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Weatherford

•	Provided expertise for Geoscience, research and development team in term of Imaging and Geological applications. 
•	Built advanced answer products and introduce it to internal sales and external clients.
•	Develop brochure and identify sales strategy for advanced integrated solutions. 
•	Built and presented geology business strategy and answer products for internal stake holders. 
•	Interact with different team members when required as well as with experts in operations and R&D for wireline, LWD, SLS and Labs.
•	Work closely with the petrophysical software team to define the requirements for new software platform. Provide guidance on design specifications, workflow and functionalities.
•	Identify and take action on hardware and software issues, new technologies and techniques, future areas of interest for development.
•	Play an active leading role in Automated & Value Added Image Analysis and the feasibility studies.
•	Initiate the development of quantitative analysis of boundaries, fractures, and textures analysis
•	Provide technical expertise to WFT petroleum consulting teams in all regions. 
•	Identify techniques to integrate various logging and lab measurements to generate comprehensive answer products.
•	Document the processes, workflow and results and communicate them internally and externally as required through training seminars and courses.
•	Participate in internal and external forums and publicize new techniques and technology.
•	Provide software training for geological applications for Petroleum consulting analysts. 
•	Work as part of a multi-disciplinary team to maximize the benefits to the company customers 
•	Coaching a new hired geologists and building their professional development career

Weatherford has one of the worst procurements processes I have ever been involved in.  it is cumbersome, frustrating, inconsistent and lacks focus on customer service.  This leaves the employees not management, and not sales to deal with customer dissatisfaction and constant excuses as to why we do not have or cannot get the product they need until we lose that contract and face layoffs.  Weatherford is notorious for either deferring merits, cutting merits, or outright denying merits.  This was the case in Q2 2025 when the company deferred employee raises into Q3 as well as slashing those raises to generate over 1.2 billion dollars' worth of cashflow to pay dividends to share holder (CEO has a salary of over 14 mil and is one of the largest individual shareholders of Weatherford stock).  It was a little disheartening to see that level of greed when the CEO has a median salary over 300 percent than the work force.  as a professional I see no future with this company, there are no career advancement opportunities as anything above my current level is farmed out when an opening is made.  If you want a place to work with an okay wage, and good work/life balance and you have no desire for career development then this might not be such a bad place.  if you have a background in supply management and/or procurement you will find this a very difficult place to work at. 

When I started back in 2011 this was a great place to work for, great salary, good work environment, management was very supportive and there was free lunches and events all year long.

Since the down turn in the oil industry and the layers and layers of cuts it became a difficult place to work.

Employees are required to wear multiple hats and fill in for every additional layoff, this leads to over work and a very high stress environment.  Due to lack of employees for work there is very little if any accountability from the top down.

Corporate says all the right things and have plans and ideas to fix it but it does not flow down to management.  Employee are left to find was of getting job done with no support.

If you care about the quality of your work and accountability from other teams to take care of tickets you assign then this is not the place for you to work.  You will just get frustrated and stressed out about the situation like I did.

After 7 years I moved on to a smaller family owned business and got away from that huge corporate structure, best thing I ever did.

Although I love most of the people I worked with and was very loyal to the company, there are many inherent problems at this company that never seem to end. It's not very stable-cutbacks, cutbacks, and more cutbacks. Layoffs, layoffs, and more layoffs. Over and over and over and over, They don't care about your loyalty or dedication or hard work-when they decide they need to cut your position due to the never ending Reduction in Force that managers are required to accommodate(RIFs) -they will attempt to do it without paying severance by starting lies and false rumors about you, Soon, even though you have the highest ratings for many many years in your appraisals and a solid reputation and work history you will find that you have been labelled a lazy incompetent poor worker in their attempt to fire you and not pay severance. They don't care about ruining lives of people that dedicated themselves to the company for many  years. I've heard this same story over and over from many people that I know who have worked or still work at Weatherford. Do not think it wont happen to you or can't happen to you- it will happen to you!

A typical day started between at 5 am with a pre-trip vehical inspection. I would then register the trip with Journey Management and would include the rout,road conditions,numbers of passsengers, E.T.A. and contact information. Then I would make sure my log book was up to date and all other paperwork was in order to make the trip safely. I would then start the commute that ranged from 15 minutes to 1.5 hours to location usually deep in the back country.

6:30 am Safety meeting/crew change at what time I would review witht the Jr. Night Shift Supervisor the operations that went on overnight. Discuss any changes in operations or safety concerns that the crew may have. Checking all reporting for errors, ensuring the customers need were met and reports were sent in on time.

7:30 am Safety meeting with all other 3rd part crews on location. At this time we would discuss the daily activities to be performed. All safety issues are reviewed and documented.

8:00 am General operation proceed where I would lead/train my crew in all aspects of well control in order to complete the task at hand.

6:30 pm Safety meeting/crew change.

My typical work day consisted of starting at 730 in the morning holding daily safety meetings with staff discussing daily work activities and up coming jobs, 

I did learn a lot with Weatherford, they are a very safety orientated company to work for lots of training is provided and the courses that provide are very useful no matter where or what you plan on doing in the future

Upper management do provide lots of mentorship witch is very helpful but being a big company you are just another body, job security is a problem as it seemed they do go through office personal very often rather it be they don't fit in with all the company's politics or they get let go due to changing in company directions, 

My co workers were great people everyone always got along and shared stories 

The hardest part of the job was seeing personal getting terminated over financial reasons, it was a family felt company 

The most enjoyable part of the job was the feeling of helping someone out and completing tasks that at first felt unreachable

During my time at Weatherford I had some good times and bad. The first few weeks were full of training and safety orientation and quite boring, but the start of most jobs are. After that I spent a couple of weeks in the shop with the other new guys learning and maintaining equipment. I enjoyed it very much and liked the people I worked with, but it slowly started to go downhill. Once I got in the field I worked with a racist crew and requested to be placed with another one but the manager refused me and said "You go where I say you go" and "I do not believe they are racist since I am friends with them". This is when I realized the company had severe favoritism and I decided to quit. If you enjoy hard work qnd don't care about the management then this is the perfect company for you. (I had hours of discussions with the trainers about the management system and they said it was like this for the past couple of years, so my desicion to quiy was not based off 1 event)

Overall not a bad place Weatherford has treated me fairly but after a few cut backs I was some what un happy with some changes that were made but buisness is buisness and have to do what you can to make a buisness profitable. 
Lots of training involved with switchign accoutning systems ect. 
Co-workers felt like family as soon as I started I felt welcome in the company from a small office to the big towers in Calgary everyone welcomed me 
Hardest part of the job was when I had to shut down my base in Weyburn and havign to not say anything to my staff for a few months prior was extreamly hard and stressfull on me but again buisness is buisness and I had to continue operating the base up to the day we shut down
Now an assistant manager and I am not very happy with my role becasue of the lack of communication. as an assistant manager I am not informed on changes until last minute or I find out from other staff below me something I feel I should be included on in a manager position.

What I do on a daily basis:
Enter travel document and inspections sheets into the database and inventory.
Ship stators and rotors.
Set up part numbers.
Close work orders.
Print work orders and drawings.
File and organize all documents.
Prepare item to be sent and recalled from document management company.
Keep office essentials in stock.
Prepare invoices.

Weatherford has taught me to be more thorough and has definitly improved my focus and multitasking abilities.
As well as the importance of a deadline, and that being specific is crucial especially when asking a question.

Management is good, but I wish they would try to boost moral by giving praise where deserved.

The people I work with are one of the best things about my job because they are caring and giving and over the time I've worked here we have become a little family.

My job can be demanding and requires 100% effort and when someone wants you complete a task they can be impatient. 

Each day is a new accomplishment with Weatherford, and everyday I learn something new.

I spent nearly 15 years with Weatherford.  Great company to start with, good salary and benefits.  In recent years, some questionable people (history of fraud, etc.) have been placed in management roles that have led to a significant decline in the culture.  Weatherford preaches ethics but is content with hiring conceited fools with the morals of a scoundrel. These people have no interest in working along side their colleagues. Preferring, instead, to build their own empire and antagonize other teams. Productivity suffers with this lack of team work. Add to this the struggles of a company with billions in debt and it makes for a VERY toxic work environment.  Ending Christmas parties, golf tournaments, social events just lowered morale even more.  I didn't want to leave behind so many of the good colleagues I work with - the folks on the ground getting the work done.  But their work is overshadowed by politics and some lousy management.

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Field engineer 4 salaries reported	$83,000 per year
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Line operator 1 salary reported	$52,000 per year
Assembler 2 salaries reported	$20.75 per hour

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