Senior Drilling Supervisor
industrial_energy_operations › Drilling Operations · M2 — M2 — Manager II · Management
Senior on-site leader who directs drilling crews and first-line supervisors to keep rig operations safe, efficient, and on schedule.
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$110,455 USD
▲ +29% vs M1 on this ladder
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pay@2 · 2026-07
What this role is
Senior on-site leader who directs drilling crews and first-line supervisors to keep rig operations safe, efficient, and on schedule. At the Manager II (M2) level, the role owns an established team or sub-function, cross-project coordination and priorities, and drives group delivery and development. Manages a team; sometimes manages leads.
What this level does
- Leads multiple rig crews across shifts on a single rig, coordinating handovers and owning tactical drilling outcomes against the daily plan.
- Manages skilled drillers and junior floor leaders, resolving equipment and personnel issues within established practices without escalation.
- Coordinates cross-functionally with geologists and mud/cementing specialists to select drilling methods and adjust parameters for the formations encountered.
- Owns short-term rig performance against footage and safety targets, tracking drilling parameters and non-productive time.
- Applies well control including managed pressure and underbalanced drilling principles when directing the crew through complex hole sections.
- Knowledge applied
- Deep drilling operations knowledge including MPD/UBD well control; applies judgment within known factors across shifts.
- Complexity & problem solving
- Makes tactical judgments on drilling methods and equipment issues within a defined rig scope.
- Collaboration & interaction
- Cross-functional cooperation with geologists and fluids/cementing specialists.
- Typical experience
- 2–5 years in crew leadership or specialist drilling roles.
Skills at this level
- Drilling procedures and equipment operation
- — Applies thorough understanding of drilling procedures and safety protocols and the technical ability to operate and direct crews on a variety of drill rigs and related machinery.
- Well control including MPD/UBD principles
- — Directs crews through well control situations applying managed pressure drilling and underbalanced drilling principles during complex hole sections.
- Directional drilling
- — Guides BHA design, motor/RSS steering, and anti-collision decisions on the rig to keep the wellbore on the planned trajectory.
- Drilling fluids and cementing
- — Coordinates mud circulation and cementing programs with specialists, adjusting fluid parameters for the formations encountered during operations.
- Automated drilling systems and closed-loop controls
- — Adopts and supervises automated drilling systems and closed-loop controls as the technology upgrades the operator and crew skill set.
- Drilling cost and budget control
- — Controls drilling expenditures against budgeted cost while optimizing rig- and service-contract utilization to deliver wells on time and within budget.
- Crew leadership and rig-floor safety
- — Manages rig crews across shifts with a commitment to safety, directing personnel through the complexities of drilling operations and enforcing HSE compliance.
- Drilling logs and operations reporting
- — Ensures accurate capture of drilling logs — depth, drilling speed, and geological formations encountered — to inform operational decisions.
- Wellbore trajectory and feasibility planning
- — Conducts feasibility studies and reconciles wellbore trajectory designs with field-executed drilling to optimize operations.
- Lessons learned and standardization
- — Captures and disseminates REX and postmortem analysis, organizes debriefings, and drives standardization within and across affiliates.
- Cross-functional drilling coordination
- — Works with geologists and drilling specialists to determine the best drilling methods and locations for the program.
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