Subsurface Operations Manager

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:

• Lead the technical delivery of the Subsurface Support team covering petrophysics, operational geology and geomechanics, supporting delivery to Zama, Kan and Block 30 per project and well operations priorities.
• Accountable for optimisation of geological operations, petrophysical and formation evaluation to support the planning and execution of Harbour Energy operated drilling and well intervention projects.

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.
• Specific responsibility for project well planning and execution, well data acquisition, pore pressure, fracture gradient and wellbore stability modelling. 

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:

Accountable for the Technical Delivery of:

• Reporting and Data: Ensure quality and timely delivery of geological reporting, data delivery, and analysis.
• Contract Management: Manage contracts for data acquisition on operated wells, optimising value.
• Pre-Drill Modelling: Accountable for high-quality PPFG and wellbore stability pre-drill modelling.
• Risk Management: Ensure risks and critical decisions/contingencies of well execution are understood and communicated.
• Lead operational geology coverage for drilling campaigns, including well objectives and real-time interface for data acquisition and decision making.
• Manage post-well evaluations and lessons learned capture across Zama, Kan and Block 30 well delivery programmes.
• Manage technical delivery of log interpretation, formation evaluation and related uncertainty quantification.
• Regulatory Communication: Ensure accurate and timely communication with the Regulator and submission of notifications.

Resource Deployment and People Management

• Team Leadership: Direct activities of the team, and any external support, to plan and deliver geological operations well plans.
• Team Staffing: Ensure multi-disciplinary well planning teams are appropriately staffed.
• Coordinate resource for project and asset support, working with the Wells team, asset Subsurface Manager, and BU Subsurface teams.
• Line-manage direct reports, coaching them through technical mentoring and structured feedback.
• Set individual objectives, conduct performance reviews, build national specialist capability and support hiring and selection in coordination with the Reservoir Senior Manager.
• Reputation Management: Maintain and enhance Harbour Energy’s reputation with external stakeholders.
• Any other reasonable duty as per instruction by your manager.

Critical Skills*, Qualifications, Experience, etc.:

Technical Skills

• Strong knowledge of petrophysical interpretation for open and cased hole logs, preferably in turbiditic settings, with proficiency in Interactive Petrophysics (IP), Techlog or equivalent.
• Experience in core analysis integration, saturation height function modelling and generation of porosity, permeability and reservoir property models.
• Working knowledge of operational geology including real-time geosteering, LWD/wireline monitoring and post-well evaluation.
• Competency in geomechanics including 1D and 3D mechanical earth models, wellbore stability analysis and completion design input.
• Experience in data QC, merged log dataset provision and petrophysical inputs to static and dynamic modelling.
• Experience supervising and leading multi-discipline specialist teams across development projects.

Non-Technical Skills:

• Strong personnel management qualities, leading and developing self and others to maximise their potential.
• Ability to effectively represent the function within the BU and in a global context.
• Strong ability to create and maintain relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
• Strong ownership mindset, with inherent accountability for delivering specialist outputs safely and on schedule.
• Performance mindset and problem-solving attitude.
• Strong written and oral skills to efficiently communicate ideas and plans.

Professional Experience:

• More than 12 years of experience in the E&P industry across petrophysics or geomechanics with operational geology exposure.
• Experience supporting offshore well operations through real-time petrophysical and geological monitoring.
• Experience delivering specialist subsurface inputs to offshore development projects.

Education:

• Bachelor's degree in relevant field.
• Graduate or post-graduate qualifications in Earth Sciences, Petroleum Engineering or Geomechanics; membership of professional and industry associations.

Language:

• English: Proficient (written and spoken).
• Spanish: Intermediate or above.

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