Junior Geoscience Data Manager

Aberdeen, Scotland, United Kingdom

10/27/2024

Are you ready to play a key role in propelling organisations on their data driven journey?

Sword builds foundations across platforms, data, and applications and our people have a shared passion for technology and solving complex business challenges for our customers.

Our core values and culture are based on caring about our people, investing in training and career development and building inclusive teams where we are all encouraged to contribute to achieve success. Our people and culture are our highest priority in all we do. Measurable feedback is captured annually to ensure we continue to improve and develop our offering.

If these values are important to you, and you are looking to take the next step in your career with an established and growing company, we're delighted to share a newly created contract opportunity to join the Sword team in the role of Junior Geoscience Data Manager.

This role would ideally suit a graduate looking for their first role in the energy sector, or someone who has 1-2 years' industry experience looking for the next step in their career. The successful candidate will work as part of a project team based on-site in Aberdeen.

The successful candidate will work alongside the current team providing a key service to our energy supermajor clients, in addition to contributing to Sword's growing SDO service line. The objective is to create a quality-controlled batch of well data which adheres to project requirement and client requests. Training and learning & development opportunities will be provided.

Requirements

Education:

• University Degree, preferably in Geology/Petroleum Geology/Earth Sciences with a sound knowledge of Information Technology
  
  
  

Essential Experience:

• An awareness of subsurface (Geoscience & Engineering) data types and the complex nature of how the data is obtained, stored, integrated, applied, and managed across multiple business functions
  
  
  

Desirable Experience:

• A knowledge of wireline and MWD/LWD logging tools and their applications
• Cross-discipline knowledge within the subsurface domain (Geology, Petrophysics, Geophysics, Reservoir Engineering, Wells etc.)
• The ability to prioritise workloads, work to strict deadlines and follow workflows
• Ability to communicate effectively and professionally (in English)
• A detail-orientated self-starter with the ability to solve technical problems
• Knowledge of data management, data clean-up, quality control and data loading
• Any experience working with commonly used software in the subsurface industry such as Petrel, Techlog, Geolog and Interactive Petrophysics, or relational databases
  
  
  

Benefits

Our people are supported and encouraged to develop their career with Sword through their own personal learning and development plan, alongside a competitive salary, pension, private health, wellbeing and insurance schemes, a flexible approach to working, and employee assistance programme.

Sword is committed to maintaining a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunities employer. All applicants receive equal consideration for employment regardless of age, disability, gender identity or reassignment, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity status, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation.

If we can do anything to help make the hiring process more accessible, please let our talent acquisition team know when you apply so we can support any adjustments.