Senior Digital Drilling Solutions Consultant
Role Overview
Support digital drilling, well engineering, and drilling performance initiatives for a major oil and gas operator.
The role combines drilling expertise with drilling applications, data management, well-planning workflows, and performance optimization.
Work with drilling, wells, operations, and digital technology teams to improve decisions, data quality, and operational efficiency across the well lifecycle.
Key Skills for This Role
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Role overview
Support digital drilling, well engineering, and drilling performance initiatives for a major oil and gas operator.
The role combines drilling expertise with drilling applications, data management, well-planning workflows, and performance optimization.
Work with drilling, wells, operations, and digital technology teams to improve decisions, data quality, and operational efficiency across the well lifecycle.
Key responsibilities
- Provide subject matter expertise for digital drilling and well engineering solutions.
- Support implementation, enhancement, and adoption of drilling and well-planning technologies.
- Improve planning, execution, and post-well analysis workflows with drilling teams.
- Support management, integration, and governance of drilling and well data.
- Analyze operational performance and identify optimization and efficiency opportunities.
- Collaborate with drilling, geology, subsurface, completions, IT, and software development teams.
- Translate business requirements into functional specifications and technical solutions.
- Support application configuration, deployments, testing, and user acceptance activities.
- Facilitate workshops, training, and stakeholder engagement.
- Contribute to digital transformation and operational excellence initiatives.
- Develop reports, dashboards, workflows, and recommendations for data-driven decisions.
- Support integration across drilling applications, databases, reporting platforms, and real-time data systems.
Required experience
- Bachelor's degree in Petroleum Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Software Engineering, Computer Science, or a related discipline.
- Minimum 8+ years of experience in the oil and gas industry.
- Strong understanding of drilling engineering and well construction workflows.
- Experience supporting drilling software platforms, digital drilling technologies, or well-planning solutions.
- Knowledge of drilling operational data, engineering calculations, and performance monitoring.
- Experience with ROP, WOB, torque, hookload, SPP, vibration, and drilling dysfunction indicators.
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills; ability to work across technical, operational, and business teams.
Preferred experience
- Experience with drilling engineering and well-planning applications, data management platforms, or data governance processes.
- Familiarity with digital well-planning workflows and engineering databases; drilling data integration and interoperability experience is preferred.
- Knowledge of WITSML and real-time drilling data systems is preferred.
- Drilling performance analysis, optimization, agile delivery, or requirements and technical-deliverable work with software teams is preferred.
- Previous field, rig-site, real-time operations centre, or drilling engineering experience is preferred.
- Exposure to cloud, analytics, AI, or digital oilfield technologies is advantageous.
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