The posting
Job Description
PURPOSE & IMPACT
Leads Managed Pressure Drilling and Tubular Running Services field operations through supervisors and senior technical personnel, with accountability for safe execution, customer performance, workforce capability, asset readiness, financial discipline, and consistent operating standards across assigned operations. The role aligns MPD and TRS priorities, allocates shared resources, develops leaders, governs performance and risk, and partners with Product Line, geomarket, customers, and functional teams to improve service quality, profitability, utilization, and sustainable growth.
Responsibilities
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
Essential functions should be organized by the core skill domains required for the role. Each function should describe a measurable outcome that draws on the identified skills.
MPD/TRS Operations Governance, HSE & Service Quality
Primary Skills: Operations Management • Workplace Safety • Risk Assessment • Performance Measurement
- Lead MPD and TRS operating performance through accountable supervisors and technical leaders, establishing decision rights, escalation thresholds, operating reviews, and clear expectations for safe, reliable, and responsive field execution.
- Govern compliance with Nabors and customer HSE, quality, technical, and operational requirements across MPD pressure-control activities and TRS rig-up, equipment-operation, casing-running, and service-delivery activities.
- Sponsor reviews of material incidents, non-productive time, equipment failures, non-conformances, and recurring service-quality issues; assign corrective actions and verify closure and organizational learning.
Workforce, Asset & Financial Management
Primary Skills: Workforce Management • Asset Management • Cost Management • Forecast Management
- Develop integrated MPD and TRS staffing, succession, competency, scheduling, cross-training, and recruiting plans that provide qualified coverage for forecast and active work.
- Direct equipment readiness, allocation, maintenance, inspection, recertification, inventory, and logistics priorities for MPD and TRS assets in partnership with Product Line, maintenance, supply chain, engineering, and quality teams.
- Prepare and manage operating forecasts, budgets, cost controls, utilization plans, and performance reviews; address variances and align spending and capacity with customer commitments and business priorities.
Customer, Product Line & Growth Leadership
Primary Skills: Customer Management • Project Leadership • Stakeholder Management • Business Development and Growth
- Serve as the management-level point of contact for key customers and material escalations across MPD and TRS, aligning technical, operational, commercial, and service-recovery actions with documented commitments.
- Act as the operating liaison among Product Line leadership, geomarket teams, field operations, sales, HSE, quality, finance, supply chain, asset management, training, and technical support.
- Support opportunity qualification, bids, field trials, technology adoption, operating-model decisions, and internal-versus-third-party capacity strategies that expand dependable, differentiated, and profitable MPD/TRS services.
NON-ESSENTIAL (ADDITIONAL) FUNCTIONS
- Represent MPD/TRS operations in customer reviews, business planning, technology roadmaps, audits, and cross-functional leadership forums.
- Sponsor lessons learned, case studies, operating standards, training content, and process-improvement initiatives that strengthen shared MPD/TRS capability.
- Support strategic proposals, investment cases, organizational design, vendor reviews, integration planning, and special projects aligned with Integra priorities.
CORE SKILLS PROFILE
Proficiency Scale: Foundational → Developing → Proficient → Advanced → Expert
Skill
Proficiency
Application in Role
Operations Management
Advanced
Governs MPD and TRS field performance through supervisors and technical leaders across assigned customers, projects, or areas.
Workplace Safety
Advanced
Sets expectations for risk control, operating assurance, incident learning, and corrective-action closure across both product lines.
Workforce Management
Advanced
Builds integrated staffing, succession, competency, cross-training, recruiting, and deployment plans for MPD and TRS demand.
Asset Management
Advanced
Directs readiness, utilization, allocation, maintenance, inspection, recertification, and lifecycle priorities for field assets.
Cost Management
Advanced
Manages budgets, forecasts, cost controls, variances, and resource decisions affecting combined operating performance.
Performance Measurement
Advanced
Uses HSE, NPT, quality, utilization, customer, financial, and operational measures to direct priorities and recovery plans.
Customer Management
Advanced
Builds management-level relationships and leads alignment on performance, commitments, service recovery, and escalations.
Project Leadership
Advanced
Directs complex work across MPD, TRS, Product Line, geomarket, HSE, quality, supply chain, finance, and commercial teams.
Stakeholder Management
Advanced
Aligns Product Line, geomarket, field operations, customers, vendors, and functional partners around operating decisions.
Operational Improvement
Advanced
Sponsors standardization, lessons learned, workflow improvements, and measurable reliability, quality, or efficiency gains.
Vendor Management
Proficient
Manages third-party performance for availability, lead time, cost, quality, reliability, and service responsiveness.
Business Development and Growth
Proficient
Supports opportunity qualification, bid strategy, technology adoption, customer solutions, and disciplined growth planning.
Qualifications
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Business, Operations Management, or a related discipline; extensive relevant oilfield-services leadership experience may be considered where permitted by company requirements.
- Ten or more years of progressive oil and gas, drilling solutions, or field operations experience, including substantial experience in Managed Pressure Drilling, Tubular Running Services, or closely related drilling and completion services.
- Five or more years leading supervisors, senior technical personnel, or multidisciplinary operating teams with accountability for safety, service quality, staffing, assets, customer outcomes, and operating performance.
- Demonstrated experience with resource planning, budgeting and cost control, operational KPIs, incident and service-quality governance, customer escalation, equipment readiness, and cross-functional execution.
- Valid driver’s license and ability to meet company and customer requirements for domestic and international travel.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
The following are valued but not required. Candidates demonstrating equivalent skills through alternative pathways may be considered.
- Master’s degree in Engineering, Business, or a related discipline.
- Direct operating experience in both Managed Pressure Drilling and Tubular Running Services.
- Recognized well control certification or formal training in finance, project management, asset management, or continuous improvement.
- Experience managing multi-customer or multi-location operations through accountable supervisors or managers in a matrixed organization.
- Experience supporting technology adoption, capital planning, commercial proposals, vendor strategy, and profitable growth initiatives.
PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS & WORKING CONDITIONS
Work is performed primarily in an office environment with regular visits to yards, shops, customer locations, and remote wellsites supporting MPD and TRS operations. Domestic travel and occasional international travel are required based on operating and customer needs. The role requires schedule flexibility and availability for material operational escalations outside normal business hours. Site visits may involve weather, noise, uneven surfaces, moving equipment, pressure-control systems, tubular-handling equipment, and required PPE. The employee must be able to move safely around operational locations, use stairs and access platforms, and handle routine materials within established safe-lifting practices. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals to perform the essential functions.
About Us
Nabors is a leading provider of advanced technology for the energy industry. With operations in about 20 countries, Nabors has established a global network of people, technology and equipment to deploy solutions that deliver safe, efficient and responsible hydrocarbon production. By leveraging its core competencies, particularly in drilling, engineering, automation, data science and manufacturing, Nabors aims to innovate the future of energy and enable the transition to a lower carbon world.
Equal Opportunity Employer
Nabors is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants and prohibiting discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, religion, age, color, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws. This applies to all terms and conditions of employment including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leave of absence, compensation, and training. To learn more about our Fair Employment practices, please refer to the Nabors Code of Conduct.
