VP, Geoscience Operations
industrial_energy_operations › Technologist · E1 — E1 — Director (Executive) · Executive
Executive who leads the organization's earth-science measurement and analysis programs supporting resource exploration, extraction, and management.
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$169,459 USD
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What this role is
Executive who leads the organization's earth-science measurement and analysis programs supporting resource exploration, extraction, and management. At the Director (Executive) (E1) level, the role owns a significant function with strategic authority, strategic and cross-functional, and drives function-wide enterprise impact. Executive leadership of a function.
What this level does
- Leads a complete geoscience sub-function through Directors/geoscience managers, owning end-to-end delivery of complex geologic studies — resource identification, characterization, and mapping — across the organization's active programs.
- Sets standards and priorities for prospect identification and evaluation, holding technical leads accountable for the quality of seismic interpretation, log analysis, and 3D geologic models feeding resource decisions.
- Directs quality control, regulatory documentation, and technical review processes so that geologic characterization work meets state licensure and internal defensibility requirements.
- Interfaces with peer executives and major clients/partners to align the geoscience function's investigation programs with business exploration and development objectives.
- Owns talent strategy for the technologist function — building the pipeline from field/lab technicians through project leads to principal geologists — and resolves the highest-consequence technical disputes escalated by Directors.
- Knowledge applied
- Applies deep functional geoscience mastery — resource identification, geologic characterization/mapping, seismic and log interpretation, 3D modeling — combined with detailed knowledge of the company's programs to set functional strategy for one complete sub-function.
- Complexity & problem solving
- Resolves the hardest technical and delivery problems within the function; owns functional strategy where a mis-scoped study or mis-called prospect carries serious functional and business consequences.
- Collaboration & interaction
- Interfaces with other executives and major customers/partners; represents the geoscience function in cross-executive planning and key client technical engagements.
- Typical experience
- 12–15+ yrs of geoscience and management experience, typically with an advanced degree (M.S./Ph.D.) and a track record of prospect identification and evaluation; leads through Directors/geoscience managers.
Skills at this level
- Resource Identification and Characterization
- — Directs the identification of subsurface locations indicating potential oil, gas, mineral, or metallic-ore resources, and the characterization and mapping of those geologic resources into decision-ready assessments.
- Prospect Evaluation
- — Governs the evaluation of exploration prospects — judging geologic risk and resource potential across a portfolio — to guide where the enterprise commits capital, field campaigns, and development.
- Seismic and Geophysical Interpretation
- — Leads the acquisition and interpretation of seismic and geophysical data to reduce subsurface uncertainty, setting standards for how instrument-gathered geological data informs resource decisions.
- 3D Geologic Modeling
- — Oversees the construction of 3D geologic models from field, log, and seismic inputs, ensuring models used for resource estimation are consistent, auditable, and defensible across programs.
- Complex Geologic Study Leadership
- — Serves as ultimate owner of all phases of complex geologic studies and investigations, scoping and directing programs that identify, characterize, and map geologic resources at scale.
- Technical Organization Leadership
- — Conceives, plans, and executes complex technical programs while managing a large geoscience organization — determining objectives, setting priorities, and delegating work across field, lab, and modeling teams.
- Geoscience Policy Formulation
- — Formulates organization-wide and, in public-sector settings, national policies governing how geologic resources are identified, evaluated, characterized, and stewarded.
- Technical Quality Control and Regulatory Governance
- — Establishes quality-control and regulatory-documentation standards so geologic characterization, resource estimates, and reporting withstand licensure requirements, external audit, and disclosure scrutiny.
- Results Accountability
- — Holds self and the technical organization accountable for measurable, high-quality, timely, and cost-effective results across the geoscience program portfolio.
- Analytical and Critical Thinking
- — Evaluates observation and test data to explain geologic findings and to adjudicate competing interpretations, applying critical judgment to research and resource conclusions at the executive level.
- Geoscience Data Platform Strategy
- — Sets the enterprise standard for the interpretation, well/log, GIS, and modeling platforms (e.g., Petra, GeoGraphix, ArcGIS, Oasis montaj) the organization uses to turn field and lab data into resource decisions — deciding which capabilities the function standardizes on rather than operating the tools directly.
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