Title:
CWI Senior Engineer
Position Details
- Position Title: CWI Senior Engineer
- Department: Wells
- Location: Majnoon Oil Field – Basra, Iraq
- Reports to: CWI Engineering Team Lead
- Direct Reports: None
1. Role Purpose
Provide engineering expertise in the planning, design, and execution support of completions, workover, well intervention and well integrity operations. Ensure high-quality engineering input, technical assurance, well integrity compliance, and continuous performance improvement across CWI operations.
2. Key Responsibilities
HSSE & Well Integrity
- Champion a proactive safety culture with Zero Harm.
- Conduct site safety visits, audits, and toolbox talk reviews.
- Ensure compliance with well integrity standards such as NORSOK D‑010
- Ensure engineering designs comply with HSSE policies, Life-Saving Rules, and well integrity guidelines.
- Participate in risk assessments, HAZID, HAZOP, and technical assurance reviews.
- Support incident investigations by providing technical analysis and recommendations.
Program Development & Technical Assurance
- Prepare and review Completion Programs, Workover Programs, and Intervention Procedures.
- Develop well schematics, tool string designs, barrier philosophies, and risk assessments.
- Ensure engineering designs comply with well integrity standards and operational requirements.
- Perform technical evaluations for new technologies, equipment, and intervention methods.
Operational Support & Problem Solving
- Provide real-time engineering support to wellsite supervisors during operations.
- Analyze operational challenges and propose technical solutions.
- Perform pre-job and post-job reviews to ensure procedural compliance.
- Support SIMOPS planning and coordination with Production, Subsurface, and Drilling teams.
Cost & Schedule Control
- Support development of budgets, forecasts, and AFE inputs.
- Monitor job efficiency, performance, and operational KPIs.
- Identify cost‑saving opportunities without compromising safety or quality.
Contractor & Performance Management
- Lead technical interface with service companies and contractors.
- Evaluate technical proposals, equipment specifications, and new technologies.
- Support tendering, technical evaluations, scopes of work, and contract management.
- Monitor service quality and ensure alignment with engineering requirements.
Reporting & Governance
- Review technical proposals from service companies and ensure alignment with operational requirements.
- Participate in contractor performance reviews and technical evaluations.
- Ensure QA/QC compliance for equipment and tools used in rigless operations.
3. Qualifications & Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in Petroleum, Mechanical, or related Engineering discipline.
- 8-12+ years of experience in completions, well intervention, workover, and well integrity engineering disciplines.
- Valid IWCF Level 4 Well Intervention Pressure Control certification.
- Strong experience leading CWI engineering teams in high‑activity onshore fields.
- Comprehensive understanding of well integrity standards (e.g., NORSOK D‑010), well control, and barrier management.
- Strong knowledge of international standards (API, ISO, IOGP) and regulatory compliance requirements.
- Expertise in completion, CT, slickline, e-line, ESP, stimulation, and workover engineering.
- Experience in Iraq/Majnoon preferred.
- Fluency in English; Arabic is an advantage.
4. Core Competencies
- CWI Technical Mastery
- Well Integrity & Risk Management
- Engineering & HSSE Leadership
- Performance Management & Continuous Improvement
- Cross‑Functional Collaboration
- Contractor & Stakeholder Management
- Communication & Technical Reporting
