- Support the deployment of digital tools and technologies for performance tracking and reporting.
- Provide technical input during planning phases to optimize abandonment programmes and execution strategies.
- Prepare detailed performance reports and present weekly performance meetings.
- Proactively identifies future operations requirements, considers risks and possible outcomes, and generates contingency programmes to manage uncertainties.
- Supports rig teams with technical and planning work to help resolve problems and execute rig operations safely, efficiently and cost effectively.
- Creates reports for company and the legislative bodies by compiling operations information and performance analysis to provide an as-installed record of events and well components.
- Assists in close-out non-conformance reports.
- Prepares section summaries and key learnings for inclusion in the End-of-well report and compiles the End of Well Report.
- Complies with, and assists team members to comply with, the company Management System, particularly the procedures and Guidance Documents relevant to Operations.
- Makes recommendations for improvements to the Management System and ensures that effective controls are maintained for drilling engineering and operations.
Experience & Qualifications:
Essential:
- Degree in a technical / engineering discipline
- Offshore Survival Training Certificate, UK Medical and MIST
- Previous experience in offshore rig roles
- Completion of technical training programme applicable to role
- Proven relationship-builder – internally and externally
Preferred:
- Fully certified by a recognised Well Control Authority for drilling activities e.g., IWCF, WELLCAP to Subsea Supervisor level.
Contract position
If you feel that you are well suited to the above opportunity and would like to find out more then please contact Orion Group for more information or apply by forwarding your current CV quoting reference: TR/079522.
Our role in supporting diversity and inclusion
As an international workforce business, we are committed to sourcing personnel that reflects the diversity and values of our client base but also that of Orion Group. We welcome the wide range of experiences and viewpoints that potential workers bring to our business and our clients, including those based on nationality, gender, culture, educational and professional backgrounds, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, disability, and age differences, job classification and religion. In our inclusive workplace, regardless of your employment status as staff or contract, everyone is assured the right of equitable, fair and respectful treatment.
Emma Smart
Senior Recruitment Consultant
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