DRILLING EXECUTION ENGINEER

Description

Job Summary: Drilling Execution Engineer to ensure optimal results in well design and execution, adhering to operational and safety standards. Key Responsibilities: 1. Ensure operational excellence in well drilling execution. 2. Lead the development and approval of final well programs. 3. Participate in risk analysis and continuous process improvement. **What Are We Looking For?** An Engineering professional to perform the role of Drilling Execution Engineer. **What Will Be Your Challenge?** Ensure optimal final results from the execution of planned well drilling design bases for each specific project, adopting best practices in final program design while coordinating all associated services, thereby contributing to operational excellence—respecting P\&WO standards as well as the Company’s established safety and environmental regulations. **What Will Be Your Main Tasks?** * Develop the final well program, including the operational sequence and time/cost estimates, respecting the design bases defined for each specific project—whether a TYPE well, a special project, or a technological pilot test defined by the Planning Engineer. * Approve the content of the final PDDP through the FOP generated by relevant disciplines at each process stage, verifying its sufficiency and coherence as a basis for developing the well program. * Request specific programs and validate technical proposals from service companies within the framework of procedures for the final well program—ensuring these do not modify the design bases established for the TYPE well. * Submit Change Management and Waiver requests identified during operations; participate in risk analysis development and formulation of mitigation and prevention actions as applicable. * Participate in risk analysis development and formulation of mitigation and prevention actions as appropriate, together with the operations team. * Attend pre-completion meetings (in NOC cases). * Organize and lead well kickoff meetings (Pre-Spud Meeting – PSM); and, if required, Drilling Well on Paper (DWOP) or Completion Well on Paper (CWOP) sessions. * Develop detailed programs for special projects, respecting the design bases defined by the Planning Engineer. * Provide technical and engineering support to operations. * Monitor daily progress of time and cost curves versus actual execution (Plan vs. Actual), managing deviations per the Well Work Flow Process (FOP). * Prepare final well reports (IFDP) and conduct corresponding deviation analyses, capturing lessons learned and associated improvement opportunities. * Jointly analyze and identify lessons learned, improvement opportunities, and best practices with the Planning Engineer for inclusion in the design base. * Participate in and prepare reports for quality deviation investigations, and participate in environmental matters when required. * Load well planning and AFE data into OW and ensure information is securely archived on the PWO disk. * Control data quality (OW, SharePoint, GIT). **What Do We Value?** * **Academic Background:** Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, preferably in a related discipline (Petroleum / Industrial / Mechanical / Electrical / Chemical, etc.) * **Professional Experience:** +5 years in Oil/Gas industry and +1 year in Non-Conventional reservoirs, with operator or drilling service companies. * **Computer Tools:** Office, Advanced Excel, DataAnalizer, Open Well, Power BI. * **Other Requirements:** Intermediate English. **Position Information** **Direct Reporting To:** Drilling Engineering Manager **Work Location:** Buenos Aires, YPF Tower **Work Schedule:** 4×1 (4 days in office, 1 day remote)