# Drilling Engineer

**Company**: Bp
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: entry|mid|senior|staff|executive
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Energy

**Apply**: https://careers.bp.com/job-description/RQ107498
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## Description

About us

Our purpose is to bring together people, energy and markets to power and navigate a changing world.

We are seeking a Drilling Engineer to plan and deliver safe, efficient and compliant well operations across our Trinidad & Tobago portfolio. The role spans front-end design through execution and close-out, working in a multidisciplinary environment to optimize value, mitigate risk, and uphold the highest standards of well integrity and operational excellence.

## Key accountabilities

- Develop drilling programs, basis of design, and well barrier schematics; select casing, mud, and BOP configurations aligned with standards and local laws.

- Lead well start-up activities including rig/vessel intake, assurance verifications, and operational risk assessments; ensure procedures, permits, and contingencies are in place.

- Provide real-time engineering oversight during drilling, completions, and interventions; solve operational issues and implement performance improvements.

- Track KPIs (NPT, ILT, OPEX/CAPEX), benchmark performance, and drive continuous improvement, learning capture, and application to subsequent wells.

- Maintain robust well barrier envelopes; steward well control procedures, drills, and reporting; ensure compliance with well integrity management requirements.

- Identify critical risks and barriers; execute risk mitigation plans; lead and document Management of Change for technical and operational variations.

- Collaborate with PSCM and suppliers on scopes of work, execution plans, and service quality; participate in performance evaluations and after-action learning.

- Ensure alignment to company practices and applicable legislation; prepare regulatory submissions, exemptions, and notifications as required.

- Deliver high-quality end-of-well reports, well files, and lessons learned; contribute to audits, verifications, and technical peer reviews.

- Champion a strong safety culture, intervene on unsafe conditions, and role-model Life-Saving Rules and operational discipline.

## Essential experience & technical capability

- Significant experience as a Drilling Engineer in upstream oil & gas, including offshore operations.

- Proficiency in well design, casing design & load cases, hydraulics, BHAs, bits, torque & drag, pore/fracture pressure modeling, and geomechanics application.

- Proven involvement in rig/vessel intake, startup, and supervised execution of drilling operations (e.g., platform, jack-up and/or floating units).

- Practical experience supporting or integrating completion and intervention scopes, including wellhead/x-mas tree systems and tubular handling.

- Deep familiarity with well control principles, barrier philosophy, and incident response.

- Track record of reducing NPT/ILT and improving cost and cycle time through data-driven performance optimization.

- Solid understanding of industry software for well engineering (e.g., hydraulics, anti-collision, torque & drag, trajectory design) and digital reporting systems.

- Strong command of relevant industry standards and regulatory frameworks in offshore drilling.

## Desirable / differentiators

- Subsea well experience (design or operations) in addition to platform/jack-up environments.

- Side-track planning and execution exposure.

- Supplier performance management and integrated services coordination.

- Multi-operator or JV experience and effective partner/stakeholder engagement.

## Education & certifications

- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in Petroleum, Mechanical, or related Engineering discipline (or equivalent).

- Well Control certification (IWCF or IADC) at Supervisor level (or obtained within agreed timeframe).

- Valid offshore medical and survival certifications (or ability to obtain).

## Success profile (what good looks like)

- Makes risk-based decisions; never compromises on barrier health or well control.

- Anticipates problems, proposes pragmatic contingencies, and acts decisively under pressure.

- Communicates clearly with subsurface, operations, HSE, logistics, and suppliers; builds trust on the rig and onshore.

- Uses data and learning loops to drive measurable performance gains well-to-well.

- Takes end-to-end responsibility for scope, quality of engineering deliverables, and execution outcomes.

## Working pattern & travel

- Office-based with offshore trips as required for well start-ups, critical operations, and audits; occasional travel to supplier or partner sites.

## Equal opportunity statement

We are an equal opportunities employer.

## Skills

### Required
- Drilling programs
- Well design
- Casing design & load cases
- Hydraulics
- BHAs
- Bits
- Torque & drag
- Pore/fracture pressure modeling
- Geomechanics application
- Well control principles
- Barrier philosophy
- Incident response
- Industry software for well engineering
- Digital reporting systems
- Relevant industry standards and regulatory frameworks in offshore drilling