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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Energy Solutions Technical Operations Lead - **Company:** Nabors Industries Ltd. - **Location:** Houston, TX, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Business Process Management, Issue Tracking Systems, Requirements Management, System Testing, Data Management - **Published:** October 18, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=8e3592e7a657d99d ## About the Role * Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Controls Engineering, or a closely related technical field, or equivalent directly relevant experience. * 8+ years of progressive experience in field engineering, applications engineering, electrical or controls systems, technical service, product support, commissioning, or a closely related industrial technology role. * Demonstrated experience leading complex field execution, technical troubleshooting, deployment planning, system testing, technical documentation, and customer communication. * Working knowledge of industrial electrical systems, power distribution, controls, communications, technical drawings, installation, commissioning, and safe field execution. * Ability to translate customer and operational needs into clear technical requirements, deployment plans, test criteria, training, and prioritized product or process recommendations. * Demonstrated ability to provide functional leadership across teams and field resources without relying on direct reporting authority. * Ability and willingness to travel approximately 50%, including domestic and international customer, field, manufacturing, and business locations as required. * Valid driver license and ability to meet customer-site access and travel requirements. Preferred * Experience with drilling equipment, electrification products, PowerTAP applications, power systems, rig controls, automation, or comparable industrial technologies. * Experience supporting customer-facing technical sales, product demonstrations, technical proposals, field trials, commissioning, and post-deployment adoption. * Experience with structured requirements, process mapping, dashboards, issue tracking, root-cause analysis, acceptance testing, or product lifecycle tools. * Experience leading or coordinating multi-disciplinary field teams, contractors, suppliers, and customer stakeholders. * Experience training customers and technical teams and mentoring less experienced engineers, coordinators, or field personnel. * Professional working proficiency in Spanish or Portuguese is beneficial for international field support. ## Description Primary Skills: Technical Leadership * Solution Consulting * Customer Support * Cross-functional Coordination * Lead technical-operational planning and execution for PowerTAP, Illumic, and related Energy Solutions product deployments, upgrades, field trials, and lifecycle support. * Serve as the primary technical-operations contact for customers, Product Management, Engineering, Sales, Field Service, Operations, Quality, and Supply Chain during field execution. * Translate customer operating conditions, rig interfaces, electrical requirements, site constraints, and product limitations into practical deployment and support recommendations. * Provide functional direction to internal and third-party field resources during assigned deployments, troubleshooting activities, commissioning, and operational handoffs without direct supervisory authority. Field Deployment, Commissioning & Troubleshooting Primary Skills: Equipment Installation * Electrical Systems * System Testing * Technical Support * Lead site assessments, application reviews, configuration verification, installation readiness, energization planning, commissioning, and acceptance activities. * Lead on-site and remote troubleshooting of electrical, controls, communications, integration, and product-application issues; coordinate Engineering escalation and verify sustainable closure. * Develop or review commissioning checklists, test plans, acceptance criteria, field evidence, punch lists, and technical handoff packages. * Confirm that assigned work is executed in accordance with approved technical documentation, customer requirements, and applicable site-safety expectations; stop or escalate work when conditions are not acceptable. Training, Documentation & Lifecycle Support Primary Skills: Employee Training * Customer Onboarding * Project Documentation * Product Support * Develop and deliver role-appropriate training for customers, field technicians, service teams, sales partners, and internal stakeholders on product operation, safe work practices, troubleshooting, and new capabilities. * Lead customer onboarding and post-deployment follow-up to confirm user readiness, support ownership, documentation completion, and closure of open technical items. * Create and maintain application guides, installation and commissioning instructions, troubleshooting procedures, technical bulletins, training content, and customer-facing technical documentation. * Mentor less experienced engineers, coordinators, and field personnel through structured knowledge transfer, field coaching, and technical review. Operational Readiness, Performance & Product Improvement Primary Skills: Requirements Management * Performance Analysis * Business Process Management * Data Management * Assess fleet and site readiness, identify deployment risks and dependencies, and communicate required actions, owners, and due dates before mobilization or operational handoff. * Analyze service history, product usage, issue trends, field observations, customer feedback, and operating data to identify recurring risks, adoption barriers, and improvement priorities. * Elicit, document, validate, and prioritize field, customer, service, and business requirements for product enhancements, workflows, reporting, and support processes. * Maintain traceable technical decisions, requirements, test evidence, lessons learned, action items, and improvement recommendations; communicate status, risks, and business impact to accountable stakeholders.