Senior Project Engineer - Well Completions
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Role Overview
Lead the design, development, qualification, and optimization of well completion products within the Oil & Gas industry.
Drive product innovation, reliability improvements, and engineering excellence while meeting API, ISO, customer, and internal standards.
Provide technical leadership across product development and collaborate with global cross-functional teams.
Work on advanced downhole technologies, complex engineering projects, and engineering-team mentorship.
Key Skills for This Role
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Job Overview
Lead the design, development, qualification, and optimization of well completion products within the Oil & Gas industry.
Drive product innovation, reliability improvements, and engineering excellence while meeting API, ISO, customer, and internal standards.
Provide technical leadership across product development and collaborate with global cross-functional teams.
Work on advanced downhole technologies, complex engineering projects, and engineering-team mentorship.
Responsibilities
- Lead design, development, qualification, and optimization of packers, completion tools, and downhole equipment.
- Manage product development from concept through qualification, validation, commercialization, and field deployment.
- Perform advanced calculations, FEA, stress analysis, fatigue analysis, and performance validation.
- Resolve structural integrity, sealing, pressure containment, and reliability challenges.
- Conduct root cause analysis, reliability studies, failure investigations, and design improvements.
- Lead feasibility studies, risk assessments, FMEA, and cost-benefit analyses.
- Ensure compliance with API, ISO, customer specifications, and internal engineering standards.
- Collaborate with manufacturing, supply chain, quality, operations, and HSE teams.
- Maintain qualification reports, design guidelines, engineering documentation, and change records.
- Mentor engineering teams and provide technical leadership.
- Support field operations and customer-facing teams with technical troubleshooting.
- Champion HSE, quality, and continuous improvement initiatives.
Skills
- Well Completion Products and Downhole Tool design.
- Mechanical design and new product development.
- Finite Element Analysis, stress analysis, and fatigue analysis.
- Failure analysis, reliability engineering, and FMEA.
- Product qualification, testing, and validation.
- API and ISO standards knowledge.
- CAD software and engineering analysis tools.
- Project management, cross-functional collaboration, technical leadership, and mentoring.
- Analytical, problem-solving, communication, and decision-making skills.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering or a related discipline.
- Master's degree is preferred.
- 10+ years of mechanical engineering and product development experience.
- Extensive experience with well completion products and downhole tools.
- Strong understanding of API, ISO, and Oil & Gas industry standards.
- Experience leading complex engineering projects and technical teams.
- Proficiency in CAD, FEA, and engineering analysis software.
About Us
Weatherford is a global energy services company supporting customers across manufacturing, research and development, service, and training operations.
The company develops technology and digital solutions for energy operations and the energy transition.
Weatherford emphasizes safety, operational efficiency, integrated solutions, and a diverse global workforce.
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