Lead Reservoir Engineer / Scotland

Our client, an oil and gas operator, requires a Lead Reservoir Engineer to join the team on a contract basis
Purpose of Role:

• Reservoir Engineer within the Subsurface & Resource Maturation team
• Support company level forecasting processes
• Track corporate Reserves
• Support the annual CPR process, including QC of shared subsurface characterisations
• Communicate details of forecasts, Reserves and project maturation plans, to senior management
• Support opportunity hopper products & activities
• Supporting corporate activities as required
• Sets department goals and processes to achieve them
• Creates vision/purpose within team
• Mentor, develop and lead more junior subsurface staff

Areas of Accountability, Responsibility and Competence:

• Responsible for presentation and review of consolidated forecasts, with QC of same
• Understanding/learning the principles of PRMS and helping apply these for company assessments
• Support prioritisation of opportunities for valuation and other portfolio management activity
• Any reasonable duty as per instruction by your manager

Critical Skills, Qualifications, Experience, etc:

Core Technical Experience
• Well-developed technical skill set
• The ability to work influentially and respectfully with many multi-disciplinary teams
• Sound working knowledge of industry software packages
• Experience of production forecasting for business planning & Reserves purposes
• Experience of presenting to senior management preferred
• Data analytics skills would be an advantage
• Broad understanding of core aspects of reservoir engineering e.g. field development, simulation, material balance, pressure transient analysis, fluid properties, decline curve analysis, reserve evaluations.

Qualifications
• MSc in reservoir/petroleum engineering or a related subject.

Personal Characteristics
• Displays integrity through open communication and looks for opportunities to communicate to build and maintain relationships
• Considers a range of perspectives, responding respectfully to each
• Provides constructive, timely and highly effective feedback to a range of colleagues.
• Generously invests in coaching others and makes suggestion for the development of others
• Takes accountability for the success of both their own and others’ projects, considering and integrating a wide range of information and views in making decisions. Recognises the importance of framing and strong multi-disciplinary narratives, challenging others’ thinking
• Leads in building trust with all colleagues, recognising and developing different aspects which lead to team success including diversity, collaboration, team spirit and commitment
• Adept at using the expertise and skills of others to achieve outstanding results, inspiring and directing others within the teams they lead, and coordinating across teams to share best practice and learnings
• Takes the lead in implementing change.
• Where conflict might emerge, actively manages the situation. Steers conversations away from conflict and towards constructive disagreement.
• Possesses a wide range of effective problem-solving techniques. Used by others to solve problems
• Consistently completes tasks on time and to a high standard and continually looks beyond their own workload to consider how the best results can be achieved
• Promotes Core Values and works actively to create and sustain a positive culture that embodies those values and acts when they see the Values and Principles being overlooked.