About the role

We are recruiting for a Rig Move Manager position for onshore drilling and workover operations.

Experience requirement: Candidates must have onshore drilling and/or workover experience relevant to the position. Candidates with both onshore and offshore experience are welcome; offshore-only experience does not meet the requirement.

Certification requirement: Relevant lifting, rigging, transport safety, and journey management training. TAPROOT training is preferred. IWCF/IADC certification is an advantage if the role also includes well-control responsibilities.

Job Purpose

Plan, coordinate, and execute onshore rig moves, mobilization, demobilization, and relocation safely and efficiently.

Key Responsibilities

- Develop rig-move plans, schedules, resource requirements, and execution procedures.
- Coordinate rig-down, dismantling, transportation, rig-up, and commissioning activities.
- Supervise rig-move crews, transport contractors, lifting teams, and subcontractors.
- Verify access roads, wellsite readiness, equipment condition, and transportation requirements.
- Ensure lifting plans, load securing, journey management, and risk assessments are reviewed and approved.
- Coordinate with client representatives, logistics, maintenance, and HSE teams.
- Monitor rig-move costs, delays, equipment damage, and operational readiness.
- Ensure compliance with applicable client requirements and company procedures.

Qualifications and Experience

- Proven experience managing onshore drilling/workover rig moves.
- Strong knowledge of rig-up/rig-down procedures, heavy transport, lifting operations, and logistics.
- Experience coordinating multiple contractors and remote wellsite operations.
- Relevant lifting, rigging, transport safety, and journey-management training.
- TAPROOT training preferred for incident investigation and root-cause analysis.
- IWCF/IADC certification is an advantage if the role also includes well-control responsibilities.

How to Apply

Please submit the following with your application to [email protected] :

- Updated CV showing job titles, rig types, onshore rig-move experience, and years of experience.
- Certificates for lifting, rigging, transport safety, and journey-management training.
- TAPROOT certificate/training evidence, where applicable.
- IWCF and/or IADC WellSharp certificates (level, discipline, expiry date), if you hold them.
- Other relevant qualifications.
- Your current location, availability/notice period, and salary expectations.
- Client experience and relevant references, where available.

Job Type: Full-time

Expected hours: 40.0 per week

Work Location: In person

📌 Rig Move Manager (Piacenza)
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