Senior Director of Geophysics
industrial_energy_operations › Geophysics · M6 — M6 — Vice President · Management
Senior executive who leads the geophysics function across multiple projects, regions, or business units to guide major energy and mining investment decisions.
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What this role is
Senior executive who leads the geophysics function across multiple projects, regions, or business units to guide major energy and mining investment decisions. At the Vice President (M6) level, the role owns a major function or division, enterprise priorities and external factors, and drives division-wide / organization-wide. Leads the leadership of a division.
What this level does
- Leads the geophysics organization through senior managers across imaging, processing, R&T, data engineering, and commercial functions, owning end-to-end delivery of large, strategic programs
- Sets the long-term technical vision spanning depth imaging, EMB, and ML/AI workflows, with decisions that have long-term effect on the company's exploration and imaging competitiveness
- Owns scope, schedule, budget, risk, and governance for multi-workstream programs, defining milestones and decision gates and reporting to company and client leadership
- Negotiates with executives and client leadership on critical technical strategy and program commitments, and shapes organization-wide policy on geophysical capability
- Represents the organization as a senior authority in industry venues such as SEG and EAGE and raises organizational capability in FWI, OBN, subsalt imaging, and ML workflows
- Knowledge applied
- Applies deep cross-functional leadership to set long-term geophysical technical vision across imaging, R&T, data engineering, and commercial functions.
- Complexity & problem solving
- Tackles abstract, cross-functional program problems with long-term company impact, defining long-term technical and capability strategy.
- Collaboration & interaction
- Negotiates with executives and client leadership on critical program matters and represents the organization at SEG/EAGE and industry forums.
- Typical experience
- 12–15+ years of deep leadership across geophysics departments and programs; 20+ years in seismic processing and imaging typical for principal-track authority.
Skills at this level
- Seismic data interpretation
- — Interprets seismic data to characterize the subsurface, building quantitative interpretation models and translating imaged reflectors into structural and stratigraphic understanding for decision-making.
- Depth imaging and earth model building
- — Directs velocity model building and depth imaging workflows — including FWI, subsalt, and OBN techniques — to produce accurate migrated images and earth models for exploration programs.
- Reservoir characterization
- — Applies quantitative geophysical methods to characterize reservoirs, integrating seismic attributes and well ties to describe subsurface properties for energy programs.
- Well ties and mapping
- — Performs and reviews well-to-seismic ties and horizon/structure mapping to calibrate seismic interpretation against borehole data.
- Geophysical program delivery
- — Owns scope, schedule, budget, risk, and governance for multi-workstream seismic and imaging programs, defining KPIs, milestones, and decision gates and reporting progress to company and client leadership.
- Geophysical project scheduling
- — Designs project schedules across concurrent surveys, reprocessing, and imaging efforts and ensures teams complete geophysical work on time.
- ML/AI geophysical workflows
- — Sets technical direction for machine-learning and AI-assisted geophysical workflows applied to processing, imaging, and interpretation to raise throughput and image quality.
- Client-facing technical authority
- — Serves as a senior geophysical authority in client workshops, technical forums, and industry venues (SEG, EAGE), advising on technical strategy and program execution.
- Multi-disciplinary team leadership
- — Leads teams spanning imaging, processing, R&T, data engineering, and commercial functions, and mentors senior and junior geophysicists to raise capability in FWI, OBN, and subsalt imaging.
- Geophysical software proficiency
- — Directs use of geophysical interpretation and analysis platforms (e.g., Petrel, Kingdom, GeoFrame, Techlog) to handle and interpret seismic and well data across the team's workflows.
- Physics, geology, and mathematics foundation
- — Grounds team decisions in the physics, geology, and mathematics underpinning wave propagation and subsurface behavior, essential for guiding imaging and interpretation choices.
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