Senior Well Abandonment Engineer – MODU Ops

Senior Well Abandonment Engineer – MODU Ops : T
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Type of Role Permanent or Contractor

Job Function Well Integrity, Operations, Production & Maintenance

Closing Date 16/01/26

TAQA is offering a new opportunity for a Senior Well Abandonment Engineer – MODU Ops in the Wells Department, based onshore in the Aberdeen office.

This position is open to both staff and contractors. If applying via an agency, this will be a contract position, and any internal contractor who applies and is successful will remain with their current contracting company.

Role Duration - 24 months

TAQA supports diversity in the workplace and along with an inclusive environment, aims to ensure everyone feels that they can be themselves s includes supporting people with a disability or health issue in a non-judgemental environment.

TAQA is committed to helping its employees and contractors work more flexibly to suit both their own and the Company's needs.

TAQA offers onshore employees and contractors a Compressed Working Week (CWW) in order to help achieve a healthy work-life balance. The CWW is an arrangement where employees contracted to work 37.5 hours per week will work 75 hours over 9 days (instead of 10 days). The 10th day in the second week of the CWW period is known as 'Flex Friday', a non-working day.

• Supports MODU Superintendent and rig teams with technical and planning work by coordinating onshore internal and external team members to plan operations, contingencies, resolve problems and execute rig operations safely, efficiently and cost effectively.
• Plans and executes well operations safely, efficiently and cost effectively in accordance with TAQA objectives, policies and procedures. Ensures well design and operations comply with legislation and good oilfield practice.

• Designs well activities and creates well programmes in compliance with the TAQA Management System by analyzing offset data, generating and evaluating design options, assessing risk, preparing detailed design and programme documents.
• Prepares Examination and Notification/Consent applications, preparing time and cost estimates, procuring services, equipment and materials and co‑ordinating suppliers and service providers to meet the Well objectives for drilling, completing or working over or abandoning the well.
• Prepares well design philosophies to ensure that life of well objectives can be met by the equipment to be installed.
• Keeps up to date with technology development and ensures technology developments are incorporated in well design and operations where appropriate.

• Supports MODU Superintendent and rig teams with technical and planning work by co-ordinating onshore internal and external team members to plan contingencies, resolve problems and execute rig operations safely, efficiently and cost effectively.
• Assists MODU Superintendent with the creation and efficient review of detailed work instructions, peer reviews, risk assessments, programme reviews, MoCs, operational deviations, AWOPs etc.
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Assists with arranging personnel and equipment based on the well schedule and operations to ensure all the required primary and contingency personnel are available to deliver safe and efficient operations.
• Makes regular offshore rig visits to oversee vendor work activities and to enhance Company/vendor communications and relationships.

• Provides technical support for procurement and tender evaluation processes, with subsequent technical support for the commercial contract drafting.
• During well operations, pro-actively manages vendor contracts ensuring technical & commercial compliance.

• Creates reports for the TAQA and legislative bodies by compiling operations information and performance analysis to provide an as-installed record of events and well components.
• Leads wash-up meetings and close out non-conformance reports.
• Records lessons learned by analysing performance and comparing the observed result against the plan to provide learning for the organization for future…