Technical Data Specialist

IKM; Stavanger; Hybrid; NOK 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Job summary

IKM in Stavanger seeks a data management specialist to curate Geoscience & Geophysics data and ensure rigorous quality control across the data lifecycle.

You will work with horizons, faults, and geological models, employing Petrel and Petrel Studio, while coordinating with domain experts to maintain data provenance and standards.

Qualifications

• Higher education in geology, geophysics, or subsurface data management.
• Hands-on experience with subsurface data management and G&G interpretation data in exploration/production.
• Proficiency with Petrel and Petrel Studio, including database structures and data handling.
• Experience with horizons, faults, surfaces, well picks, and geological models.
• Knowledge of data quality control, metadata, naming standards, and data lifecycle management.
• Ability to work independently within a team and handle changing priorities.
• OSDU concepts knowledge is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Identify, collect, structure, and curate G&G data.
• Perform data quality control to ensure completeness and conformity.
• Apply naming conventions, metadata requirements, and data lifecycle standards.
• Support data discovery, loading, validation, organization, and delivery across repositories.
• Provide operational support to business users and coordinate corrective actions.
• Contribute to improvements of data management workflows and standards.
• Establish data lineage and interpretation context.
• Collaborate with G&G disciplines and data management teams.

Skills

Subsurface data management

G&G interpretation data

Data quality control

Metadata management

Naming standards

Data lifecycle management

OSDU concepts

Independent working

Team collaboration

Education

Geology / Geophysics or subsurface data management

Tools

Petrel

Petrel Studio

Job description

• -Identify, collect, structure, and curate relevant field-interpreted Geoscience & Geophysics (G&G) data.
• -Perform comprehensive data quality control, ensuring completeness, consistency, and conformity with agreed standards.
• -Apply established naming conventions, metadata requirements, classification principles, and data management standards.
• -Support the data lifecycle, including discovery, loading, validation, organization, retrieval, and delivery across repositories and applications.
• -Provide operational support to business users, investigate data issues, and coordinate corrective actions.
• -Contribute to the continuous improvement of data management workflows and standards.
• -Establish and preserve data lineage, provenance, and relevant interpretation context.
• -Collaborate with G&G disciplines, data management teams, and other relevant stakeholders.

Required expertise

• -Relevant higher education in geology, geophysics, subsurface data management, or an equivalent discipline.
• -Demonstrated hands-on experience with subsurface data management and G&G interpretation data in the exploration and production domain.
• -Strong practical experience with Petrel and Petrel Studio, including database structures, data handling, and troubleshooting.
• -Experience with interpreted subsurface data such as horizons, faults, surfaces, well picks, and geological models.
• -Proficiency in data quality control, metadata management, naming standards, and data lifecycle management.
• -Ability to work independently within an integrated team, manage changing priorities, and engage effectively with domain specialists.
• -Working knowledge of OSDU concepts is preferred.

Language: English

Location: Stavanger

Work schedule: Full-time

Duration: Fixed-term assignment from 02/11/2026 to 30/09/2027