Position details

Department: Wells
Location: Majnoon Oil Field – Basra, Iraq
Reports to: CWI Engineering Team Lead
Direct reports: None

1. Role purpose

Provide engineering expertise in the planning, design, and execution support of completions, workover, well intervention and well integrity operations. Ensure high-quality engineering input, technical assurance, well integrity compliance, and continuous performance improvement across CWI operations.

2. Key responsibilities

HSSE & well integrity

• Champion a proactive safety culture with zero harm.
• Conduct site safety visits, audits, and toolbox talk reviews.
• Ensure compliance with well integrity standards such as NORSOK D-010.
• Ensure engineering designs comply with HSSE policies, life-saving rules, and well integrity guidelines.
• Participate in risk assessments, HAZID, HAZOP, and technical assurance reviews.
• Support incident investigations by providing technical analysis and recommendations.

Program development & technical assurance

• Prepare and review completion programs, workover programs, and intervention procedures.
• Develop well schematics, tool string designs, barrier philosophies, and risk assessments.
• Ensure engineering designs comply with well integrity standards and operational requirements.
• Perform technical evaluations for new technologies, equipment, and intervention methods.

Operational support & problem solving

• Provide real-time engineering support to wellsite supervisors during operations.
• Analyze operational challenges and propose technical solutions.
• Perform pre-job and post-job reviews to ensure procedural compliance.
• Support SIMOPS planning and coordination with production, subsurface, and drilling teams.

Cost & schedule control

• Support development of budgets, forecasts, and AFE inputs.
• Monitor job efficiency, performance, and operational KPIs.
• Identify cost-saving opportunities without compromising safety or quality.

Contractor & performance management

• Lead technical interface with service companies and contractors.
• Evaluate technical proposals, equipment specifications, and new technologies.
• Support tendering, technical evaluations, scopes of work, and contract management.
• Monitor service quality and ensure alignment with engineering requirements.

Reporting & governance

• Review technical proposals from service companies and ensure alignment with operational requirements.
• Participate in contractor performance reviews and technical evaluations.
• Ensure QA/QC compliance for equipment and tools used in rigless operations.

3. Qualifications & experience

• Bachelor’s degree in petroleum, mechanical, or related engineering discipline.
• 8-12+ years of experience in completions, well intervention, workover, and well integrity engineering disciplines.
• Valid IWCF Level 4 Well Intervention Pressure Control certification.
• Strong experience leading CWI engineering teams in high-activity onshore fields.
• Comprehensive understanding of well integrity standards (e.g., NORSOK D-010), well control, and barrier management.
• Strong knowledge of international standards (API, ISO, IOGP) and regulatory compliance requirements.
• Expertise in completion, CT, slickline, e-line, ESP, stimulation, and workover engineering.
• Experience in Iraq/Majnoon preferred.
• Fluency in English; Arabic is an advantage.

4. Core competencies

• CWI technical mastery
• Well integrity & risk management
• Engineering & HSSE leadership
• Performance management & continuous improvement
• Cross-functional collaboration
• Contractor & stakeholder management
• Communication & technical reporting