Senior Reservoir Engineer

First Recruitment Group; Aberdeen City; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

First Recruitment Group is seeking a Senior Reservoir Engineer for a long-term contract based in Aberdeen with hybrid working (3 days in office, 2 from home). The role involves delivering production and resource optimization across non-operated assets within UKBU, providing technical assurance and aligning with joint venture partners.

You will develop reservoir engineering work programs, influence operator evaluations, and maintain robust production forecasts to support strategic decision-making.

Qualifications

• MSc in reservoir engineering or a related subject.
• Experience delivering subsurface decision support across non-operated assets.
• Strong understanding of reservoir engineering fundamentals and industry practices.

Responsibilities

• Provide subsurface decision support for non-operated assets and frame key decisions.
• Challenge operator evaluations and provide independent technical assurance.
• Develop and maintain a company technical position through integrated subsurface evaluation.
• Build technical alignment with operators and co-venturers to maximise value.
• Define and deliver reservoir engineering work programs across multiple assets.
• Identify and influence opportunities for production enhancement and resource growth.
• Maintain production forecasts for mid- and long-term plans.

Skills

Reservoir engineering

Field development

Simulation

Material balance

Pressure transient analysis

Reservoir reserve evaluations

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

MSc in reservoir engineering

Job description

Aberdeen – hybrid working set up of 3 days per week in the office and 2 days per week from home

Inside IR35 – PAYE set up

Until end of year initially and will then be renewed further

A Senior Reservoir Engineer is required to work for an operator based in Aberdeen on a long term contract that will be hybrid working

Purpose of Role:

• Reservoir Engineer within the UKBU Operated by Others multi-disciplinary subsurface team.
• Deliver opportunities for production enhancement and resource additions by influencing the operator and joint venture partners, underpinned by robust subsurface technical work
• Responsible for multiple assets across the OBO portfolio

Areas of Accountability, Responsibility and Competence:

• As the Senior Reservoir Engineer, you will provide subsurface decision support for non-operated assets, framing key decisions, identifying critical uncertainties and providing clear recommendations to management.
• Provide independent technical assurance and challenge of operator evaluations, focusing on uncertainties and assumptions material to value and decision quality.
• Develop and maintain a company technical position through integrated subsurface evaluation.
• As the Senior Reservoir Engineer, you will build technical alignment between the company, operators and co-venturers to enable effective decision making and maximise value to the company.
• Define and deliver reservoir engineering work programs in support of business strategy across multiple assets.
• Identify, mature and influence the operator to deliver opportunities for production enhancement and resource growth .
• Maintain production forecasts in support of mid and long term business plans
• As the Senior Reservoir Engineer, you will interface and leverage technical expertise to influence subsurface team priorities and work programs.
• Represent the company at external joint venture workshops, subsurface workgroups and technical committee meetings

Daily tasks include:

• Development of technical recommendations to support subsurface, asset and investment decisions
• Generation of production forecasts to support key business decisions using the appropriate tools e.g. analogue, DCA, material balance, simulation models
• Review, challenge and assurance of operator reservoir engineering evaluations and recommendations
• Analysis and integration of production, pressure, fluid and surveillance data to identify opportunities, risks and key uncertainties
• Evaluation of production enhancement and new well opportunities.
• Reserves assessments.
• Monitoring and assisting with specialists and contractors to manage reservoir engineering projects.
• Reservoir engineering input to internal and external business approvals, partner engagements and technical committee meetings.
• The postholder may be required to join the emergency response rota should this become a requirement of the position.

Core Technical Experience

• As the Senior Reservoir Engineer, you will have a fully developed technical skill set
• Expert in several anchor skills. Thoroughly understands technology and how it supports the business.
• As the Senior Reservoir Engineer, you will have expertise in different aspects of reservoir engineering e.g. field development, simulation, material balance, pressure transient analysis, fluid properties, decline curve analysis, reserve evaluations.
• Identifies, develops, executes and evaluates business opportunities
• Experience of critically reviewing and assuring technical evaluations
• Demonstrated ability to influence technical and business decisions across multidisciplinary teams and joint venture environments
• As the Senior Reservoir Engineer, you will have the ability to integrate subsurface, wells, facilities, operational and commercial considerations into technical recommendations.
• Sound working knowledge of industry software packages

Qualifications

• MSc in reservoir engineering or a related subject.

Personal Characteristics

• Puts forward own views credibly and persuasively, linking communications with desired outcomes
• Listens actively while guiding others towards positive communication outcomes, considering other perspectives
• Looks for opportunities to develop others, providing constructive and timely feedback to support development.
• Invests time in coaching 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
• Works to build trust with a multi-disciplinary team. Proactively finds opportunities to assist others and provide guidance, promotes a teamwork-based collaborative approach
• Uses own and others expertise to achieve results, can coordinate teams while collaborating with others outside the team, engages and motivates others, works strategically and communicates the bigger picture to others
• Adapts easily to change and views change as a catalyst for success
• Anticipates sources of conflict and takes steps to prevent these, looking beyond their own relationships when thinking about how to prevent conflict.
• Able to solve complex problems by balancing different needs, displaying creativity and considering innovative approaches when solving problems while looking for business efficiencies in their solutions
• Consistently completes tasks on time and to a high standard, taking responsibility for both personal and collective goals.
• Promotes company Core Values and works actively to create and sustain a positive culture that embodies those values.
• Awareness of company HSEQ Policies and Business Management System (BMS)
• Awareness of company Values & Business Principles