Job Details

Title:  Electrical, Instrumentation & Controls Technical Superintendent

Reporting To:  Electrical & Controls Manager

Location:  Houston


ABOUT SEADRILL

 
Seadrill is one of the world’s most modern offshore Deepwater drilling companies, employing some 2600 people around the world. Our vision is to Set the Standard in Drilling. It’s an ambitious goal. And every single one of us has a part to play. Help us to keep innovating, improving and maintaining the highest safety standards, and we’ll give you what you need to be your best too.

Diversity and inclusion are more than words for us. Everyone is welcome—as an inclusive workplace, our people are comfortable bringing their authentic whole selves to work. We continue to build an inclusive culture that encourages, supports, and celebrates the diverse voices of our people. It fuels our innovation and connects us closer to our customers and the communities we operate in.


JOB SUMMARY

 Overall responsibility is to ensure operational and maintenance standardization with drilling equipment across the Seadrill fleet. Provide support to operations, oversight for equipment overhauls, and consultation with vendors. Implement and update processes whereby the equipment within the responsibility complies with Seadrill internal requirements and international standards and requirements.


JOB SPECIFIC RESPONSIBILITIES

•  Act as Company Subject Matter Expert within the assigned product lines
• Manage distribution of vendor technical bulletins and provide recommendations on actions to take
• Issue and update standard jobs for product line within drilling equipment
• Issue corporate reports (Technical Reports, Technical Bulletins, Technical Proposals)
• Respond to rig technical issues and downtime events at any time and support recovery efforts.
• Liaise with vendors and review equipment reliability/upgrades
• Ensure best practices and lesson learned are shared from various rigs
• Review management of change cases, maintenance change requests, and improvement proposals from rigs
• Review and maintain the preventative maintenance tasks in the assigned areas of responsibility
• Pursue opportunities and support the development of condition monitoring and condition based maintenance for equipment in the assigned areas of responsibility
• Participate in technical audits across the fleet, as required
• Ensure Seadrill directives and procedures are reviewed and updated as required to stay in compliance with latest international standards and regulatory requirement
• Assist various rig and project management teams as required to develop and advise on proposed scopes of work in connection with SPS or other long term maintenance/upgrade projects
  
  

Responsible for/ensure:

• Follow up on rig downtime related to equipment within product line responsibility
• Feedback on equipment reliability issues in order to improve design with OEMs
• Maintenance tasks are adequate to support the reliability of the equipment
• Clear guidance is provided to the organization to maintain equipment within product line responsibility
  
  

Authority:

• Authors standard jobs and corporate standards
• Authors corporate reports (Technical Reports, Technical Bulletins, Technical Proposals)
• Address OEMs on behalf of the company to improve equipment reliability within product line responsibility
• Attend FAT’s on behalf of the company
• Provide relevant technical input to other function intra company.

SAFETY AT SEADRILL

Our goal is to ensure that ‘nobody gets hurt’ whilst performing their job. Everyone at Seadrill has a part to play in meeting our safety commitment.

Through strong leadership and personal responsibility from all employees, we take a systematic approach to identifying, managing and preventing the hazards involved in our day to day operations. Nothing is more important to us than the health, safety and security of our workforce and the communities in which we operate and behaving responsibly towards our shared environment. We are vigilant, disciplined and always looking out for one another. We have developed and embedded a strong safety culture onshore and offshore, fostered by all employees, who each have a personal responsibility and the authority to put an immediate stop to the job if they believe it to be unsafe. Everyone at Seadrill is accountable for helping to build this culture of care.


SEADRILL BEHAVIORAL FRAMEWORK
In Seadrill, setting the standard is not just about what we deliver, but how we deliver it.

We co-created our Behavioural Framework with our employees, where we identified four key competencies that define our culture and help us to live our values. Our behaviours are embedded in the way we work and support and guide us day to day:

• Drive & Ownership
• Change & Forward Thinking
• Communication & Collaboration
• Service Delivery

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

Essential

• 5 years minimum experience offshore in respective discipline at supervisory level is preferable. Other applicable areas of experience to be considered
• High level relevant technical knowledge
• Ability to liaise at high level with drilling units technical teams and unit management
• Has excellent understanding of equipment and systems within area of responsibility
• Fully acquainted with management systems and asset management systems similar to TMS/Maximo/Synergy
• Proficient at technical writing and communications using MS Office products

Desired

• Experience with installation and commissioning preferred.
  
  

EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS

Minimum Requirements

•  Bachelor’s degree in relevant engineering/technical field
• Flexible to travel offshore as required in any country Seadrill operates.

Preferred

• Demonstrated history of working effectively various offshore marine/subsea settings in the oilfield & energy industry.
  
  
  

JOIN SEADRILL

We value our people and want to retain them. So, we offer a competitive package built around an attractive base salary and a range of benefits tailored to your location.
Join Seadrill. Own the Opportunity.