Technical Superintendent – Harsh Environment Jack-Up Rigs, North Sea

Are you a technical profile with offshore work experience and looking to accelerate your career in an onshore environment? Do you thrive in an environment where you are personally accountable and empowered to make decisions within your area of expertise?

Are you an independent, ambitious and reliable person? Then you might be the one we are looking for to become part of a very successful operations team supporting our Jack-Up drilling rigs in the North Sea.

We Offer

The role is part of the Technical team supporting Jack-Ups Assets in the North sea and can be based either in Stavanger, Norway or in Esbjerg, Denmark. The Technical Superintendent provides technical support and advice to the rig teams in order for them to delivering a safe operation in compliance with Noble Drilling requirements, local and international legislation, and industry standards. You will be placed in the frontline of our drilling operation and have frequent contact with our offshore employees and clients.

The position is based onshore in Stavanger or in Esbjerg and travel within the North Sea region, both on- and offshore work is to be expected. Employment will be on local employment terms in Norway or Denmark.

Our strong focus on diversity is a natural outcome of a company with a strong talent focus, mindset and culture. This goes hand in hand with a commitment to inclusion: all employees are valued and treated with respect at all times and we believe that our employees thrive and perform better with a healthy work-life balance.

Key Responsibilities 

As our new Technical Superintendent, your primary responsibility will be to monitor the daily drilling operations in terms of optimizing procedures and equipment in order to improve the overall rig efficiency.

You act as technical focal point for the offshore maintenance team, monitoring and controlling subcontractors’ workshop repairs of the rig equipment while maintaining good relations with our major equipment suppliers.

Other tasks and responsibilities:

• Incorporate company strategy into the technical daily business
• Monitor daily drilling and operational activities in view of optimizing procedures and equipment in order to improve the overall efficiency
• Ensuring that IFS/Maintenance is incorporated in projects and other tasks where information is important in relations to equipment history and maintenance planning
• Review equipment requirements and coordinate planned maintenance by reviewing monthly reports in collaboration with the teams onboard the rig
• Provide input to budgets
• Technical responsible for compliance up against Class and continental shelf requirement.
• Close communication and collaboration with the Technical team offshore and the onshore Rig team
• Incorporate company strategy into the technical daily business
• Review equipment requirements and coordinate planned maintenance by reviewing monthly reports in collaboration with the teams onboard the rig

Who we are looking for

The ideal candidate has a theoretical background at Bachelor level or similar in a technical discipline or hands-on offshore work experience for at least 5 years in the offshore oil & gas sector as Technical Section Leader, Maintenance Engineer, Chief Engineer or similar. Experience with drilling equipment is a requirement.

You are confident working with IT and possess good English communication skills.

Experience with our maintenance system IFS is an advantage.

Noble Drilling Norge AS seeks an experienced person with flair for technical tasks to strengthen the drilling operation. You are conversant with safety, health and environmental management principles, and have a good knowledge to computer based maintenance systems

You are forward thinking, take initiative and capable delivering results by own work but in close collaboration with those around you. You thrive in teams and you like integrating maintenance and technical matters with the overall business, in particular in areas of performance, customer objectives, HSE and finance.

We will be reviewing applications on an ongoing basis and will close the add once we have found the right candidate. Therefore we encourage you to apply as soon as possible. Applications submitted via email will not be reviewed or forwarded.