Team Recruitment

Job Description

We are recruiting a Subsurface Lead for our client in Aberdeen City Centre.

This is a full time, staff vacancy.

This is a leadership role within the IM Department, reporting to the Information Centre Team Leader.

The Subsurface Lead will be responsible for all subsurface information management activities, including oversight of the Management of Well Information Project (MOWI) and provide line-management to identified Information Management personnel. They will work with the Information Centre Team Leader to develop a highly performing team, striving for ‘world class’ IM performance across all scopes.

The Subsurface Lead will promote a culture of sharing best practices and lessons learned, seeking innovation and learning both internally and externally, in order to continuously improve process efficiencies for MOWI project and our IM service.

This role is responsible for supporting regulatory compliance and managing relationships with project, business areas and stakeholders and liaise with business teams in defining, capturing and managing project deliverables and IM services.

Key Responsibilities

Leadership:

• Responsible for oversight of the delivery of MOWI project, plus joint responsibility for the overall success of all DCWS and G&G related activities, working with the wider team to ensure campaigns and activities are executed safely, within budget and on schedule.
• Demonstrate excellent stakeholder engagement by working together with the DCWS and G&G teams to ensure all IM processes and interfaces are delivering IM best practice and meeting the needs of the leaders and their teams.
• Work together with contractors, the regulator and all company functions to promote and ensure a cohesive and collaborative team environment in which to deliver successful and efficient IM support.
• Line manage allocated IM resources and work with the Information Centre Team Leader to support development of personnel within the IM department.
• Ensure internal and external compliance with company processes and compliance with the regulatory processes from the NSTA.
• Develop and maintain a positive culture, including promoting the company Mission Statement and Core Values, maintaining an inclusive environment where everyone can thrive and driving continuous improvement.
• Ensure regulatory compliance (NSTA) by:
• Coordinating the delivery of Section 34 notices and other requests as per Energy Act 2016 by working with the Information and Samples Coordinator and appropriate SMEs
• Project lead license relinquishments by working with the ISC to ensure Information and Samples Plans are written and executed to required timelines; ensure cross functional collaboration with all areas of business that have reportable data: Well data, seismic data, infrastructure and pipelines, production data, field data
• Track and hold accountable all SMEs with reportable data in support of ISPs or requests from the NSTA for information.
• Implement, develop and define procedures and specifications to ensure IM best practice is implemented.
• Manage relationships with project, business areas and stakeholders and liaise with business teams in defining, capturing and managing project deliverables and IM services.
• Perform a Safety Leadership role on project(s), ensuring a cohesive approach to safety and committing to: no harm to people and no adverse impact to the environment.
• Demonstrate an exemplary safety leadership standard, and provide clear direction on SHE expectations by communicating effectively.
• Competency: support the team in compliance with the competency strategy.
• Support the communication of lessons learned from incidents, and audit findings.
• MOWI Project and Subsurface Focus:
• Together with the MOWI Project Leader, take accountability for successful delivery of MOWI Project and all IM services for DCWS and G&G and joint accountability for the success of all International Division G&G and DCWS projects and activities.
• Research, identify and implement processes to deliver time, cost and quality improvements and support implementation of technical solutions.
• Ensure effective communication with project team, stakeholders and senior management team.
• For assigned project(s):
• Ensure all projects are lead through IM best practice processes including annual budgeting, effective cost reporting, effective and robust quality management, risk management, overall project planning & milestones, leads scenario planning, compile resource profiles, agree project objectives and metrics, maintain robust management of change, ensure an effective evaluate phase(s) is conducted so learnings can be taken forward.
• Responsible for maintaining oversight of the scopes of the work undertaken by DCWS and G&G departments, ensuring they are collectively being delivered to the quality and success criteria and that the team are working together in an effective manner.
• Establish active and consistent risk (threat and opportunity) management throughout all phases of supported projects and work scopes.
• Takes an overview of relationship management for the project, for example, works with the regulator, technical leads, working with DCWS in support of IM processes.
• Ensure effective and value-adding reporting is in place, ensuring reporting metrics and dashboards accurately reflect project status and serves to escalate risks appropriately.
• Take accountability for resource plans and together with the MOWI Project Leader, define subsequent budgets for MOWI Project and other IM scopes of work related to subsurface and well data management.
• For all IM activities:
• Support the Information Centre Team Leader with compilation of the annual department budget and have responsibility for own lines therein.
• Share in the team accountability for overall department performance.
• Implement and promote a culture of process and cost efficiency:
• Be open-minded and inquisitive to developments in techniques, commercial models and technologies etc applicable to IM.
• Take a leading role in maintaining and building effective external interfaces, including those with regulators, industry bodies, supply chain members and other operators.
• Be open to collaborative opportunities externally and internally.
• Work closely with the team to create an environment where everyone can perform to their best, enhancing the delivery of IM and creating value for the company.

Desired Qualities / Qualifications

• Experience of managing teams and working collaboratively with external parties.
• Knowledge of subsurface and well data sets.
• Demonstrated ability to lead large, complex multi-year projects and scopes of work.
• Effective written communication and presentations to Senior Management Team and other stakeholders.
• Demonstrated ability to develop and manage a high performing team.
• Demonstrated ability to create an empowered team, setting clear expectations and ensuring the team take accountability for delivery.
• Demonstrated people management skills – performance management, resource planning, and recruitment.
• Demonstrated knowledge and understanding of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion principles. Ability to seek value for the business by promoting and applying these principles appropriately.
• Demonstrated ability to mentor and coach staff. Has clear understanding of when to lead and not manage.
• Demonstrated ability to inspire and motivate team and wider peers and colleagues towards the attainment of key goals.
• Demonstrate a passion for safety leadership at all times.
• Demonstrated ability to drive continuous improvement.
• Demonstrated ability to drive innovation in technical solutions.
• Demonstrated knowledge in areas of IM and Subsurface Data Management .e.g. understanding of regulatory requirements, quality management, managing subsurface and well data and documentation, developing robust processes and workflows to meet project needs, governance of company procedures both internally and externally.
• Competency in risk assessment and mitigation at project level.
• Ability to keep the larger project picture in mind, including recognising where interfaces may be needed.
• Be able to prioritise multiple work fronts, both for themselves but also provide guidance to less experienced team members.
• Ability to enquire and challenge the relevance of accepted operational standards.

• Consultant(s)

  Angela

• Vacancy ID

  TR2025041

• Job Type

  Permanent