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2 of 8

Track

Support

Family rungs priced

S1 · S2 · S3 · S4 · S5

47-0000

industrial_energy_operations

Coordinates

3 / 4 spaces

pay@2 · 2026-07

What this role is

An entry-level technician building skills in drilling engineering support, equipment maintenance, and operational planning tasks. At the Support Specialist (S2) level, the role owns a defined queue or customer set, standard issues within known procedures, and drives customer satisfaction for own queue. None.

What this level does

Prepare complete daily drilling reports for each well — progress, operational parameters, materials consumed and daily costs — pulling from multiple field sources and reconciling discrepancies before submission
Track daily costs and budgets against expenditure proposals across several wells, escalating variances that fall outside expected ranges
Process routine regulatory submissions and permit paperwork, following the checklist and flagging items needing engineer sign-off
Coordinate ordering and delivery timing of standard drilling materials and equipment so they arrive on schedule for the well program
Maintain the well data-sheet library and the Pason WellView records, updating entries as operations proceed through the day

Knowledge applied: Broad knowledge of drilling-report and cost-tracking procedures; carries out multi-step tasks like compiling daily reports and reconciling deliveries against orders.
Complexity & problem solving: Semi-routine tasks; recognizes when field data needs a second look and deviates from routine to reconcile discrepancies.
Collaboration & interaction: Follows established procedures with instruction on new tasks; routine coordination with field crews, procurement and engineers on deadlines and priorities.
Typical experience: 1–2 yrs; some related drilling-support experience.

Skills at this level

Drilling Data Capture and Logging: — Records operational parameters, drill logs and rock-sample details into standard well data sheets and the Pason WellView field system, keeping entries current as rig operations proceed through the day.
Daily Drilling Report Preparation: — Compiles per-well daily reports covering drilling progress, parameters, materials consumed and costs, reconciling figures from field tickets and multiple sources before submission.
Cost and AFE Tracking: — Enters and tracks daily drilling costs against expenditure proposals (AFEs), tracing variances back to service-company invoices and field tickets to explain discrepancies.
Regulatory Submission Processing: — Prepares and submits drilling regulatory paperwork and end-of-well data packages, determining which records apply and routing items needing engineer sign-off.
Drilling Materials Procurement Coordination: — Coordinates ordering, delivery timing and receipt verification of drilling materials and contracted services so the well program is supplied on schedule, resolving vendor and delivery discrepancies.
Service Proposal Evaluation Support: — Reviews service-company proposals and quotes against standard rate sheets and prior jobs, summarizing options and cost implications for the engineering team.
Drilling Data Reconciliation: — Investigates inconsistencies between field data, contractor records and cost systems, deciding how to accurately represent the operation when sources disagree.
Pason WellView Administration: — Maintains and structures records in the Pason WellView field solution, adapting the setup for non-standard rig data feeds and validating incomplete entries for audits and reviews.
Rig Safety and Environmental Record-Keeping: — Applies prescribed rig-site safety and environmental logging procedures when handling and documenting samples, consumables and operational events.
Drilling Support Procedure Development: — Creates and documents standardized data-capture, reporting and cost-tracking procedures for the drilling support group and guides peers in applying them.

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Pay across the ladder

Drilling Operations — median with , by . Real canon data.

National-base pricing — this family's function differential is pending review, so dollar levels are not function-adjusted (level-over-level % is unaffected).

Pay figures are modeled estimates from our market equation — level-differentiated, with honest-wide bands. They refresh as new leveling evidence lands; treat per-role dollars as directional.

Demand — is the field growing, or just turning over?

SOC 47-0000 · national

Employment growth 2019–2024, BLS OEWSobserved

-23.1%Roustabouts, Oil and Gas · United States

58,930 → 45,330 jobs

4,300 openings / year, split into:

replacement / exits 4,185

Growth — new jobs (3%)Exits — backfill (97%)

3% of hiring here is genuine expansion; the rest backfills people who move on.

Projected growth 2024–34 expanding: +2.5%
Growth share of hiring: 3%
Exit / retention pressure high: 97%
Openings / year: 4,300

Two quantities, kept apart: observed = employment growth differenced from two BLS OEWS vintages (what already happened); projected = BLS Employment Projections 2024–34, openings decomposed into growth + exits (growth derived from projected employment change). Neither is a pay figure.

Where this role sits — growth vs. pay

level S2 held

Demand axis is projected growth (not raw openings — that just measures churn). A curated, de-duplicated set of recognizable occupations held at this level; this role is highlighted.

Where it pays — by metro

OEWS metro median

San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA$74k

San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA$66k

Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV$61k

Boulder, CO$60k

Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA$60k

Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH$58k

Lexington Park, MD$56k

Trenton-Princeton, NJ$56k

Pay only — metro-level demand isn't in public data (it needs job postings). National median $44k; the demand-cube initiative will add growth-by-metro.

What changes across the ladder

Level-distinction canon isn't available for the adjacent levels of this profile yet.

Level differentiators

What separates S2 (S2 — Support Specialist) from the levels around it — this level only. Every word is real canon for this profile.

Scope: A defined queue or customer set
Autonomy: General supervision; handles standard cases independently
Complexity: Standard issues within known procedures
Impact: Customer satisfaction for own queue
Decision rights: Resolves standard cases; escalates complex
Leadership: None

Full level-by-level matrix (side by side across the ladder) lives on the Ladder drill-down — not here.

Promotion

The next rung from S2 is S3.

Performance criteria for this profile render in the assessment kit →

People also watch

Nearest coordinate neighbors — same , same level. Each row's (confident / review / no match) comes from its — computed, not curated.

Profile	Key	Median	Δ structural
SVP of Drilling Operations	jf_drilling_operations::E2	$322,728†	confident0.06
Senior Drilling Supervisor	jf_drilling_operations::M2	$110,455†	confident0.06
Drilling Engineer	jf_drilling_operations::P2	$72,357†	confident0.06
Drilling Operations Support Technician	jf_drilling_operations::S1	$37,323†	confident0.06

†National-base pricing — this family's function differential is pending review, so the dollar level is not function-adjusted.

Capability cluster

O*NET 47-5071

Core to this role. Click any element with an ⓘ for its O*NET definition. A job-specific capability model (SkillFrame) will sharpen this and add worked examples.

The Job Swatch

S2

jf_drilling_operations::S2

Drilling Operations Support Technician

Drilling Operations

The swatch is JobFrame's core primitive: a hueset deterministically by the role's superfunction, the profileKey as its color code, the level ladder, and a content fingerprint. Two swatches that look alike are alike.

Because every role carries computable coordinates, similarity, leveling, and pricing become measurable instead of arguable— the whole point of "Pantone for jobs."

Structural

structural@1

Where it sits— position in the work taxonomy + level (weighted Gower, level > function > focus).

Track: S
Superfunction: industrial_energy_operations
Function: field_operations
Family: drilling_operations
Universal level: 2 / 8

Content

content@2

What it's about— a fingerprint over the role's tasks & capabilities.

Two roles can sit far apart structurally yet be close in content — that gap is itself a signal.

3-state matching

How any two swatches compare — a real distance in coordinate space, resolved to a calibrated verdict (never a fake "94% match").

Battery Storage Operations · S2review0.17

Field Maintenance · S2review0.17

Field Measurement · S2review0.17

Mining Operations · S2review0.17

Field Operations · S2review0.17

Marine Operations · S2review0.17

Editions — frozen & versioned

structural@1live

Released 2026-06-17

content@2live

Released 2026-07-28

pay@2live

Released 2026-07-02

semantic@1live

Released 2026-07-02

Coordinates belong to a frozen, versioned edition — a coordinate computed today still means the same thing next quarter. Re-fitting issues a new edition, so comparisons are never silently redefined.

How to read this profile

Every number here is traceable — to a named source, a stated method, and an as-of date — and each value is labeled by how we know it: observed from data, computed by a model, projected forward, or governed canon. Nothing is a black box, and nothing is invented to fill a gap.

Where every number comes from

What	Source & method	Edition	State
Median pay + range	JobFrame pay equation (function base × family multiplier × level × focus differential)	pay@2	computed
Pay across the ladder	Same equation applied at each universal level	pay@2	computed
Demand — growth & openings	BLS Employment Projections; openings decomposed into growth + exits	EP 2024–34	projected
Pay by metro	BLS OEWS metropolitan medians	OEWS 2024	observed
Level distinctions	JobFrame universal-level canon (scope · autonomy · complexity · impact · decision rights · leadership)	canon	canon
Capability cluster	O*NET Knowledge / Skills / Abilities	O*NET 47-5071	computed
Coordinates	JobFrame coordinate system — structural (weighted Gower) + content fingerprint	structural@1 · content@2 · pay@2 · semantic@1	computed
Related roles	Nearest neighbors in the structural coordinate space	structural@1	computed

The principles behind the numbers

Ranges, not false precision

Pay is P10 · median · P90, never a single misleading number.

Three honest states, never a fake %

Role matches resolve to confident / review / no-match — a calibrated verdict, not a made-up percentage.

Provenance on every value

Each number carries whether it's observed, computed, projected, or canon — so you always know how much to lean on it.

Gaps shown as gaps

When a figure isn't available at the grain you need, we say so — we don't fabricate a number to fill the cell.

Frozen, versioned editions

Pay and coordinate editions are pinned, so a comparison you make today still means the same thing next quarter.

Privacy by min-N

Any aggregate over people is suppressed below a minimum count, so no individual is identifiable.

Freshness

As of2026-07-30Editioncanon-v2@2.1.0-completeSourcecanon-v2 cell + salary-benchmark (model)