Resource Manager Geophysics

Responsibilities

• Maintain and implement appropriate safety systems collaborating with HSE.
• Perform site safety inspections and maintain a safety-focused presence on appropriate projects.
• Manage a technical team with a focus on team culture, performance, and development.
• Manage budget on all responsible projects and operations. Develop rotating and annual budget including cost reporting.
• Manage team resources by recruiting, training, coaching employees. Communicate job expectations and appraise performance.
• Develop individual capabilities for team members. Perform regular check-ins and annual performance reviews.
• Work with other Resource managers to build consistency in technical work, team culture, and department systems.
• Develop new tools for project management with a focus on resource allocation and tracking prospect pipeline. Ensure continued relevancy.
• Develop and maintain reporting structures; systems, processes, and workflows; and data systems.
• Conduct project reviews and ensure technical work is world-class.
• Ensure team tools including survey templates, processing/interpretation workflows, conceptual models, and technology are world-class.
• Cookordinate projects and resources with other Resource Management to ensure projects meet target quality, schedule, and budget.
• Responsible for program progress, program strategies, and recommendations including reporting to upper management through appropriate and effective tools.
• Liaise between Exploration and intra-company partners such as Business Development, Operations, and Finance.
• Lead in communication including effective and influential presentations, memos, and meetings.
• Ensure risk, uncertainty, contingency planning, and decision trees are always included in team workflows and deliverables.
• Develop and maintain reporting structures, systems, processes, and workflows; and data systems.
• Responsible for data management and document control within the Exploration team and other departments where crossover is required.
• Oversee new data streams; focus on quality control and availability.
• Manage the geophysics function with a focus on technical excellence, fit-for-purpose workstreams, and global efficiencies; ensure goals of team are aligned with company goals.
• Define geophysical strategies and multi-year roadmaps (e.g., MT, gravity, magnetics, seismic where applicable) aligned to prospect maturation and development needs.
• Plan, scope, and oversee geophysical field campaigns, including survey design, permitting/interface support, contractor management, HSE planning, and field QC.
• Establish standards for data processing, inversion, interpretation, uncertainty, and documentation; ensure reproducibility and appropriate peer review.
• Drive integrated interpretations with geology, geochemistry, drilling, and reservoir disciplines; maintain conceptual and quantitative subsurface models and spatial products in GIS.
• Oversee geoscience support functions including but not limited to field work programs.

Qualifications

• Experience in managing a technical team with a focus on team culture, performance, and development.
• Proven track record in managing budgets and developing budgets for projects and operations.
• Strong leadership skills in recruiting, training, coaching employees and appraising performance.
• Experience in developing and maintaining reporting structures, systems, processes, and workflows; and data systems.
• Experience in leading communication, including effective and influential presentations, memos, and meetings.
• Experience in overseeing new data streams and ensuring quality control and availability.
• Experience in managing the geophysics function with a focus on technical excellence, fit-for-purpose workstreams, and global efficiencies.
• Experience in defining geophysical strategies and multi-year roadmaps aligned to prospect maturation and development needs.
• Experience in planning, scoping, and overseeing geophysical field campaigns, including survey design, permitting/interface support, contractor management, HSE planning, and field QC.
• Experience in establishing standards for data processing, inversion, interpretation, uncertainty, and documentation; ensuring reproducibility and appropriate peer review.
• Experience in driving integrated interpretations with geology, geochemistry, drilling, and reservoir disciplines; maintaining conceptual and quantitative subsurface models and spatial products in GIS.
• Experience in overseeing geoscience support functions including but not limited to field work programs.