D&C Engineering Manager

Country

Canada

Location

Calgary

Employment Type

Employee

Requisition Number

CAN02707

Closing date

Nov

Company Overview

Welcome to CNOOC International. We are a global energy company and subsidiary of CNOOC Limited with a vision of delivering safe, sustainable energy for all.

CNOOC International, the international division of CNOOC Limited, is a global energy company with operations in Asia, Africa, the Americas, the Middle East and Europe. Our successful growth as an upstream oil and gas producer has been achieved by consistently finding and developing world-class assets.

Our business is focused on safely exploring and producing from conventional offshore, unconventional and oil sands assets. As part of the CNOOC Group of companies, which span the entire energy supply chain, our size and capability create a competitive advantage that ensures we deliver long-term value.

In Canada, CNOOC International has oil sands assets in Long Lake, located in northern Alberta just south of Fort McMurray, which is a SAGD and partial Upgrader operation with production capacity of 85,000 barrels of bitumen a day. We also have interest in several other oil sands projects, including Hangingstone, operated by Greenfire Resources Operating Corporation and Syncrude's oil sands mining upgrading facility. In addition to our oil sands business, we have shale gas land in Northeast British Columbia, a power station in Balzac, Alberta, and interest in a wind farm in southern Alberta. Calgary is our regional corporate office for all North America.

CNOOC and You

Your career at CNOOC is about moving forward – learning new skills, broadening experiences, and making meaningful contributions. From personal career development that enables you to fulfill your potential, to employee programs that help you make the most of work life balance.

We encourage and promote work-life balance by allowing you to participate in our Compressed Work Schedule (CWS) that will give you two Fridays off per month and flexible work hours.

In exchange for your dedicated work is a total rewards package that not only recognizes your contribution but also provides for your family. We offer competitive Company-paid benefits that support your mental, physical and financial well-being Including an annual Wellness Account, a generous paramedical allowance, and access to a team of Virtual Health Care professionals to guide you to the right medical resource. Save for your future by participating in our Pension plan and join our Savings Plan with Company-matching. We encourage you to further step up for your community by giving you two paid volunteer days, volunteer rewards and sports grants to support causes you are passionate about.

Bold ideas, diverse perspectives, and the determination to fuel our success are what set us apart. Therefore, we are seeking a Drilling & Completions Engineering Manager to join our growing team in Calgary, Alberta. This dynamic role will be instrumental in defining and executing the drilling and completions technology roadmap, implementing performance measurement frameworks, driving continuous improvement initiatives, and ensuring the efficient, safe, and cost-effective delivery of well programs in partnership with COSL and other stakeholders.

Your Background

• Bachelor's degree (required) in Petroleum Engineering, Mechanical/Chemical Engineering or equivalent. Master's degree preferred.
• Professional engineering designation preferred (e.g., P.Eng, PE).
• Typically years of progressive experience in drilling and completions engineering, operations or technology roles in the oil sand companies.
• Strong experience managing drilling and completions operations, technology deployments, data/analytics platforms, performance improvement programmes.
• Proven track record of implementing technology solutions in drilling/completions context (digital tools, real-time monitoring, analytics) and delivering measurable performance improvements.
• Excellent leadership, communication and stakeholder management skills; ability to engage both engineering/operations and digital/technology teams.
• Strong analytical mindset with ability to interpret well- and rig-data, derive insights, drive changes.
• Experience with budget management, cost-control, vendor management, contracts in drilling/completions environment.
• Familiarity with regulatory, HSE and operational requirements in drilling/completions.
• Willingness and ability to travel frequently to field locations, rigs, pads, will be required.

Key Competencies

• Strategic Thinking & Planning: ability to define technology roadmap and link to business objectives.
• Technical & Operational Acumen: deep understanding of drilling and completions engineering and operational risk/performance.
• Data & Analytics Orientation: skilled in performance metrics, dashboards, root cause analysis, benchmarking.
• Change Leadership & Innovation: able to champion new ways of working, tools, processes and drive adoption.
• Leadership & People Development: build and lead multidisciplinary teams, mentor and develop talent.
• Collaboration & Communication: effective at connecting across engineering, operations, digital/IT, vendor ecosystem.
• Financial & Business Acumen: able to build cost-benefit cases, manage budgets, track returns on investment.
• Safety & Risk Focus: embed HSE compliance, operational discipline and risk mitigation into technology/performance agenda.

Success Metrics / KPIs

• Reduction in drilling/completion cycle time (days / well) vs. baseline.
• Reduction in cost per well or cost per meter (or cost per foot) of drilled/completed well.
• Improvement in wells meeting performance targets (e.g., completion success, first-production rates).
• Reduction in non-productive time (NPT), downtime events, and operational incidents.
• Adoption rate of new technologies/tools and measurable value capture (ROI).
• Quality and timeliness of performance reporting and analytics insights delivered to leadership.
• Number of performance improvement initiatives implemented and sustained across assets.
• Positive feedback from field operations and engineering teams on tool usability and process improvement.

Your Role with Our Team
Technical/Functional

• Provide technical and operational support for major drilling/completions campaigns: review and optimise designs (wellbore architecture, casing/tubing, cementing, completions strategy), support field execution teams in performance improvement.
• Define the drilling & completions technology strategy and roadmap: assess existing capabilities, identify gaps, prioritize technology investments (digital tools, automation, real-time monitoring, advanced drilling/completion technologies).
• Partner with the Digital/Technology team and engineering to evaluate, select and deploy technology solutions (off-the-shelf, custom developed, or partner/vendor led).
• Lead the rollout of technology initiatives into field operations: pilot programmes, change management, training, standardization of workflows/tools.
• Establish governance around technology adoption: cost-benefit business cases, real-time performance monitoring, vendor management.
• Participate in and/or set up TAR, Peer Assists, Peer Reviews, and DWOP/CWOP meetings.
• Design and analyze optimal SAGD well pairs including hole size, liner design, tubulars, instrumentation, wellhead design and artificial lift through the well life cycle: from startup, circulation, conversion to SAGD operations, wind-down, and ultimately abandonment.

Performance Management & Analytics

• Develop and implement performance measurement frameworks (KPIs, dashboards, benchmarks) for drilling/completions operations: e.g., days / well, cost / well, non-productive time (NPT), success / failure rates, cycle times, vendor performance, equipment performance.
• Lead data-driven analysis of well operations: lookbacks/reviews, root cause analysis of variances, lessons learned, performance gaps and improvement opportunities.
• Collaborate with drilling/completions engineering and field operations to define targets for upcoming campaigns and monitor actual vs. plan.
• Lead performance reporting to leadership: deliver insights on technology impact, performance trends, cost savings, reliability improvement, risk reduction.

HSE/Regulatory

• Strive to create a safe workplace, protecting people, environment, CPNA business assets, and reputation by ensuring tools and procedures are in place, followed and verified.
• Understand Health, Safety, Environment principles, regulatory requirements, and their applications to the construction of fit-for-purpose oil and gas wells.
• Ensure full regulatory compliance to all CPNA & AER standards, documents, and requirements.
• Actively participate or lead HIRA/HAZID sessions.

Process Safety Management (PSM)

• Identify the need for change within a D&C program, operation or contract system and initiate the MOC process for any deviations.
• Ensure the accuracy of daily drilling and completion reports and ensure accuracy of reported information which constitutes process safety information (PSI)

Leadership & Collaboration

• Build, lead and develop a high-performing team combining engineering, operations, analytics and technology skill sets.
• Represent CPNA within the SAGD industry by participation in committees and conferences. Act as a vendor liaison on technical issues.
• Coach and mentor team members and field stakeholders; encourage knowledge-sharing, standardizations of best-practices and cross-asset learning

Business & Financial

• Prepare technical scopes and contribute to commercial evaluation of contracts.
• Work with the Asset team to develop and steward yearly budgets. Complete OPEX accruals and outlooks on a monthly basis.
• Assist with project cost estimates and delivery time and engage in discussion with stakeholders.

Your Career Development

The opportunities are limitless when you join our team. Our employees are encouraged to drive their development, enhancing their career through experiences, exposure, and education. A mentoring program, on-demand e-Learning courses, and formal training opportunities are all ways in which CNOOC International supports your career growth.

Closing Statement

All positions require background checks which could include:

• Criminal police record check
• Education verification
• Credential verification

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