Job Summary
The Senior Completions Engineer is responsible for designing, planning, and executing well completion strategies to optimize production and reservoir performance. This role involves implementing completion technologies, improving hydraulic fracturing designs, and well stimulation techniques while ensuring safe operations and cost efficiencies. The completion engineers collaborate with drilling, reservoir, production, and subsurface technical teams to enhance well performance with timely execution. Key responsibilities include evaluating new technologies, troubleshoot operation challenges with field teams to minimize downtime, and ensuring compliance with state, federal, and company policies and regulations.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Develop and implement completion designs and procedures that maximize well productivity while ensuring safe and efficient execution of stimulation operations.
- Plan and optimize completion strategies for development and exploration, ensuring optimal recovery and operational efficiency.
- Oversee the daily execution of completion operations, ensuring adherence to schedules, budgets, and company safety policies and best practices.
- Collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams, including drilling, production, and reservoir engineers, to optimize well performance and ensure seamless integration of completion operations.
- Analyze and troubleshoot operational issues in the field, working with field leaders to implement effective solutions and minimize downtime.
- Prepare and review Authorization for Expenditures (AFEs), manage capital expenditures, and track well costs to ensure projects stay within budget.
- Ensure all completion activities comply with state, federal, and company policies, regulations, and industry standards.
- Take an active role to promote and enforce a Continental’s strong safety culture by integrating safety best practices into all aspects of completion operations.
- Lead change management initiatives by adapting to evolving operational requirements and incorporating new technologies, procedures, and industry best practices.
- Continuously evaluate and implement improvements to completion techniques, aiming to enhance well performance, reduce operational problems, and increase overall efficiency.
- Monitor and analyze operational data, providing accurate and timely reports on well performance, completion operations, and expenditures.
- Provide technical guidance to early career engineers and field teams, offering mentorship and support to ensure high standards of team performance and safety.
- Continuously evaluate emerging technologies and industry trends, applying innovative solutions to optimize well completions and enhance overall operational performance.
- Other duties as assigned.
Skills and Competencies
- Demonstrates strong mathematical, analytical, and problem-solving skills with proactive mindset towards challenges.
- Ensures Accountability – Holding self and others accountable to meet commitments.
- Manages Complexity – Making sense of complex, high quantity, and sometimes contradictory information to effectively solve problems.
- Collaborates - Building partnerships and working collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives.
- Demonstrates self-awareness - Using a combination of feedback and reflection to gain productive insight into personal strengths and weaknesses.
- Action oriented - Taking on new opportunities and tough challenges with a sense of urgency, high energy, and enthusiasm.
- Nimble learning - Actively learning through experimentation when tackling new problems, using both successes and failures as learning fodder.
- Self-development - Actively seeking new ways to grow and be challenged using both formal and informal development channels.
- Situational adaptability - Adapting approach and demeanor in real time to match the shifting demands of different situations.
- Communicates effectively - Developing and delivering multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor of Science in Petroleum, Mechanical, or Chemical Engineering from an accredited college or university.
- Minimum of five (five) years of experience with all facets of completion operations, modern stimulation techniques, subsurface technical knowledge, and solving complex petro-technical problems.
- Ability and willingness to drive and/or travel for extended periods of time.
- Adaptability to work various schedules in a dynamic environment to accommodate field rotations and remote locations.
- An acceptable pre-employment background and drug test.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience designing, planning, and overseeing completion operations across multiple shale basins.
- Strong knowledge of drillout operations and related equipment, including snubbing, coiled tubing, workover rigs, wireline tools, and associated field practices.
- Technical expertise in completion design, hydraulic fracturing design and operations, well control, and production optimization.
- Familiarity with cementing practices, including primary cement design, evaluation, and remedial cementing operations.
- Ability to analyze operational data, interpret results, and draw actionable conclusions.
- Knowledge of cased-hole logging, tubular corrosion, materials selection, coatings, and hydraulic fracturing chemicals.
- Proven ability to collaborate effectively with multidisciplinary teams across drilling, completions, production, reservoir, and field operations.
Physical Requirements and Working Conditions
- Requires prolonged sitting, some bending and stooping.
- Occasional lifting up to 25 pounds.
- Manual dexterity sufficient to operate a computer keyboard and calculator
Continental Resources, Inc. provides equal employment opportunities and access for all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any other category protected by law.
