Senior Completions Engineer in Aberdeen

Our client is currently recruiting for the position of Senior Completions Engineer based in Aberdeen. This role has been released on a 5 month PAYE contract, working on our clients 2026 Wells P&A campaign.

Job Overview

Responsible for well abandonment design and ensuring the safe and efficient execution of decommissioning operations.

Accountabilities:

• Planning completion and intervention aspects for well abandonment projects.
• Ensures projects are planned in full compliance with corporate policies, standards, procedures and guidelines and relevant regulatory requirements and are executed safely and efficiently.
• Preparation of abandonment programmes.
• Participates in the operational support duty rota and provides operational cover as required.
• Applies appropriate techniques and processes to drive performance through benchmarking and data analysis.
• Demonstrates a challenging and innovative approach, to ensure cost-effective, safe and environmentally acceptable engineering solutions.
• Ensures appropriate peer reviews, risk assessments and assurance reviews are held for each well project with actions closed out accordingly.
• Interfaces effectively with other teams e.g. subsurface, projects, supply chain, finance to safely and successfully deliver the project.
• Contributes to the required time and cost estimates and performance tracking for each project phase.
• Supports the contractor management process by developing highly positive relationships with contractors and suppliers.
• Ensures contractor delivery against KPIs/scorecards.
• Responsible for the capture and close-out of lessons learnt and analysis of NPT events, and for the preparation and submission of end of well reports.

Competencies and Qualifications:

Competencies:

• Thorough understanding of completion installation operations and tooling.
• Delivery-focused.
• Strong HSE attitude and behaviours.
• Sound commercial awareness: project financing and cost control principles.
• Relationship-builder: internally and externally.
• Well-developed communication skills.
• Capable of working independently and as part of a team.

Work Experience:

• Considerable experience in a completion operations role.
• Experience of risk management techniques and processes.

Certifications:

• Fully certified by a recognised Well Control Authority e.g. Level 4 IWCF, WELLCAP.

If you feel that you are well suited to the above opportunity and would like to find out more then please contact Orion Group for more information or apply by forwarding your current CV quoting reference: TR/080813.

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