Drilling/Workover Superintendent

Title: Drilling/Workover Superintendent

Department: Field Services

Reports To: VP-Field Services

FLSA Status: Exempt

Location: Bakersfield, CA

Employment Type: Regular Full-Time

Overview of Position:

The Drilling/Workover Superintendent oversees the safe, efficient execution of drilling and workover operations, ensures regulatory, environmental health & safety compliance, emergency preparedness, quality assurance/control throughout each operation. This role directs execution of the drilling plan and supervises Drilling/Workover personnel supporting drilling location construction and reclamation.

The position optimizes drilling team resources, mentors engineering staff and field supervisors, and provides expertise for planning and executing critical or complex wells.

The Superintendent also serves as a professional, tactful stand-in for the Drilling/Workover Manager when needed.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

· Approves rig selection, ensuring that pre-acceptance audits are performed and negotiates contract terms (operational) with the chosen drilling contractor.

· Ensures that contractors are qualified operationally and in accordance with the Company’s Environmental Health & Safety standards.

· Ensures that the operations within area of responsibility are evaluated for risk through the use of appropriate procedures and/or industry standards.

· Ensures that all regulatory requirements for the operation are met.

· Approves the drilling program and associated operational plans.

· Ensures and directs the operational and safe execution of the drilling program.

· Monitors daily expenses, tracking well costs, and ensures invoices for all drilling services are correctly processed and paid timely.

· Ensures accuracy of the well’s final drilling cost reconciliation.

· Approves the well’s post drilling analysis report.

· Approves the quarterly drilling performance reports.

· Presents a proper example of work ethics for subordinates.

· Champions a strong safety culture, participates in incident investigations and root-cause analyses.

· Identifies operational, environmental, and regulatory risks across the well lifecycle and implements mitigation strategies to protect schedule, cost, safety, and compliance.

· Supervises assigned company employees and contractors, setting performance expectations and supporting professional development.

· Performs all other job-related duties as assigned.