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Airswift is searching for a Drilling Operations Engineer to join a leading oil and gas operation based in Villahermosa, Tabasco, Mexico. The successful candidate will be responsible for the design, planning, and execution of drilling, completion, workover, and well intervention projects, ensuring safe, efficient, and cost-effective operations.
Job Responsibility
Participate in the development and review of drilling engineering designs, including well trajectories, drilling fluids, casing programs, directional drilling, and completion programs
Develop, review, and optimize drilling, completion, and well intervention programs for development, exploration, and workover wells
Coordinate with multidisciplinary teams, contractors, and service providers to ensure operational readiness and successful project execution
Lead operational planning activities, pre-job meetings, and technical reviews
Ensure compliance with well integrity requirements, HSE standards, and applicable regulatory frameworks
Monitor drilling and well intervention performance, identify improvement opportunities, and implement operational best practices
Coordinate logistics, materials, personnel, equipment, and third-party services throughout project execution
Prepare operational reports, lessons learned, incident investigations, root cause analyses, and final well reports
Requirements
Bachelor's Degree in Petroleum Engineering
Minimum 10 years of experience as a Drilling Engineer with a major or independent oil and gas operator
Advanced English communication skills
Strong knowledge of well design and construction, well control, well integrity, casing and completion design, drilling and completion fluids, directional drilling, cementing, formation evaluation, hydraulics, solids control, fishing operations, and well intervention activities
Experience using specialized well design and drilling engineering software
Project management and leadership experience
Nice to have
Offshore and/or onshore drilling operations
HPHT (High Pressure High Temperature) wells
Extended Reach Drilling (ERD)
Deep wells, salt dome and subsalt drilling environments
Lost circulation challenges and complex drilling operations
Major and minor workover and well maintenance projects