Kantori Professional (Drilling Performance Professional)

Are you a Performance Optimization Advisor interested in working in the oil and gas sector?
 

Are you seeking a challenging opportunity for your career growth?

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Baker Hughes is a leading global energy‑technology company operating in more than 120 countries. We deliver innovative solutions that make energy safer, cleaner, and more efficient across the entire value chain. Combining deep industrial expertise with advanced engineering and digital technologies, Baker Hughes supports energy production, transformation, and decarbonization while helping customers achieve better operational performance and sustainability outcomes.

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Kantori is Baker Hughes’ unified digital autonomous well construction solution that integrates artificial intelligence, physics‑based models, and real‑time analytics to optimize and automate the entire well construction lifecycle—from planning and execution to monitoring and performance improvement. By enabling data‑driven decision making, Kantori helps reduce Non‑Productive Time (NPT), Invisible Lost Time (ILT), and operational risk while improving Rate of Penetration (ROP), efficiency, and well quality.

As a Kantori Professional (Drilling Performance Professional), you will support remote drilling operations by monitoring system performance, analyzing drilling data, identifying optimization opportunities, and ensuring advisory tools provide accurate operational recommendations.

As a Kantori Professional (Drilling Performance Professional), you will be responsible for:

• Monitoring Kantori system performance, data quality, and connectivity to ensure reliable operation.

• Ensuring advisory tools including tripping/surge, hydraulics, hole cleaning, torque & drag, ROP, and vibration modules function correctly and provide accurate recommendations.

• Maintaining and updating live engineering data, including well geometry, operating limits, and operational constraints.

• Updating Intelligent Well Planning cases based on operational changes, including:

  • Pore pressure and ECD window revisions

  • BHA configuration or tool limitation changes

  • Updated WOB, RPM, flow‑rate, and ROP limits

• Preparing daily performance reports, KPI tracking, activity coding, and optimization event documentation.

• Highlighting operational trends and key findings during daily operational review meetings.

• Monitoring NOVOS system behavior, automated drilling sequences, and mode changes remotely.

• Identifying and reporting operational deviations, manual overrides, and inefficient practices.

• Providing regular updates to stakeholders through Microsoft Teams and other communication channels.

• Explaining advisor alerts, escalating issues and opportunities, and following up on actions with rig and engineering teams.

• Identifying drilling optimization opportunities, including:

  • Surge and swab risks during tripping

  • High ECD and hydraulic inefficiencies

  • Poor hole cleaning performance

  • Torque, drag, and friction issues

  • ROP inconsistencies and vibration risks

• Communicating operational recommendations and verifying field implementation.

• Performing Level 1 troubleshooting for platform access, visualization, and data feed issues.

• Escalating complex technical issues with proper documentation and supporting information.

Fuel your passion
 

To be successful in this role, you will:

• Hold a Bachelor’s degree from an accredited university or college, or possess a High School Diploma/GED with proven experience in the oil and gas industry.

• Bring relevant experience in Drilling Services operations.

• Demonstrate a strong understanding of drilling and completions optimization practices.

• Be proficient in troubleshooting and resolving basic software, computer, and network issues.

• Have experience working with large cross‑functional teams across multiple organizations.

• Possess excellent analytical and problem‑solving skills.

• Demonstrate strong communication and stakeholder‑management capabilities.

Work in a way that works for you

This role is based in Ploiesti, Romania and follows a fixed shift pattern:

• Two weeks on / two weeks off rotation

Working with us

At Baker Hughes, our people are at the heart of everything we do. We invest in the health and wellbeing of our workforce, develop leaders at every level, and foster an environment where individuals can bring their authentic selves to work while building rewarding careers.

Working for you

We reward those who embrace challenge and innovation. As part of Baker Hughes, you can expect:

• Work–life balance and wellbeing programs

• Comprehensive private medical care options

• Life insurance and disability programs

• Tailored financial programs

• Additional voluntary or elective benefits
  
  Job title - Field Operations Specialist - Remote Operations