Job Title: Completion Applications Engineer
Job ID: R169544
Location: Lagos, Nigeria
Job type: Full-time (Onsite)
Category: Services
Description
Partner with the best:
- The successful candidate will be the technical focal point for upper and lower completion applications, responsible for developing fit-for-purpose completion solutions, supporting field execution, and driving technical excellence throughout the project lifecycle.
- This role requires extensive experience in completion design, packers, safety valves, tubing stress analysis, sand control, and Open Hole Gravel Pack (OHGP) applications.
- The candidate must be capable of working directly with customers, field operations, product line teams, and global engineering organizations to deliver safe, reliable, and cost-effective completion systems.
Responsibilities
As an Application Engineer, you will be responsible for:
- Leading the design and application engineering of upper and lower completion systems for offshore and onshore projects.
- Developing optimized completion architectures based on reservoir, wellbore, and operational requirements.
- Selecting and specify completion equipment including production packers, retrievable and permanent packers, SCSSVs, gas lift systems, flow control devices, sliding sleeves, landing nipples, seal assemblies, and intelligent completion components.
- Providing technical ownership of OHGP and sand control applications, including screen selection, gravel pack design, and execution support.
- Performing detailed engineering analysis including tubing stress, burst, collapse, tension, compression, buckling, thermal effects, packer load calculations, and seal movement evaluations.
- Utilizing engineering software such as WellCat and other completion design tools to validate completion designs and operating envelopes.
- Reviewing customer requirements and recommend technically compliant and commercially optimized solutions.
- Supporting tenders, technical proposals, and customer presentations.
- Participating in design reviews, risk assessments and lessons learned workshops.
- Providing operational support during equipment preparation, installation, commissioning, and well start-up activities.
- Troubleshooting field issues and lead technical investigations, failure analyses, and corrective action recommendations.
- Acting as the primary technical interface between the customer, operations teams, manufacturing facilities, and global engineering resources.
- Mentor junior engineers and support competency development within the organization.
Requirements
To be successful in this role you will:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Petroleum Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related engineering discipline.
- Minimum of 12 years of completion engineering experience with strong exposure to both upper and lower completions.
- Proven experience with:
- Production Packers
- SCSSV Systems
- Intelligent Completions
- Gas Lift Systems
- Sand Control Technologies
- Open Hole Gravel Pack (OHGP) Applications
- Deepwater and offshore completion systems
- Tubing Stress Analysis Software
- Demonstrated experience supporting major operator projects and customer-facing engineering activities.
- Excellent understanding of well integrity, completion reliability, and field execution best practices.
- Experience supporting multidisciplinary project teams in complex drilling and completion environments.
- Have excellent customer engagement and communication skills.
- Proven ability to lead technical discussions and influence customer decision-making.
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving capabilities.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced project environment.
- Results-oriented mindset with a strong focus on execution and operational excellence.
Application Closing Date
Not Specified.
Interested and qualified candidates should:
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