Job Purpose
Analyse, plan, organize, and commercialize Cementing Products, based on the needs expressed by the product line, from inception (Research and Development) into implementation, commercialization, and training, continuing through product life cycles to optimize profit and meet marketing, financial and corporate growth objectives.
Roles & Responsibilities
QUALITY
- Responsible for being familiar with the Company's Quality policies and taking an active role in the compliance and improvement of Weatherford’s Management System
- Maintains service quality as an immediate priority when working across all areas of the business and continually seeks areas for improvement
OPERATIONS
- Define and direct specific product strategy by gathering input and business needs from customers and then creating a product-based solution to generate revenue and/or create value
- Direct any research and development projects or efforts required to create the products and/or services required as per above. Work with RD&E (Research, Development, and Engineering) on all ongoing sustaining efforts to progress Cementing Products service quality improvement initiatives forward
- Evaluates and prioritizes requests for new technology changes, enhancements, and new features; participates in product requirements through interviews with stakeholders, collaboration with product designers and other methods as needed
- Work with the Project Management and Engineering teams to implement feasible solutions that meet the timeline and budget of the stakeholders.
- Continually review progress through product life cycle to ensure attainment of objectives
- Responsible for ensuring publishing and distributing product improvement content including tech alerts, updated field procedures and work instructions
- Liaise with SMEs (Subject Matter Expert) in service lines to generate training materials and deployment plans for commercialization; responsible for effectively communicating product features, value propositions, and roadmaps
- Continually review progress through product life cycle to ensure attainment of objectives
- Analyse Repair & Maintenance data and work with RD&E to drive the improvements (including field trial) required for the effective reduction of cost/circulating hour
- Resolves conflicts between competing stakeholders by prioritizing requirements and products for development and commercialization; tracks project issues to completion, such as outstanding questions, decisions, or changes
- Creates clear and thorough acceptance criteria to ensure that the team understands when work is complete; participates in the retrospective
- Provide direct, high-level support to customers for critical new technology services
- Promote Weatherford’s new technology within the industry by drafting technical papers, attending industry conferences, contributing to the development of technical marketing material, making technical sales presentations to customers, and providing other technical support to sales and operations.
FINANCIAL
- All employees have an accountability to the organization to be financially responsible whether they are in charge of a function budget or simply their own expenses
- Costs incurred should be within the approved budget, processed within agreed time frames & following the relevant financial policy and procedure
Experience & Education
REQUIRED
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or Scientific discipline or equivalent experience
- 6+ years oilfield experience
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities
REQUIRED
- Strong organizational and communication skills
- Familiarity with reading, analysing, and interpreting common scientific and technical journals, financial reports, and legal documents
- Familiarity with mathematical operations such as frequency distributions, test reliability and validity, variance analysis, correlation techniques, and factor analysis.
- Skill in examining tenders, market conditions and operational requirements
- Demonstrated ability to effectively train and mentor personnel in classroom and field environments
- Complex problem-solving and analytical skills
- Work effectively across a diverse multicultural multilingual community
- The physical ability to immediately respond to emergency situations
- Proficient Microsoft Office and computer skills
