drilling engineer

Job Zone

1. 1
2. 2
3. 3
4. 4
5. 5

Zone 4: Considerable Preparation Needed

Considerable preparation. Usually a bachelor's degree plus several years of work-related experience, knowledge, or training.

Job Zone is O*NET's rating of how much education, experience and training an occupation typically needs — a property of the work, not of anyone doing it.

Occupational interest profile

RICRealistic · Investigative · Conventional — the three strongest interests, in order

• R Realistic5.37
• I Investigative5.33
• C Conventional4.32
• E Enterprising3.04
• A Artistic1.92
• S Social1.78

RIASEC (Holland) interests on O*NET's 0–7 scale: what the work draws on, not what any individual prefers. Hover a row for what each dimension means.

Job Zone and interest data are borrowed from Petroleum Engineers (17-2171.00): in the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, its close O*NET match, and the best-ranked match that has them. ESCO doesn't publish them directly.

Typically associated skills

Essential (22)

ESCO's essential and optional tags describe how its taxonomy relates a skill to this occupation. They are not the essential functions of a job under the ADA, which an employer determines for its own role.

• address problems critically
• analyse drill engineering
• connect equipment to wellheads
• design drill programmes
• design well paths
• design well-head equipment
• ensure compliance with environmental legislation
• geology
• liaise with specialist contractors for well operations
• manage drilling contracts
• manage drilling team
• manage service contracts in the drilling industry
• monitor well costs
• monitor well operations
• monitor well safety
• plan oil wells
• prepare scientific reports
• prepare well data sheets
• restore natural environment after drilling proofs
• suggest well maintenance
• supervise staff
• troubleshoot