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Wells Advisor III
About this role
The role is for a Wells Advisor III with Scruples Resources in Lagos. It targets a late-career or expert-level professional with strong drilling, well and construction operations experience, who can mentor engineers and lead drilling program oversight. The position combines technical capability with communication, facilitation and interpersonal skills, and involves advising on well planning, design and operational surveillance to ensure safe and efficient drilling and completion. The advisor serves as a resource to mentor the broader organisation and interface with multiple units on logistics, environmental, regulatory, procurement and cost stewardship. Duties include mentoring less-experienced engineers, leading performance improvement initiatives, overseeing drilling programs across rig lines, and supporting commissioning and system integration efforts.
What you would do
- Mentor and interface with less-experienced drilling and completion engineers.
- Oversee drilling programs and ensure consistency across multiple rig lines.
- Interface with Affiliate / Business Unit on logistics, environmental, regulatory, procurement and cost stewardship activities.
- Develop and lead longer-term team performance improvement initiatives and engineering studies.
- Make continuous efforts to improve efficiencies in drilling and completion operations.
- Participate in vendor clarifications, FATs and package acceptance.
- Review and respond to specification deviation requests.
- Review drawings and specifications.
- Address human factors engineering and safety of personnel and equipment (with Topsides and/or O&M contractor).
- Assist in development and review of commissioning and System Integration Test procedures.
What they are asking for
- Degree in an engineering discipline (mechanical or civil preferred).
- Advanced analytical and computing skills.
- Experience in construction site management, preferably familiar with drilling well site design.
- Adaptability to changing priorities.
- Extensive experience in drilling rig development including FEED, detail design, construction and commissioning.
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
- Ability to organise and progress own work schedule.
- Experience working within multi-disciplined teams with multiple stakeholders.
- Familiarity with industry codes (API, ASME, ANSI, SAE, ASTM, ABS, DNV, SOLAS, IMO).
- Knowledge of offshore oil and gas regulations.
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