About US: Pacific Drilling is an industry leading offshore drilling company that provides global deepwater drilling services to the oil and natural gas industry through the use of high-specification drillships. Our corporate offices are located in Houston and Luxembourg, with offices in Brazil. We have one of the newest and most technologically advanced fleets in the industry.
Our vessels are state-of-the-art, high-specification drillships, which benefit from a proven design and highly developed construction techniques. We are dedicated to becoming the industry’s preferred deepwater drilling contractor with an unwavering commitment to customer service and operating with the utmost integrity and focus on safety.
We continue to combine the strength of a large, well-capitalized enterprise with the agility and flexibility of a small solution provider to the benefit of our customers, suppliers, employees and the communities in which we operate.

Job Description:

The Mechanical Engineer is responsible for assisting in providing innovative and cost-effective solutions requiring the development or sustaining of new or improved techniques, procedures or products. The Mechanical Engineer also assists in planning, conducting and evaluating approaches to meeting the project objectives in a timely fashion. Responsibilities: • Assist in identifying and organizing requirements. Apply relevant usability procedures and principles. • Analyze, design, develop, maintain products and assist in their commercialization. • Build prototypes, products and systems suitable for testing. Set up and run lab simulations. Design and implement tests, document results and develop customer presentations. Provide timely corrective actions on defects. • Produce analyses and mathematical models and draw design conclusions based on those. • Conduct or participate in technical reviews of requirements specifications, designs, code and other artifacts. Contribute to design standards and support design re-use. • Create and maintain product documentation. Provide support to field and customers through InTouch. Provide user training as required. • Assign, direct and review work of technicians and provide guidance to engineers. With seniority, mentor junior engineers. • Continually evaluate engineering approaches and risks. • Author technical reports, papers, articles, patents and presentations. Share expertise via Pacific and special interest groups. Expand informal network throughout the organization. • Keep abreast of novel technical concepts and markets. Adopt new practices readily to develop innovative and low-cost products. • Maintain familiarity with company technology, organization and business. • Comply with Sarbanes-Oxley requirements as defined in the risk control matrix.

Requirements:

• Ideally, HNC, HND or Engineering degree-qualified with at least 8-10 years’ experience in the oil and gas offshore industry.
• Detailed operational knowledge of oil and gas industry mechanical equipment and a sound knowledge of engineering, maintenance, and planning.
• Able to give timely guidance to management on the history and health of equipment such that major costs and outages are predicted, planned and budget approved.
• Diligent, hard-working, team player able to solicit help and co-operation from junior and senior colleagues, impartial and supportive of change
• Key focus of the Area is Downhole Tools • Experience with CAD Packages • Solidworks / AutoDesk / CATIA • For CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) & FEA (Finite Element Analysis) • You will need to be able to do Base Calculations / Complex Assembly / Understanding of Drawings • Minimum 5 years' experience