Sr. Subsurface Data Advisor

Since its creation in 2014, Harbour has grown to become one of the world’s largest and most geographically diverse independent oil and gas companies.  Today, Harbour is producing between 475,000 and 485,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day with significant production in Norway, the UK, Germany, Argentina and North Africa. Harbour benefits from competitive operating costs and resilient margins, and a broad set of growth options including near-infrastructure opportunities in Norway, unconventional scalable opportunities in Argentina and conventional offshore projects in Mexico and Indonesia. With low GHG emissions intensity and a leading CO2 storage position in Europe, Harbour remains committed to producing oil and gas safely and responsibly to help meet the world’s energy needs. Harbour is headquartered in London with approximately 5,000 staff and contractors across its operations and offices. 

Ours is an inclusive workplace where individuals can bring their whole selves to their job and feel recognised for the value they add. We are committed to creating a genuinely inclusive and supportive working environment to ensure everyone has a positive experience at work.

At Harbour Energy, we aim to recruit, retain and promote our people based on their unique skills, regardless of race, gender or background. We need excellent people to help shape and develop the future of our company. Could this be you?

If so, we want to hear from you.

Purpose of Role:

• The Sr. Subsurface Data Advisor is responsible for managing BU Mexico’s subsurface database and supports the management of subsurface applications.
• Ensures that relevant departments can easily access and collaborate on subsurface data.
• Ensures that subsurface data is quality controlled stored and maintained in a cost-efficient manner.
• Supports the implementation of corporate standards, policies, processes and tools for handling subsurface data.

Critical Responsibilities (MAE/MATTE/HSES*):

• Ensuring that all activities are carried out in a safe manner complying with all regulatory requirements, legislation and Harbour Energy HSES Procedures.

Ethics and Compliance Responsibilities:

• Ensure that all activities and behaviours are carried out in accordance with Harbour Energy’s Ethics and Compliance Policies and Procedures, and to complete any compulsory compliance training as required.

Areas of Accountability, Responsibility and Competence:

• Ensures that subsurface data complies with legal requirements and company regulations.
• Performs lifecycle management, ETL and quality control actions on subsurface data, or steers vendors performing such activities.
• Ensures the integrity, confidentiality and security of all subsurface data sets.
• Collaborates with technical functions and projects to ensure consistent data management methodologies are applied across all subsurface data types.
• Trains employees on the methods, instruments and proper equipment for subsurface data storage and gathering.
• Establishes data quality norms and makes sure such norms are met.
• Maintains a functional link into Subsurface & Data Products standards, tooling, and governance.
• Ensures that BU adheres to corporate subsurface data governance standards.
• Contributes to IS budget planning for subsurface applications, data tools, and services.
• Provides technical data management expertise to Product Team as well as Data & Information Management, especially with respect to the technical functions.
• Supports corporate data migration projects and data transformation initiatives, such as the implementation of new tools and systems.
• Supports subsurface application management in alignment with Product Lead and corporate Product Team.
• Leads smaller projects and initiatives aligned to the delivery framework.
• Supports data room activities as well as dataflows from and to partners.

Critical Skills*, Qualifications, Experience, etc.:

Technical Skills

• Extensive knowledge in standard data management techniques.
• Understanding of data storage concepts and cost.
• Broad functional understanding of subsurface domain and subsurface applications.
• Understanding of information lifecycle concepts (creation, storage, retention and disposal) within defined governance frameworks.
• Strong stakeholder management capabilities and effective change communication.
• Cyber security awareness and understanding of Data Protection norms and regulations.
• Commercial awareness, including budget tracking and cost control.

Non-Technical Skills:

• Accountability, Decision Making and Judgement.
• Teamwork.
• Coaching.
• Problem solving.
• Results Orientated.

Professional Experience:

• Strong subsurface data management background.
• Proven vendor management experience.

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in relevant field.

Language:

• Fluent English required.
•  Spanish desirable.

Harbour Principles and Values:

• Strong alignment with and commitment to the core values and behaviours of Harbour Energy.

Inclusive recruitment is a vital part of our diversity, equity and inclusion strategy. Whatever your background, if you feel you need an adjustment during our selection process to suit your needs, please let us know, and we will be happy to help.

For further information or support on any of these points, please reach out to us at careers@harbourenergy.com