JOB DESCRIPTION
DOCUMENT NUMBER: D001217226
TITLE: S&E.RDEENG.PROF.V
POSITION TITLE: Principal Engineer
POSITION CATEGORY: R&D Engineering
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Job Purpose
To develop business opportunities and ensure that products and services meet the required quality standards, by designing and developing new, or modification of existing, products to meet actual or anticipated future customer needs.
The position is one of the main points of contact for the Product Development / Product Line Groups and Customer Services team who determine the product requirements, as well as Manufacturing and their support team for making the products in line with the design parameters determined by Engineering. The role is measured by the successful leading of assigned engineering projects, and accurate interpretation of product specification into effective designs/drawings that can be used to manufacture the products against time and quality requirements.
Roles & Responsibilities
SAFETY, SECURITY & COMPLIANCE
- Maintains the highest standards of corporate governance, ensuring that all activities are carried out ethically and in compliance with Company's Security, Compliance & HSE policies, Management System, relevant laws, regulations, standards, and industry practices and complies with the Company's Rules to Live By
- Places Quality, Health & Safety, Security and protection of the Environment as core values while never intentionally placing employees, our processes, customers or the communities in which we live and work at risk
- Seeks continual improvement in Health, Safety, Security & protection of the Environment, taking into account responsible care, process vulnerabilities, public, customer and employee inputs, knowledge and technology and best business practices to exceed customer expectations
- Supervisors & Managers should demonstrate effective safety leadership for the health and safety arrangements of all subordinates and for any persons visiting them while on the Company premises
QUALITY
- Responsible for being familiar with the Company's Quality policies and takes an active role in the compliance and improvement of Weatherford's Management System
- Maintains service quality as immediate priorities when working across all areas of the business and continually seeks areas for improvement
OPERATIONS
- Working knowledge of Cementation - (pouring, float shoes, baffle collars, etc).
- Exposure to Cementation products and operations.
- Performs fundamental engineering tasks within the established Product Development Process. These tasks include but are not limited to: Strength of material problems
- Stress analysis
- Complex torque
- Tension
- Burst
- Collapse
- Compression
- Complexed statics and dynamics
- Material selection
- Cost estimation
- Tolerance studies
- Modify existing products to meet internal or external customer requirements.
- Creates new engineering layouts for fit, form and function checking.
- Prepares calculations and design packages as required to complete design reviews.
- Prepares, checks and or directs the preparation of detailed drawings and layouts.
- Coordinates the manufacture of prototypes.
- Develops experimental test programs.
- Builds test tools and test fixtures in the test lab.
- Conducts experimental test programs.
- Analyses test data to determine if the product meets predetermined technical specifications.
- Participates in and understands the analysis of failures.
- Prevents or eliminates defects in new or existing products.
- Demonstrates an understanding of fundamental design tools such as threaded connections, seals, plated surfaces, heat treating, etc.
- Conducts the analysis of failures and makes recommendations.
- Performs advanced engineering tasks such as fluid dynamics, vibrations, etc
- Creates performance envelopes that show the limits of the tool to the customer.
- Coordinates all activities associated with technical developments, scheduling, budgeting, and resolving engineering design and test problems.
- Proactively develops and communicates design guidelines for the department.
COMMUNICATION
- Maintains effective communications with all key stakeholders both internal and where appropriate external
- Supervisors & Managers should clearly communicate expectations, roles and responsibilities to their reports
FINANCIAL
- All employees have an accountability to the organisation to be financially responsible whether they are in charge of a function budget or simply their own expenses
- Costs incurred should be within approved budget, processed within agreed time frames & following the relevant financial policy and procedure
PEOPLE & DEVELOPMENT
- Employees have a responsibility for developing their own careers within the Company including completing all necessary function, compliance & business standards training to enhance their knowledge, skills and experience
- Employees should engage on a regular basis with their line manager to discuss their personal performance, objectives and opportunities to enhance their skills and experience to support their career potential
- Supervisors are expected to actively engaging their employees to support talent management through Weatherford's performance management process, including but not limited to talent assessments, succession planning & regular coaching opportunities
- Supervisors should collaborate with Human Resources & Training Development to drive strategies for the recruitment & retention of key personal & to foster an environment that supports the attraction & retention of a high performing talented workforce
VISION & LEADERSHIP
- Demonstrates leadership, ethical behaviour and adherence to Weatherford standards at all times
Experience & Education
Required
- Bachelor's Degree in mechanical engineering – with 6 years oilfield related experience.
Preferred
- Passed the Fundamentals of Engineering Exam (FE).
- Member of professional society such as the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) or the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME Equivalent).
- Masters Degree in Mechanical Engineering – with 4 years Oilfield related experience.
Required
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities
- At least six (6) years of experience as a professional engineer or equivalent graduate level education.
- Independent engineer capable of pursuing the necessary information needed to make a decision and then make that decision, even when the information collected is less than complete.
- Microsoft office suite
- Proven technical problem-solving ability.
- Willingness to learn new skills.
Preferred
- Working knowledge of downhole Oilfield tools with exposure to Cementation products as well as Rubber and Elastomer products.
- Creo/Pro-E, FEA/CFD design and detail
- Working knowledge of API 10F / 11D1 / ISO14310 / API 19LH as well other API specifications
- At least (8) eight years of mechanical design in downhole oilfield tools with exposure to Cementation products as well as Rubber and elastomer products.
Travel Requirement: This role may require domestic and potentially international travel of up to: <10%
Job Description Scope
This job description's purpose is to offer some details on the scope and depth of the role and its interaction with other roles with the organisation, through a focus on key criteria. It cannot capture the entire scope of the role. The document is generic in nature and offers consistency in role content from the early career level to more senior levels. The Company's expectation is that the holder of the role understands and accepts that its expectations will be potentially greater from those in more senior roles than those at an early stage of their career. Responsibilities may well be greater and their decisions will have greater impact on the function and organisations performance. The Company reserves the right to amend the content of the job description to better reflect the changing scope of the role with or without notice.
HUMAN RESOURCES ADMINISTRATION
CAREER PATH LEVEL
EXECUTIVE I - V
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Holds management accountability for a business, division, major geography, corporate function or major corporate sub-function. Develops, establishes & approves long terms strategy for the area managed
MANAGEMENT I – V
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Achieves goals through the work of others. Responsibilities inc; performance management, merit review, training & development. Focus is on managing others and applying operational or strategic management skills
PROFESSIONAL I - VII Level V
Applies a theoretical knowledge-base to work in order to achieve goals through own work. Characterised by specific functional expertise, typically gained through formal education. May provide guidance to others using technical expertise
TECHNICAL I – V
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Performs technical work, often in support of professional roles. Requires vocational training or the equivalent experience. Performs duties according to established procedures
SUPPORT I – V
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Performs clerical or administrative work, requires vocational training or the equivalent experience and performs duties according to established procedures
OPERATIONS I – V
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Performs operational, craft or manual tasks. Typically requires vocational training, apprenticeship or equivalent experience. Performs task according to established procedures.
GEOZONE ADDENDUMS
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