Wireline Field Specialist
Delivering Flawless Wireline Execution
Baker Hughes is a global leader in wireline services, offering a massive portfolio designed to evaluate, build, and maintain wells through every stage of their lifecycle.
Fuel your passion
Baker Hughes wireline services runs both in open hole and cased hole wells. Open Hole services offering formation evaluation, fluid sampling, acoustic & nuclear technology. Cased Hole services focused on well integrity and production optimization after the casing is set.
As the Field Specialist will have the following responsibilities:
1. Operations & Technical Execution
- Logging Operations: Running sophisticated sensors (logging tools) into the wellbore on an armored electrical cable (the wireline) to measure rock properties like porosity, resistivity, and gamma radiation.
- Tool Assembly & Testing: Assembling complex "tool strings" and performing pre-run surface checks to ensure sensors are calibrated and functioning within narrow tolerances.
- Perforation & Mechanical Services: Executing explosive operations to puncture the well casing or setting mechanical plugs/packers to isolate specific zones of the well.
- Data Acquisition: Monitoring real-time data feeds during the "up-log" to ensure data quality and troubleshooting any signal interference or tool failures immediately.
2. Equipment Maintenance & Quality Control
- Preventative Maintenance: Overseeing the upkeep of the wireline winch unit, pressure control equipment, and the massive inventory of electronic logging tools.
- Calibration: Ensuring all measurement tools are calibrated against global standards to provide the client with legally and technically defensible data.
- System Troubleshooting: Diagnosing electrical, mechanical, or hydraulic failures in the field, often under extreme weather or time pressure.
3. Safety & Compliance (HSE)
- Pressure Control: Managing "Well Intervention" safety, ensuring that pressure control equipment (lubricators, BOPs) is rated for the well's specific pressure to prevent blowouts.
- Radiation & Explosives Safety: Acting as the Custodian for hazardous materials. This involves the safe handling, transport, and storage of radioactive sources and shaped-charge explosives.
- Risk Assessment: Leading "Tailgate" safety meetings and ensuring all crew members are following Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs).
4. Leadership & Client Relations
- Crew Management: Supervizing a team of operators and technicians, ensuring they are performing tasks efficiently and safely.
- On-site Representative: Serving as the primary point of contact for the "Company Man" (the client’s representative) to discuss job progress, data results, and operational risks.
- Reporting: Compiling final well logs, digital data files, and post-job reports that summarize the technical success of the operation.
5. Logistics & Prep
- Job Planning: Reviewing well schematics and history to select the correct equipment and anticipate potential downhole challenges like "sticking" or high temperatures.
- Inventory Management: Ensuring all necessary backup components, seals, and consumables are loaded onto the truck before leaving the district base.
To be successful in this role you will:
- Bachelor's degree in STEM from an accredited university is preferred or equivalent knowledge & experience
- Working experience in Wireline Operation
- Familiar with Radiation, Explosive, Winch Control
- Competent on operation Pressure Control Euipment
- Have good communication and team work skill
- Ready to work on challenging environment
- Able to work under pressure
Work in a way that works for you
We recognize that everyone is different and that the way in which people want to work and deliver at their best is different for everyone too. In this role, you need to be ready for uncertain job schedule/rotation
Working with us
Our people are at the heart of what we do at Baker Hughes. We know we are better when all of our people are developed, engaged and able to bring their whole authentic selves to work. We invest in the health and well-being of our workforce, train and reward talent and develop leaders at all levels to bring out the best in each other.
Working for you
Our inventions have revolutionized energy for over a century. But to keep going forward tomorrow, we know we have to push the boundaries today. We prioritize rewarding those who embrace change with a package that reflects how much we value their input. Join us, and you can expect:
- Contemporary work-life balance policies and wellbeing activities
- Comprehensive private medical care options
- Safety net of life insurance and disability programs
- Tailored financial programs
- Additional elected or voluntary benefits
The Baker Hughes internal title for this role is: FIELD SPEC GEN - WLE