Drilling Product Engineer

Job Summary:
Experience: Minimum 7 Years experience as Product Engineer
Education: Bachelor of Engineering or Geoscience
Product Engineer supports the Sales and Operations goals by providing technical support as requested to enable the segment to plan, design, execute and evaluate SLB products and services we provide to our Clients. A principal role of the Product Engineer is to ensure that our products are competitive and reliable in the market and that we understand the performance expectations and make up of that market. The Product Engineer should have the capability to design bit based on the inputs of the formation evaluation /offset wells/ Temp profile/UCS /geomechanics and other main inputs . The role is responsible for communicating the technical differentiation of our various drilling products and services over those of the competition in the field. The Product Engineer understands both the technology and its value and is a technical bridge between the client organization and the segment. The Product Engineer is the enabler and driver of new technology opportunities through solution-driven client and engineering engagement. The Product Engineer should provide flawless Service Quality and ensure compliance with all SLB Standards.

Essential Responsibilities and Duties:
Technical Sales Support:

Provides technical support to the sales organization and to clients.
Assist with Engineering prototype applications and New Technology (NT) market introductions
Drive New Technology (NT) sales and provides technical sales support for opportunities identified by front line sales team in the location.
Perform internal and external marketing activities such as technology presentations, lunch and learns, workshops, and technology launches.
Develop appropriate relationships with key senior technical personnel within the client’s organization by becoming a Technical Reference/Advisor.

Application Analysis and Sales Development:

Analyze, benchmarks and evaluates product performance to ensure a competitive position is maintained and initiates new or modified design requests to meet the operational goals of the geography
Assist with field based Applications Analysis (modeling & simulation) to enable Operations to effectively sell our Products and Services with a differentiable advantage.
Deliver Real-Time parameter monitoring as required to support execution.

Technical Leadership:

Create Technical Papers, Case Studies and capture Lessons Learned into InTouch based on the experiences of the GeoMarket or location.
Be active in Technical Society through publishing of technical papers, participating in SLB Drilling Symposia, participating in Industry events.
Contribute to the competency development of the Engineering Support group while mentoring and coaching less experienced engineers in the location.

Q&HSE:

Investigate unusual or unsatisfactory product performance to rapidly determine root cause and preventative action.
Participate in internal product quality reviews with Reliability, Engineering and Sustaining.
Communicate PQ Root Cause Analysis and preventative action outcomes to customers as requested by Sales.
Conduct audits and inspections as requested or scheduled.
Complies with all Company & Regulatory HS&E & Quality and IT standards and policies. Wears all Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) as required & maintains required HS&E & SQ certifications up-to-date.

Formal Job Training Covering the below Topics:

Technical Job Design & execution for retrievable and directional casing drilling
Technical Job Design & execution or non-directional casing drilling
Turbodrilling technical job design and execution for hard drilling rocks
Technical Bore Hole Enlargement for Job designing and troubleshooting
Technical Bore Hole Enlargement for operation and execution
Cross Training sales for Fishing and Remedial tools
Cross training sales for Wellbore departure and whipstocks tools
Cross Training sales for impact jars and shock subs
Cross Training sales for Bore hole enlargement
Drilling Bits Product development and Advanced Drilling Engineering

Behavior:

Relationship builder – Internally and with Clients
Strong verbal and written communicator
Team player
Innovative
Objective
Leader