Location: Ireland - Dublin

Job Status: Permanent Position

Interview Date:  ASAP

Start Date: ASAP

Open To: EU Nationals or Irish Work Permit Holders

Job Overview: One of Europe's largest independent oil and gas exploration and production companies is seeking a Senior Geophysicist to support the continued growth of multi-disciplinary geophysics Exploration, Appraisal and Production programs by providing time & depth imaging solutions on in-house seismic processing projects. Applicants invited with a minimum of 8 years industry experience covering signal processing, time and depth-domain imaging and velocity model building. This is an excellent time to join and progress your career working for a rapidly growing oil operator...

The Company has a large portfolio of exploration and production assets with over 150 licences across 26 countries, and are producing from over 60 fields. They are expanding rapidly year-on-year and have in excess of 1700 people worldwide. Their exploration-led growth strategy is focused on light oil in Africa and the Atlantic Margins. They are a dominant player in West Africa and continue to expand. The Company demonstrates a creative and flexible approach to successful acquisitions and development globally, and continue to deliver exploration success.

Responsibilities: Reporting to the Global Manager, Geophysical Technology this role encompasses many functions including:

• Become competent in the Company's suite of software solutions utilised, work flows, and practices.
• Working within the Global Geophysical Technology (GGT) team, undertake seismic time and depth imaging processing/re-processing projects drawing from non-seismic (FTG, gravity, magnetic, EM, MT) projects to support the company's exploration, appraisal and production programs.
• Liaise with colleagues within the GGT team as well as the end-user Asset G&G staff to deliver high quality results in a timely and cost-effective manner.
• Work on data from a variety of geological settings using 2D, 3D & 4D seismic, comprising one- to four-components from land, transition zone and marine environments.
• Consider subsurface model QC, uncertainty estimates and limitations in the use of such models in your projects.
• Work on high-resolution seismic to assist pre-drill hazard assessment and contribute to seismic acquisition design projects.
• Be involved in down-hole geophysics data acquisition and processing, and ideally integrate a variety of disparate remotely sensed geophysics datasets in support of the subsurface model.
• Apply and promote good project management skills - for each project you will be expected to maintain up to date project related records and submit the final project report in a timely manner.
• Present results to the end-user asset team, partners and management.
• Mentor junior staff members - help to develop their depth imaging capabilities.
• Promote good Environment, Health and Safety behaviour.
• Stay abreast of relevant technology developments in the industry.

This senior level role offers a great opportunity for an experienced depth imaging Geophysicist to advance their technical and managerial skills, working on a wide range of exploration, appraisal and production projects. It is an excellent time to join and progress your career working for this rapidly growing oil operator. Great career prospects exist, working in a progressive environment that encourages and rewards individual effort and initiative. Assistance towards relocation is available where required.

Requirements: The successful candidate will have:

• Degree level education essential. Preferably in geoscience or applied Physics. Masters or PHD preferred.
• Minimum 8 years relevant work experience covering signal processing, time and depth-domain imaging and velocity model building essential.
• Experience working on seismic data from a variety of geological settings essential.
• Proven experience in processing single and multi-component 2D, 3D and 4D seismic land, transition zone and marine data from a variety of geological settings in support of exploration, appraisal and production projects highly desired.
• Familiar with a variety for approaches used to construct (and assess the suitability of) velocity models for use in subsurface imaging and will have an understanding of using borehole, VSP and non-seismic data to constrain such models essential.
• Knowledge of travel time computation techniques as well as advanced imaging algorithms.
• Proven knowledge of industry standard techniques in noise suppression, multiple suppression and imaging technologies. (Experience gained preferably with a seismic processing contractor, within the processing / technology team of an established O&G operator or within a leading industry-focussed academic research institute).
• Hands-on field experience desired - preferably using a variety of geophysics techniques such as seismic, gravity, magnetic, EM, MT - for use in both conventional as well as high-resolution exploration and engineering geophysics projects.
• Appreciation of the impact of seismic data acquisition configurations on derived seismic attributes.
• A working knowledge of Linux and experience in industry standard 3D seismic processing packages essential e.g. ProMax, Seispace, GeoDepth and/or Fusion (formerly 3DGeo) Imaging technology.
• Ability to work both independently and as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
• Strong project management skills.
• Effective interpersonal and communication skills through written and oral presentation.
• Liaise effectively with third party service providers.
• Strong presentation skills - can convey information and ideas through a variety of media in a manner that engages the audience.
• Good organizational and time management skills.
• Creative - Be able to use your experience to differentiate between proven fact and unproven hypothesis, and to consider alternative models in the latter case.
• Help build a cohesive team; facilitating the completion of goals.
• Ambitious - exceeding expectations.

Package: Base salary of €85K - €100K is on offer dependent on skills, plus discretionary bonus, attractive operator benefits package and much more... Relocation assistance is available for anyone relocating from outside Ireland.