Drilling Engineer

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Job Role Overview

This role provides Drilling Engineers a fantastic opportunity to transition into digital software delivery, contributing directly to the next generation of well construction software and operational workflows. As a Drilling Engineer within Horizon
56’s Customer Optimization Team, you will play a key role in shaping, validating, and operationalizing the next generation of digital drilling solutions. The Customer Optimization Team is a newly formed function within Horizon
56, created to ensure our software is designed, validated, and adopted in a way that delivers real operational value for customers.

The position sits at the intersection of drilling engineering, product development, and customer engagement, with a strong focus on ensuring Horizon
56 software is designed, tested, and delivered in a way that reflects real-world operational needs. From early product research through to customer adoption, you will apply your operational experience to help build innovative features, validate designs, and ensure new functionality is truly fit for purpose before it reaches live operations.

In this role, you will work closely with product managers, designers, commercial teams and the customers themselves to represent the Operator and Drilling Engineer perspective throughout the product lifecycle. You will support operational acceptance testing of new features, contribute directly to product research and design validation, and help customers build high‑quality operational content libraries within the Horizon
56 platform.

In addition, you will assist the sales team with product demonstrations and pre‑customer engagement, ensuring prospective customers clearly understand how Horizon
56 solutions support real drilling workflows. This position is well suited for drilling engineers who want to influence how digital solutions are built and adopted, while remaining closely connected to operational reality.

Job Role Responsibilities

The following responsibilities reflect the initial scope of the role as the Customer Optimization Team is established. As the team grows and Horizon
56’s digital solutions continue to scale, the role will naturally evolve, offering opportunities to expand responsibility, influence, and impact. This position represents the starting point of a longer journey, helping shape both the team and the future of digital delivery within Horizon
56.

• Contribute to product research, applying operational expertise to help shape new features and future customer value.
• Perform design validation to ensure software solutions are fit for purpose from an Operator and Drilling Engineer perspective.
• Carry out operational acceptance testing of new developments prior to release, ensuring functionality is practical, usable, and operationally robust.
• Act as a domain expert throughout the product lifecycle, representing customer needs and operational realities.
• Assist the Sales team with product demonstrations, pre-customer engagement, and operational input to clearly communicate product value.
• Be assigned to specific customers where required, working closely with their teams to maximize value from Horizon
  56 services through quality improvement, best‑practice guidance, and continuous optimisation

Required qualifications, skills and experience

• Degree qualified in Petroleum Engineering, Drilling Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related discipline.
• Proven experience as a Drilling Engineer, including hands‑on exposure at the rig site and direct interaction with drilling crews and offshore/onshore operations.
• Strong background in the use of well planning and drilling engineering software.
• Experience developing rig team instructions, procedures and operational guidelines, translating engineering intent into clear, practical execution steps.
• Solid understanding of drilling operations, workflows and interfaces between Operator, drilling contractor and service providers.
• Interest and curiosity in digital solutions, with a strong motivation to improve operational workflows through software and data.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the…