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4 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 experienced individual contributor who provides advanced technical and planning support for drilling operations. At the Lead Support Specialist (S4) level, the role owns team process and quality, cross-case patterns and process gaps, and drives team-level quality and efficiency. Mentors and coordinates the support team.

What this level does

Adapt reporting and cost-tracking procedures for unprecedented situations — new well types, unusual service arrangements or non-standard rig data feeds — where the standard templates do not fit
Act as working lead over data, reporting and materials-tracking support during multi-rig campaigns, distributing tasks and checking others' outputs
Manage procurement coordination for drilling materials and contracted services end to end, resolving delivery conflicts and vendor discrepancies that disrupt the well schedule
Reconstruct and validate incomplete or disputed drilling and cost records for audits, regulatory reviews or after-incident data requests
Resolve conflicts between field data, contractor records and cost systems, deciding how to represent the operation accurately when sources disagree

Knowledge applied: Extensive knowledge of drilling support procedures and their administration, enough to adapt them for unprecedented well types, data feeds and contractual arrangements.
Complexity & problem solving: Understands implications of data and cost discrepancies; recommends new solutions and resolves conflicts across field, contractor and cost sources.
Collaboration & interaction: Determines methods for new assignments; may informally guide and check the work of less-experienced support staff during campaigns.
Typical experience: 4–6 yrs; advanced 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 S4 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$97k

San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA$87k

Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV$80k

Boulder, CO$79k

Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA$79k

Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH$76k

Lexington Park, MD$74k

Trenton-Princeton, NJ$74k

Pay only — metro-level demand isn't in public data (it needs job postings). National median $58k; 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 S4 (S4 — Lead Support Specialist) from the levels around it — this level only. Every word is real canon for this profile.

Scope: Team process and quality
Autonomy: Works independently; owns improvements
Complexity: Cross-case patterns and process gaps
Impact: Team-level quality and efficiency
Decision rights: Owns process and quality decisions for the team
Leadership: Mentors and coordinates the support team

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

Promotion

The next rung from S4 is S5.

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
President of Drilling Operations	jf_drilling_operations::E4	$389,207†	confident0.06
Senior Manager, Drilling Operations	jf_drilling_operations::M4	$167,689†	confident0.06
Senior Drilling Engineer	jf_drilling_operations::P4	$109,466†	confident0.06
Senior Drilling Equipment Welder	jf_drilling_operations::S3	$49,566†	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

S4

jf_drilling_operations::S4

Advanced Drilling 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: 4 / 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 · S4review0.17

Field Maintenance · S4review0.17

Field Measurement · S4review0.17

Mining Operations · S4review0.17

Field Operations · S4review0.17

Marine Operations · S4review0.17

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)