Wells Planning Engineer

Wells Planning Engineer at West African Exploration and Production (WAEP)

West African Exploration and Production Company (WAEP) is an indigenous energy company focused on the exploration, development, and production of hydrocarbon resources across West Africa headquartered in Lagos State, Nigeria.

WAEP is committed to delivering safe, efficient, and sustainable energy solutions through the application of industry best practice...

Wells Planning Engineer

• Job Type Full Time
• Qualification BA/BSc/HND
• Experience 8 - 12 years
• Location Lagos
• Job Field Engineering / Technical

Role Purpose

• Develop integrated well plans, schedules, cost estimates and execution readiness requirements to support safe and efficient delivery of drilling, completion, intervention and abandonment activities.

Core Competencies

• Integrated well planning
• Scheduling and critical-path analysis
• Cost and time estimation
• Operational readiness Risk management
• Wells logistics integration Performance reporting
• Multidisciplinary coordination

Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

• Safe and timely delivery of assigned activities
• Compliance with planned maintenance/well execution schedules
• Quality and accuracy of technical documentation and reporting
• Reduction of operational downtime, failures or non- productive time as applicable
• HSE and regulatory compliance
• Effective contractor/stakeholder coordination

Key Responsibilities

• Develop integrated well activity plans and detailed execution schedules in collaboration with Wells and asset teams.

• Coordinate technical inputs for well design, sequencing. logistics, contracting and operational readiness.

• Develop and maintain well planning assumptions, time estimates, cost forecasts and look-ahead plans.

• Identify critical-path activities, schedule risks and readiness gaps and coordinate mitigation actions.

• Support preparation and assurance of well programmes, decision-gate documentation and execution readiness reviews.

• Integrate rig vessel, materials, personnel and service- company requirements into executable plans..

• Track planning milestones and report deviations, constraints and recovery actions

• Support annual Wells work programmes, budgets and campaign planning.

• Maintain planning records, lessons learned and performance benchmarks for continuous improvement.

• Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering or related technical discipline.

• Minimum 8-12 years' relevant upstream oil and gas experience with substantial wells planning/execution exposure.

• Proficiency in recognized planning/scheduling tools; project manage