Senior Drilling & Completions Engineer

Role Overview

Reporting to the VP Corporate and Engineering Services, this role is part of the team which is accountable for the planning, design, execution, and optimization of Rubellite's drilling, completions, and well intervention programs.

Working across Rubellite's heavy oil and Clearwater assets, the successful candidate will work with the Manager, Drilling & Completions to take wells from concept through execution and postwell evaluation, partnering with multidisciplinary teams to safely deliver cost-effective, highperforming wells. The role combines technical expertise, operational execution, capital stewardship, with data analytics and a mindset for continuous improvement to maximize asset value.

Success Profile

This role requires an experienced drilling and completions engineer who thrives in a collaborative, entrepreneurial environment and enjoys taking ownership of projects from data-driven design and planning through execution, and then maximizing learnings and future performance through rigorous lookback analysis.

Specific initiatives include

- Deliver drilling and completion programs safely, on schedule, and within budget.
- Set the bar for safety as priority one in everything we do, through both proactive measures and processes to drive continuous improvement.
- Implement rigorous cost optimization through risk-managed design improvements and supplier negotiation.
- Optimize well designs to improve cost per meter, production performance and capital efficiency.
- Continuously improve drilling and completion performance through risk-managed technical innovation, post-well learning and data analytics.




- Evaluate emerging drilling and completion technologies and recommend practical improvements to enhance operational performance.
- Support capital planning and long-term asset development.
- Build solid relationships across Engineering, Operations, Geology, Reservoir, Production, Land, Regulatory, and Supply Chain.
- Proactively collaborate across the organization to ensure preparedness to execute a spectrum of potential programs, responding with nimbleness to evolving business priorities contingency planning for future drilling programs.

Key Accountabilities and Responsibilities

Drilling & Completions

- Collaborate with asset teams to understand broad spectrum of risks and activate risk mitigation planning.
- Plan, design, and execute drilling, completion, and well intervention programs, stick diagrams and well schematics.
- Develop technically sound and economically optimized well designs.
- Monitor operational performance and provide engineering support throughout execution.
- Conduct post-well reviews and incorporate lessons learned into future development programs.
- Utilize data analytics and AI tools to prepare real time drill curves compared to budget, identify cost reduction opportunities, drilling optimization ,process improvements and key drivers of execution performance and variance




- Conduct offset well reviews to support design optimization and risk reduction.
- Coordinate vendor input across drilling, fluids, cementing and directional services.

Capital Planning & Commercial Stewardship

- Prepare AFEs, cost estimates, and technical input supporting capital planning.
- Monitor project costs, schedules, and performance against approved budgets.
- Identify opportunities to improve capital efficiency and reduce well costs.

Operational Excellence

- Promote safe, efficient, and reliable execution across all drilling and completion activities.
- Ensure compliance with corporate standards, regulatory requirements, and industry best practices.
- Support continuous improvement through engineering analysis, data analytics, operational learning, and technical innovation.
- Maintain and improve internal tools, datasets and engineering processes

Asset Development & Collaboration

- Partner with Geology, Reservoir Engineering, Production Engineering, Operations, and other stakeholders to optimize well performance and maximize asset value.
- Support reserves development, annual development planning, and technical evaluations.
- Build strong relationships with drilling contractors, consultants, and service providers.

Leadership & Competencies

- Strong technical expertise in horizontal multi-lateral drilling, completions, and well construction along with experience in drilling thermal wells.
- Performs with a high level of accountability for identifying value-adding opportunities and completing all tasks, projects, execution on time and on budget.
- High level of

📌 Senior Drilling (Canada)
🏢 Rubellite Energy
📍 Canada