Rig Superintendent
Location: Azerbaijan Offshore
Contract Type: Full-time
What we offer:
- Turan Drilling & Engineering recognizes that managing talent is vital to achieving continued growth.
- We will manage career development to ensure that our employees have every opportunity to develop their skills and pursue ambitions. We promote a culture in which employees are encouraged to communicate openly and honestly on any issues, concerns, or suggestions they may have.
- If you are looking to boost your career in a business with excellent growth opportunities across the hydrocarbon and clean energy sectors, with an attractive market-rate salary on offer, contributory pension, benefits, and the opportunity to learn from great colleagues, then read on.
- The benefits of being a Turan Drilling & Engineering employee
- There are many benefits to working for Turan Drilling & Engineering, from our competitive salaries to our challenging and exciting working environments.
Key details about the role and the candidate:
- This offshore position involves overseeing all drilling, workover, and well intervention activities, ensuring they are executed safely, efficiently, and in line with company and regulatory standards.
- The Rig Superintendent will report to the Rig Manager and ensure any operations meet contractual performance criteria while maintaining high safety and quality standards.
You and the role:
- We seek an experienced Rig Superintendent with strong leadership, well control, and operational oversight skills, particularly with Cyber Rig experience.
- The ideal candidate has over 10 years of oil field experience, at least 5 years in a supervisory role, valid IWCF Supervisor's
- Level certification, and a proven ability to manage people, processes, and performance in offshore environments.
Primary responsibilities:
- Liaising closely with their Rig Manager on all key issues in a timely and appropriate manner.
- Supervise all drilling, workover (and/or concurrent well intervention where appropriate) and well maintenance activities, including the management of Company’s services contractors and support personnel, to ensure that all operations meet contractual quality and performance criteria.
- Ensure that all well programmes are executed properly, efficiently, safely and in accordance with Group, Client and
- Health & Safety Executive guidelines.
- Ensure that all Offset Well, Logging Data and specialist information is effectively utilised to optimise drilling operations.
- Conduct technical appraisals of drilling and workover programmes, ensuring that any improvements, concerns or remedial actions required, are brought to the attention of the Rig Manager.
- Provide advice and guidance to ARS and Drillers on all operational matters as may be required.
- Ensure that critical performance evaluations of specialist sub-contractors are conducted and findings reported to the Rig Manager.
- Ensure accurate recording and reporting of all problem events including accidents/incidents.
- Take an active role in pre-spud and end-of-well meetings, ensuring that complete reporting is undertaken and that all learning points are brought to the attention of the Rig Manager.
- Ensure that Rig requisitions are complete and sufficiently detailed to allow them to be processed without additional onshore input. Authorise requisitions at the appropriate level.
- Direct rig-up, rig-down, dismantling and moving of rig and auxiliary equipment, and supervise Drillers and drilling crews in setting up and operating equipment in a safe and efficient manner.
- Evaluate all work carried out to the requirements of the Permit-to-Work system, initiate and write Permits-to-Work as necessary and ensure that all safety precautions are taken and only work is carried out stated in the Permit-to-Work.
- Responsible for the supervision of personnel engaged in activities in their area of responsibility or for which they have been allocated responsibility by their supervisor.
- Responsible for the performance management of the personnel under their authority to ensure standards of behaviour and performance expected by the Group.
- Monitor, supervise and coach any Service company or Vendor company representatives that may be involved in the operations on the rig.
- Ensure control and well bore pressures within the operating limits of the equipment in use.
Experience:
- Minimum of 10 years' Oil Field experience; Cyber Rig Experience is essential.
- Minimum of 5 years’ experience in supervision of drilling rig and equipment, supervision of personnel.
Behaviour and Skills:
- Ability to work on own initiative and as part of a team.
- Excellent communication skills.
- Ability to coach and mentor others in order to share their knowledge, experience and facilitate learning amongst the crews.
- Systems and processes knowledge.
- People and quality management skills.
- Time Management skills.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Valid IWCF Well Control Supervisor's Level.
- Offshore Survival certificate.
- CA-EBS certificate desirable.
Application process:
If you meet the requirements and are interested in this role, please apply via the link in the Apply for job button. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.