Production engineering Technical Trainer

<b> Overview </b><br><br>Weatherford is a leading global energy services company. Our world-class experts partner with customers to optimize their resources and realize the full potential of their assets. Across our operating locations, including manufacturing, research and development, service, and training facilities, operators choose us for strategic solutions that add efficiency, flexibility, and responsibility to any energy operation. <br><br>We are focused on technology development, digital solutions, and defining our footprint in the new energy space. Our ability to provide integrated solutions across our segments will be critical to growth in our core operations and the energy transition. <br><br>Energy producers face unique challenges every day, so it is our job to create solutions that enhance safety, streamline operations, and sustain uptime to meet or exceed their targets. We operate across the global energy landscape employing some of the best diverse talent in the industry. At Weatherford, we understand the value each individual brings to the table. We celebrate diversity in all its forms and are immensely proud of our workforce. We invite you to join our passionate, talented, word-class team. <br><br>When you join Weatherford, you instantly feel connected to something bigger - a community that is grounded by our core values and driven to create innovative solutions for our customers. We celebrate each other's successes, grow together, and learn from each other constantly. Individually, we are impressive. Together, we are unstoppable. We are One Weatherford. <br><br>Weatherford offers competitive compensation, a comprehensive benefits program and provides you a challenging and enriching career path, with a healthy balance of structure and flexibility to chart your own course. <br><br>Weatherford is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law. <br><br><b> Responsibilities </b><br><br><b> Job purpose </b> <br><br> Deliver and develop approved technical training for internal and external trainees at recognized technical training centers. The Production Engineering Instructor is responsible for coordinating with Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) to update literature and materials to be used in training programs (videos, technical work instruction, etc.) and keeps up-to-date, and develops exercises to enhance learning objectives to account for new capabilities or changes in business objectives. <br><br><b> Duties & Responsibilities </b> <br><br>SAFETY, SECURITY & COMPLIANCE <br><ul><li> Maintains the highest standards of corporate governance, ensuring that all activities are carried out ethically and in compliance with Company's Security, Compliance & HSE policies, Management System, relevant laws, regulations, standards and industry practices and complies with the Company's Rules to Live By </li><li> Places Quality, Health & Safety, Security and protection of the Environment as core values while never intentionally placing employees, our processes, customers or the communities in which we live and work at risk </li><li> Seeks continual improvement in Health, Safety, Security & protection of the Environment, taking into account responsible care, process vulnerabilities, public, customer and employee inputs, knowledge and technology and best business practices to exceed customer expectations </li></ul><br> QUALITY <br><ul><li> 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 </li><li> Maintains service quality as an immediate priority when working across all areas of the business and continually seeks areas for improvement </li></ul><br> OPERATIONS <br><ul><li> Responsible for delivery of training, technical competency development, and career progression requirements: <ul><li> Coordinate all talent management solutions including training material, external and internal communication, etc. for the Digital Solutions team </li><li> Provide training support for all clients including petroleum/production engineering for oil and gas production, geothermal energy, and carbon capture in subsurface reservoirs </li><li> Assist with developing and delivering a training program to solve customers' challenges for digital transformation in the drilling and production domain </li></ul></li><li> Proficiency in all aspects of the technical training development and delivery, and managing the technical competency development activities, but not limited to: <ul><li> Ensure technical training documentation is relevant and up to date </li><li> Create, maintain, and sustain Training & Competency documentation standards </li><li> Work with the Global Technical Development, Infrastructure Team, and other Product Lines' Training and Competency Managers, Subject Matter Experts (SMEs), and Instructional Designers </li></ul></li><li> Develop and deliver petroleum engineering and production optimization training including: <ul><li> Digital oil field and production operations </li><li> Performing production analysis and optimizing production under surface and reservoir constraints </li><li> Performing material balance calculations, pressure transient analysis, and production analysis </li><li> Building IPR based on Well productivity, and determining operating point based on the tubing performance curve </li><li> Generating model inputs necessary for reservoir simulation such as VLP curve, surface or bottom hole pressure constraints </li><li> Performing nodal analysis, tubing lift calculations, and tubing lift evaluation without supervision </li><li> Designing, analyzing, and optimizing artificial lift systems including but not limited to RRL, gas lift, ESP, PCP, jet pump, etc. </li><li> Identifying production issues caused by near wellbore issues e.g., skin or permeability degradation, sand production, wellbore issues e.g. liquid loading, hydrates, paraffin, and asphaltenes and recommend solutions to assure optimal flow </li><li> Building black oil, extended black oil, compositional, EOR and thermal models for well and surface network </li><li> Performing routine QA/QC on all production and completion data relevant to building production models </li><li> Evaluating surface production facilities' impact on short-term, mid-term, and long-term field performance by building surface network models incorporating wells, pipelines, pumps, separators, and delivery nodes </li><li> Defining forecast scenarios incorporating reservoir deliverability constraints, flow capacity, processing capacity, and economic constraints and performing surface network optimization under production constraints, delivery requirements, lift gas availability, injection water availability or produced liquid handling to identify bottlenecks and flow issues impacting performance </li><li> Performing reliability and failure analysis of well and surface network under supervision to establish root cause analysis of failure and suggest mitigation techniques for future operations </li><li> Using Field Services Management protocols to create, modify, monitor, and close activities </li><li> Generate and Q/C post jobs reports </li><li> Configuring and troubleshooting a SCADA system incorporating RTU, and gauges. Understanding configuration requirements and communication protocols necessary to acquire data from the field. Understanding data flow between SCADA and production optimization platform to monitor real-time production operations </li><li> Using advanced analytics/machine learning techniques for the identification of equipment failure and operations optimization </li><li> Leveraging multi-disciplinary teams to deliver Integrated Asset Management with collaboration with reservoir, field operations, real-time operators, and facilities operations. </li><li> Using advanced fluid flow analysis to model advanced processes such as flow assurance, thermo-dynamic impact, transient flow behavior etc. </li></ul></li><li> Adhere to Training department policies and procedures. work with the Training and Competency Manager to deliver training projects- whether large region, or impact ensuring that all milestones of budget and timeline are met in line with project objectives </li><li> Facilitate pre- and post-training client sessions that determine needs/challenges, address client questions, manage expectations and resolve concerns to exceed clients' expectations and meet internal quality, time, and budget constraints </li><li> Lead, mentor, and train team members for the effective development of learning and competence standards, content improvement, and domain development </li><li> Remain current on industry regulations, developments, and the technical community. Contribute to the global technical society in thought leadership exercises and advisory boards </li><li> Work assignments carried out to the highest quality level </li><li> Perform various other duties and activities as assigned by the supervisor within the physical constraints of the job </li></ul><br> COMMUNICATION <br><ul><li> Maintains effective communications with all key stakeholders both internal and where appropriate external </li></ul><br> FINANCIAL <br><ul><li> 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 </li><li> Costs incurred should be within the approved budget, processed within agreed time frames & following the relevant financial policy and procedure </li></ul><br> PEOPLE & DEVELOPMENT <br><ul><li> Employees have a responsibility for developing their own careers within the Company including completing all necessary function, compliance & business standards training to enhance their knowledge, skills and experience </li><li> Employees should engage on a regular basis with their line manager to discuss their personal performance, objectives and opportunities to enhance their skills and experience to support their career potential </li></ul> <br><br><b> Qualifications </b><br><br><b> Experience & Education </b> <br><br>REQUIRED <br><ul><li> BA/BS/BE Degree in Petroleum Engineering OR higher with oil gas industry work experience </li><li> 7+ years of relevant industry experience including working in international locations and 3+ years as a Technical Training Instructor </li></ul><br> PREFERRED <br><ul><li> Experience with Python, VB Script, C
(or other .NET language) </li><li> Previous IT or Enterprise Software experience </li><li> Working knowledge of the Oil & Gas Industry </li></ul><br><br><b> Knowledge, Skills & Abilities </b> <br><br>REQUIRED <br><ul><li> Ability to manage, motivate and assess a dynamic work group </li><li> Demonstrated ability to effectively train and mentor personnel in classroom and field environments. </li><li> Knowledge of technical training program design and development techniques </li><li> Ability to plan, delegate, schedule and monitor results </li><li> Good oral and written communication skills are a necessity </li></ul><br> PREFERRED <br><ul><li> Technical-minded and very knowledgeable in the product line category </li></ul>