Job Description

Senior Completion & Well Intervention Engineer

Location: Perth, Western Australia
Employment Type: Contract
Duration: Approximately three years, with potential extension

Zenith Energy is seeking an experienced Senior Completion & Well Intervention Engineer to join our Perth-based project team and support the planning and delivery of a major well abandonment program.

Reporting to the Lead Abandonment Engineer, this position will act as the technical focal point for completion recovery and downhole well intervention activities. The successful candidate will provide technical leadership across slickline, electric line, pumping, fishing and other intervention-based operations, from initial engineering and contracting through to execution.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop completion and well intervention programs in accordance with operational objectives, regulatory requirements and Zenith’s Well Integrity Management System.
• Act as the technical focal point for slickline, wireline, pumping, completion recovery and intervention activities.
• Lead FAT and SIT activities for complex operations, including E-line milling, stuck-plug recovery and bespoke tooling.
• Support planning for completion recovery following removal of subsea production equipment.
• Lead technical evaluations and provide contract sponsorship for well intervention service subcontracts.
• Support contracting activities for intervention riser and subsea test tree systems.
• Prepare time and cost estimates for well abandonment operations.
• Provide technical input to project reporting, regulatory submissions, end-of-well reports and lessons learned.
• Support intervention operations and undertake Operations Engineer duties during relevant project phases.
• Travel to vendor facilities and operational locations for FAT, SIT, tooling and loadout activities as required.

About You

You will bring:

• A minimum of 10 years’ industry experience, including at least five years in a similar operator-based role.
• At least two years’ field supervision experience, preferably involving well intervention operations.
• Demonstrated experience leading intervention and abandonment scopes from design through to execution.
• Strong experience in completion recovery, wireline-based abandonment technologies and fishing on wire.
• Sound knowledge of well integrity, barrier philosophies and Well Integrity Management Systems.
• Well services contracting and contract-management experience.
• Knowledge of OEUK Decommissioning Guidelines, NORSOK D-010 and Australian offshore regulatory requirements.
• Previous subsea completion, intervention riser or subsea test tree experience is highly regarded.
• Current IWCF Level 4 Well Intervention certification.
• A proactive safety mindset and the ability to manage multiple technical workstreams with limited supervision.

Applicants must have the unrestricted right to work in Australia. BOSIET or HUET certification may be required for offshore visits.

Why Join Zenith?

This is an opportunity to take a key technical role within a long-term, technically complex well abandonment program. You will work closely with an experienced multidisciplinary team and have meaningful input into the engineering, contracting and execution strategy for critical intervention activities.

To apply, submit your CV through the Zenith Energy careers page or contact our recruitment team for a confidential discussion.