Global Product Line Champion - Cementing Products

Company: Weatherford
Location: Houston
Posted on: March 19, 2023

Job Description:

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, word-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. We are focused on providing a challenging and enriching career path with a healthy balance of structure and flexibility to chart your own course. We are an innovative, global company with wide-ranging opportunities that include career-enhancing talent rotations. Our structured career paths will ensure that you know what it takes to build your ideal career at Weatherford when you join our Company. We also offer a comprehensive benefits program, including health insurance coverage, income protection plans, a 401(k) savings plan, Company paid holidays, and paid time off for vacation.

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

Job Purpose

Analyse, plan, organize, and commercialize Cementing Products, 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

• Maintains 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
  • 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 & 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
  • Supervisors & Managers should 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 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
      
      • Define and direct specific product strategy by gathering input and business needs from customers and then creating a product-based solution to generate revenue and/or create value
      • Direct any research and development projects or efforts required to create the products and/or services required as per above. Work with RD&E (Research, Development, and Engineering) on all ongoing sustaining efforts to progress Cementing Products service 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
      • Work with the Project Management and Engineering teams to implement feasible solutions that meet the timeline and budget of the stakeholders.
      • Continually review progress through product life cycle to ensure attainment of objectives
      • Responsible for ensuring publishing and distributing product improvement content including tech alerts, updated field procedures and work instructions
      • Liaise with SMEs (Subject Matter Expert) in service lines to generate training materials and deployment plans for commercialization; responsible for effectively communicating product features, value propositions, and roadmaps
      • Continually review progress through product life cycle to ensure attainment of objectives
      • 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
      • 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
      • 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
      • Promote Weatherford's new technology within the industry by drafting 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.
        
        COMMUNICATION
        
        • Maintain communication and contacts to collect and analyse technical, financial, marketing, schedule, and sales information for product line
        • Maintains effective communications with all key stakeholders both internal and where appropriate external
          
          FINANCIAL
          
          • 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
            
            • Provide operational technical support for all globally active operations to ensure tools are ran within specification and following best practices and lessons learned.
            • Perform competency assessments of personnel globally
            • Employees have a responsibility for developing their own careers within the Company including completing all necessary function, compliance & 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 behavior and adherence to Weatherford standards at all times
                
                Qualifications
                
                Experience & Education
                
                REQUIRED
                
                • Bachelor's degree in Engineering or Scientific discipline or equivalent experience
                • 6+ years oilfield experience
                  
                  Knowledge, Skills & Abilities
                  
                  REQUIRED
                  
                  • 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

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