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 Champion - Sand Control to join the team in either Aberdeen or Houston. The Global PL Champion for Sand Control will analyse, plan, organize, and commercialize sand control product line products and/or services, based on the needs expressed by the product line, from inception (Research and Development) into implementation, commercialization, and training, continuing through product life cycles to optimize profit and meet marketing, financial and corporate growth objectives.
Roles & Responsibilities:
SAFETY, SECURITY & COMPLIANCE
- Maintain 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.
- Place 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.
- Seek 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.
- Demonstrate effective safety leadership for the health and safety arrangements of all subordinates and for any persons visiting them while on the Company premises.
QUALITY
- Responsible for being familiar with the Company's Quality policies and takes an active role in the compliance and improvement of Weatherford's Management System.
- Maintains Service Quality as immediate priorities when working across all areas of the business and continually seeks areas for improvement.
- Active participation in the investigation and closure of all PC-1 & PC-2 issues related to your product line assuring that these are closed out in a timely manner and that they are reported to line management through Weatherford process and policy.
OPERATIONS
- Technical product line expert in the Sand Face Solutions global product line.
- Support planning and execution of the specific product strategy by gathering input and business needs from customers, and then identifying a product based solution(s) to generate revenue and/or create value.
- Where product / technology offering gaps exist, identify and evaluate opportunities for 3rd party alliance / partnerships and assist generation of associated business case for review by GPLM / VP.
- Articulate and develop clear value propositions based on new technology business case(s).
- Ensure that commercial proposals and value propositions are delivered with product line VP approval based on the business case.
- Direct any research and development projects or efforts required in order to create the products and/or services required as per above. Work with RD&E on all ongoing engineering efforts to progress Product Line products and/or services quality improvement initiatives forward.
- Evaluates and prioritizes requests for new technology changes, enhancements, and new features; participates in product requirements through interviews with stakeholders, collaboration with product designers and other methods as needed.
- Actively promotes the new technology to ensure all business objectives are met following the commercial launch of the new technology.
- Generate technical papers and case histories to promote the new product / service.
- Provides feedback/supporting materials to Training/Development team for Field Engineer and Sales training.
- Provides technical input/support into all new product/service-related incidents, following up on corrective actions and evaluation the success of these actions.
- Continually review progress through product life cycle to ensure attainment of objectives.
- Creates clear and thorough acceptance criteria to ensure that the team understands when work is complete; participates in the retrospective.
- Provide direct, high-level support to customers for critical new technology / services.
- Analyse Repair & Maintenance data and work with RD&E to drive the improvements (including field trial) required for the effective reduction of cost/circulating hour.
COMMUNICATION
- Maintain communication and contacts to collect and analyse technical, financial, marketing, schedule, and sales information for product line.
- Promote Weatherford's new technology within the industry by writing technical papers, attending industry conferences, contributing to the development of technical marketing material, making technical sales presentations to customers, and providing other technical support to sales and operations.
- Maintains effective communications with all key stakeholders both internal and where appropriate external.
- Resolves conflicts between competing stakeholders by prioritizing requirements and products for development and commercialization; tracks project issues to completion, such as outstanding questions, decisions or changes.
FINANCIAL
- Define and monitor relevant KPI's to identify areas of improvement and drive operational improvements.
- Define and ensure KPIs are measured as per the value proposition and communicate clear value to the PL and to customers to maintain pricing targets.
- 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 approved budget, processed within agreed time frames and following the relevant financial policy and procedure.
PEOPLE & DEVELOPMENT
- Provide operational technical support for all globally active operations to ensure tools are ran within specification and following best practices and lessons learned.
- Partner with Technical Development to maintain the Global Product Line's training requirements in line with competency assessments.
- Employees have a responsibility for developing their own careers within the Company including completing all necessary function training to enhance their skills and experience.
- Employees must complete all assigned Compliance and Company Standards training.
- 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.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in an Engineering or Scientific discipline or equivalent experience.
- 10+ years oilfield experience.
- Comprehensive understanding of Sand Control Completions principles and concepts.
- 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.
- Proficient Microsoft Office and computer skills.
- This role may require domestic and potentially international travel of up to: 25-50%.
- Experience in strategic planning and execution and knowledge of contracting, negotiating, and change management would be preferred.
- Experience in sales and marketing would be beneficial.
