Drilling Manager

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Date: Sep 30, 2024

Location(s): Houston, TX, US, 77002

Company: NextEra Energy

Requisition ID:  82994 

 

Trinity Operating, LLC is an independent oil and natural gas company engaged in the exploration, development and production of oil and natural gas from onshore properties within the U.S. Headquartered in Houston, Texas, we are a subsidiary of NextEra Energy, the world’s largest generator of renewable energy from the wind and sun. Our focus is to maintain high operations of explorations in Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Texas. Are you interested in delivering clean-burning natural gas to customers? Join our world-class team today!   

 

Position Specific Description

This position will be the drilling leader responsible for managing the drilling engineering and field drilling operations in Eagleford, Akorma Woodford, and Haynesville, ensuring both safe and efficient delivery of wells to the completions team.  The drilling manager will be accountable for all budgeting, forecasting, and financial reporting of drilling costs on a monthly and annual basis. The successful candidate will be required to manage and lead vendors to achieve safe and efficient operations and comply with corporate HSE policies.


Preferred Qualifications

  • Field experience working as a field drilling engineer or well site leader on a drilling rig.  
  • 7-10 years of drilling engineering experience with a demonstrated track record of performance improvement in the areas of cost, drilling efficiency, and HSE.
  • Ability to review and revise drilling programs and best practices.
  • Proven ability to build and maintain cost forecasting system used for annual budgeting and monthly forecasting processes.
  • Extended reach drilling (ERD) experience with laterals up to 20,000’ preferred.
  • Casing design experience for high temperature/high pressure and ERD wells using Stress Check or WellCat.
  • Drilling string design and hydraulics modeling experience desirable.  
  • Drilling engineering experience in the Haynesville, Eagleford, Arkoma Woodford, and Permian preferred.
     

Job Overview

This job is responsible for managing all aspects of drilling and completion operations. Leaders in this role manage, schedule, and safely execute drilling and completion operations to ensure the efficient growth of the Company. The successful candidate achieves drilling and completions capital and schedule targets in the safest possible manner.

Job Duties & Responsibilities

  • Directs and manages annual drilling and well completions capital budget
  • Plans, schedules, engineers, and executes all drilling and completion activities
  • Manages all drilling and completions well planning and engineering activities
  • Provides accurate and timely well cost estimates and AFE’s (authority for expenses)
  • Manages vendor and selection process for all drilling and completions services
  • Develops and maintains an accurate drilling schedule for drilling and completion operations and ensure that it is communicated throughout the asset
  • Ensures all operations have the ability to effectively discharge their well control responsibilities when required
  • Performs other job-related duties as assigned

Required Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s - Engineering
  • Experience: 8+ years
  • Supervisor/Management Experience: 2+ years

Preferred Qualifications

  • None

 

NextEra Energy offers a wide range of benefits to support our employees and their eligible family members. Click here to learn more.

 

Employee Group:  Exempt
Employee Type:  Full Time
Job Category:  Engineering
Organization:  Trinity Operating (USG), LLC 
Relocation Provided:  Yes, if applicable

 

NextEra Energy is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to race, color, age, national origin, religion, marital status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetics, disability, protected veteran status or any other basis prohibited by law. We are committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace.

 

NextEra Energy provides reasonable accommodation in its application and selection process for qualified individuals, including accommodations related to compliance with conditional job offer requirements, consistent with federal, state, and local laws. Supporting medical or religious documentation will be required where applicable and permitted by applicable law. To request a reasonable accommodation, please send an e-mail to recruiting-coordinator.sharedmailbox@nexteraenergy.com, providing your name, telephone number and the best time for us to reach you. Alternatively, you may call 1-844-694-4748. Please do not use this line to inquire about your application status.

 

NextEra Energy will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information.

 

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