Mechanical Engineer - Rotary Steerable Drilling
Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom
Working in Sustaining for D&M at Stonehouse Technology Center. Rotary Steerable Services - PowerDrive, Neosteer and other RSS tools.Day to day work includes: failure investigation and characterisation (RCA), tool development, CAD (Creo), FEA and CFD (Ansys), project management, communication with field location and documentation. Also some experience in use of Dataiku for Prognosis Health Management (PHM) with Machine Learning.Also experienced in DfX - including Design for Manufacturing, Design for Reliability etc.- Independently developed a Prognostic Health Monitor for an internal component using Dataiku/Python. Presented my approach at the European Drilling Engineers Association (DEA(e)) conference in Vienna- Designed and commercialised a “ruggedized” bearing upgrade allowing 70% resistance to radial and axial shock at high temperature, allowing for infiltration into a new basin and job capture for harsh drilling environments.