SENIOR DRILLING ENGINEER RESUME EXAMPLE
Updated: Sep 25, 2025 - The Senior Drilling Engineer ensures safety compliance for all personnel and contractors while maintaining hazard-free work areas. Oversees workforce training, environmental reporting, and equipment maintenance within Compressor Stations. Manages operational costs, budgets, and facilitates communication across departments for continuous improvement.


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1. Senior Drilling Engineer, Parker Wellbore, Houston, TX
Job Summary:
- Supervise and perform work safely to ensure all employees and contractors comply with safety processes and procedures when performing duties at all times.
- Ensure safety of all employees and contractors, by promoting and continually developing a safe work culture.
- Responsible for overseeing the workforce to maintain clean and hazard-free work areas.
- Make sure all contractors have completed the training on hazards.
- Communicate all safety issues directly to the Company Safety Supervisor and field personnel.
- Comply with all Environmental laws, policies, and regulations.
- Promptly report all adverse Environmental conditions.
- Coordinate activities related to facilities with employees, contractors, and other applicable departments.
- Communicate with operational management on any issues, updates, or improvement suggestions.
- Oversee and coordinate the maintenance of ancillary equipment within the Compressor Stations such as, but not limited to glycol dehydration units, filter vessels, tank farms, instrument air compressors, and gas and liquid piping.
- Ensure proper training is provided for Plant Operators for procedures, best practices, and other professional development.
- Responsible for managing operational costs and budget expectations for the responsible area.
- Review, verify, and approve all applicable invoices for third (3rd) party services and materials.
- Supervising Plant Operators to ensure reliable and efficient Midstream services.
- Participating in Compressor Station PSSRs (Pre-Startup Safety Review) as lead representative for Station Operations.
Skills on Resume:
- Safety Supervision (Hard Skills)
- Hazard Identification (Hard Skills)
- Environmental Compliance (Hard Skills)
- Communication (Soft Skills)
- Workforce Coordination (Soft Skills)
- Equipment Maintenance (Hard Skills)
- Training and Development (Soft Skills)
- Process Improvement (Soft Skills)
2. Senior Drilling Engineer, Global Synergy Corporation, Houston, TX
Job Summary:
- Ensure all relevant lessons learned from previous projects have been reviewed and necessary actions/plans have been utilized and implement in the well design activities.
- Assist in maintaining and conducting regular reviews and follow-up of the Well Risk Register to capture all the project and well risks and identified actions to mitigate the risks.
- Responsible for the preparation and conducting frequent reviews of the detailed well Master Equipment List (MEL) for all the phases/sections of the well.
- Assist the logistics team in ensuring that all the LLIs and equipment required for the project are covered in the materials logistics plan.
- Assist in the preparation and conducting of a final review of the well-testing programme.
- Assist in the preparation and conducting of a final review of the well P&A program.
- Assist in the preparation and conducting of a final review of the Well Containment Plan, Blow Out Contingency Plan and Relief Well Plan.
- Assist in identifying and handling Management of Changes (policy dispensations and non-conformances) if and when necessary, following Company processes and procedures.
- Assist with the preparation and perform the final review of key HSE and Logistics documentation
- Assist in the preparation of the Well Control Bridging Document.
- Assist in finalizing the equipment and tools mobilization plan.
- Assist in the preparation and estimating of the Well KPI’s and develop rig operational KPIs for the project.
- Assist in capturing the best practices, lessons learned and key performance indicators by means of the knowledge management methodologies available.
- Planning and engineering of unconventional drilling projects including technical research, procurement of services, cost estimating, and AFE preparation.
- Drilling program design including permitting, wellbore trajectories, hydraulics, mechanics, motor and bit, and drilling fluids design.
Skills on Resume:
- Risk Management (Hard Skills)
- Well Design (Hard Skills)
- Logistics Coordination (Soft Skills)
- HSE Documentation (Hard Skills)
- Process Improvement (Soft Skills)
- Equipment Mobilization (Hard Skills)
- KPI Development (Hard Skills)
- Knowledge Management (Soft Skills)
3. Senior Drilling Engineer, HOLE Group, United States
Job Summary:
- Assist the well engineering activities throughout the entire well design and construction process.
- Ensure well design meets the good objectives and is engineered in accordance with the applicable regulations and established standards (including Indonesian Standards, NORSOK Standard D-010 and REPSOL Well Construction Process, Procedures, Standards and Guidelines), safe practices, risk analysis, legislation and environment-friendly manner/approach.
- Ensure that information from offset and analogous wells, restrictions and environmental considerations meet project specifications.
- Assist the Lead Engineer(s), both Drilling and Well Testing, in ensuring that all the necessary inputs required for the required permits for the good operations are delivered within the set deadlines for the project.
- Prepare the Technical Specifications for Drilling equipment, materials and services for supporting the process of purchasing/tendering.
- Support the Well well-testing engineers in preparations of Technical Specifications for the well-testing / DST / Completion equipment, materials and services.
- Prepare final good design (including Basis of Well Design, Casing design and Well Testing / DST Design etc), time/cost estimates, AFEs and drilling programs for the planned Exploration, Appraisal & Development well(s).
- Assist in writing detailed procedures (Plan of Actions, POAs) for safe and efficient operations while maintaining expenditures within planned budget and schedule.
- Assist Drilling Superintendent, Lead Drilling Engineer and Lead Well Testing Engineer in conducting the Drill Well on Paper (DWOP), Test Well on Paper (TWOP) exercises and support in conducting the Pre-Spud meetings.
- Assist in conducting and participate in peer reviews, peer assists, risk assessments and hazard analysis in accordance with REPSOL standards, procedures and guidelines.
- Ensuring that Repsol maintains a competitive completion advantage through the effective use of technical innovations
- Help maximize the transfer of drilling technology to other operations
Skills on Resume:
- Well Design (Hard Skills)
- Regulatory Compliance (Hard Skills)
- Risk Analysis (Hard Skills)
- Technical Specifications (Hard Skills)
- Cost Estimation (Hard Skills)
- Project Management (Soft Skills)
- Procedural Writing (Hard Skills)
- Team Collaboration (Soft Skills)