Global Product Line Specialist

Overview

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.

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.

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, world-class team.

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.

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.

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.

Responsibilities

Weatherford have a very exciting opportunity for an experienced Global Product Line Specialist to join the team in Aberdeen. This role is considered as Global Technical Support (Subject Matter Expert) for MARS (Mature Asset Rejuvenation through Surveillance). This role is intended for providing support to the Product Line Management with financial plans, product line strategy and implementation, product development, marketing plans, and technical and commercial support. This role is also responsible for the interface between Research & Development (R&D) and Geozone Operations during the commercialization phase and the application engineering for new technologies / product.

Roles & Responsibilities:

SAFETY, SECURITY & COMPLIANCE

• Maintains the highest standards of corporate governance, ensuring that all activities are conducted 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
• 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
• Seeks continual improvement in health, safety, Security and 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. QUALITY
• 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
• Maintains service quality as an immediate priority when working across all areas of the business and continually seeks areas for improvement. OPERATIONS
• Participate an overall product line strategy, development priorities and operational support for Product Line assigned.
• Provide technical support and guidance for any problem that may be encountered during the business development, applications design, commercialization, field installation and training process for product line assigned.
• Liaise with Geozone to support operations and business development as a Subject Matter Expert (SME).
• Interface with the engineering, design the best product solutions and provide guidance based on previous operational and field experience, liaison with operations.
• Facilitate and support the coordination of prototype testing at the R&D facility as required by the engineering group.
• Partner with a variety of functional areas such as sales, operations, engineering, manufacturing, and operations to develop and to provide product definitions in response to Operation's needs and market opportunities.
• Coordinate the field trials of a new hardware and or software in coordination with the Geozones.
• Support the development of technical work instructions, competency and training material, presentations, sales literature, technical sales sheets, real results and financial plans.
• Provide financial and technical justification for product selection/justification and definition.
• Coordinate required support with R&D and Manufacturing for all Product Line Equipment Lifecycle Management.
• Coordinate support for legacy equipment and software. COMMUNICATION
• Maintains effective communications with all key stakeholders both internal and where appropriate external. FINANCIAL
• Provide financial and technical justification for product selection/justification and definition.
• 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.
• Costs incurred should be within the approved budget, processed within agreed time frames & following the relevant financial policy and procedure. PEOPLE & DEVELOPMENT
• Conduct Internal and External Training as required for the Product Line.
• Actively participate in Industry Workshop such as SPE, API, ISO, ASME, or any other Oil and Gas institution.
• Employees have a responsibility for developing their own careers within the Company including completing all necessary function, compliance and business standards training to enhance their knowledge, skills and experience.
• 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. VISION & LEADERSHIP
• Demonstrates leadership, ethical behaviour and adherence to Weatherford standards at all times.

Qualifications

Required:

• Bachelor's degree in engineering or equivalent demonstrated experience.
• 15+ years Oilfield experience in both Offshore/Onshore environments.
• Subject Matter Expert (SME) in MARS (Mature Asset Rejuvenation through Surveillance).
• Technical knowledge of Mature Asset Rejuvenation through Surveillance (MARS), completions and rejuvenation products.
• Strong organizational and communication skills.
• Familiarity with reading, analysing, and interpreting common scientific and technical journals, financial reports, and legal documents.
• Familiarity with mathematical operations such as frequency distributions, test reliability and validity, variance analysis, correlation techniques, and factor analysis.
• Skill in examining tenders, market conditions and operational requirements.
• Demonstrated ability to effectively train and mentor personnel in classroom and field environments.
• Complex problem solving and analytical skills.
• Work effectively across a diverse multicultural multilingual community.
• The physical ability to immediately respond to emergency situations.
• Ability to travel – domestic and international – if necessary. Preferred:
• Experience in Technical and Operational support for Product Line assigned.
• Experience in strategic planning and execution.
• Experience in optical reservoir monitoring.
• Knowledge of contracting, negotiating, and change management.

Job Locations UK-ABERDEEN

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Category OPERATIONS

Position Type Regular Full-Time