Thomas Hjertaas

Completion engineer

Rogaland, Norway

About

Experience

  • Senior Completion Engineer at Aker Solutions

  • Control system commissioning engineer at NOV

    Joined NOV as a consultant to support commissioning on site in Singapore on five Noble jackups. Lead engineer and coordinator for various NOV drilling systems products such as Cyberbase, HMI, PLC, databases, virtual server, network.

  • Senior Project engineer at NOV

    Worked in the aftermarket department delivering upgrade projects to rigs in operation. Job entails control system development, planning, project handover, documentation and testing. Software programming configuration in PLC (Siemens Step7). Part of NOV second line support team.

  • Systemforvalter/IKT-konsulent at Helse Vest IKT

    Act as middleman between hospital and system supplier. Administrate various IKT disciplines such as firewall, user/role access, testing, upgrade. Part of project team, coordinate in DevOps design, planning, system integrations, technical solutions with supplier and project.

  • Sales engineer at NOV

    Liaise with customer to find solutions, enhancements and updates to their drilling rig. Analyse risk, cost and price to create quote. Plan scope of work with engineers and follow up with project manager.

  • SAS Developer at SIEMENS Oil, Gas & Marine

    Upgrade of Safety & Automation Systems (SAS) (PCS7 and WinCC) for oil and gas processing plants. Responsible for outsourcing by assigning, coordinating and verifying work tasks to the Mumbai office.

  • Control system engineer at National Oilwell Varco

    Various roles within Human Machine Interface (HMI) and automation (PLC) in both new rigs and upgrades. Service engineer travelling to shipyards and offshore for commissioning and service. Responsible for the HMI software in NOV. Technical lead in projects. Coordinating engineers of different disciplines. Held training courses for both customers (end-users) and internal.