Director of Geoscience Technology
industrial_energy_operations › Technologist · M5 — M5 — Senior Director · Management
Directs multiple teams of geoscience technologists responsible for acquiring and analyzing earth-science data across a major operating region or business unit.
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$188,371 USD
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pay@2 · 2026-07
What this role is
Directs multiple teams of geoscience technologists responsible for acquiring and analyzing earth-science data across a major operating region or business unit. At the Senior Director (M5) level, the role owns multiple functions or a large department, org-level trade-offs and investment, and drives multi-function results. Leads directors and managers.
What this level does
- Direct the geoscience technologist organization through subordinate managers, with decisions impacting division-wide exploration and resource-development operations
- Define organization-wide methods for geoscience interpretation, subsurface data platforms, and digital-twin development to resolve complex org-wide issues
- Provide strategic direction and scientific expertise across the portfolio of exploration and resource-development projects
- Influence executives and major external partners on geoscience capability investment, standards, and technical risk
- Establish the competency, hiring, and technology strategy that sustains interpretation quality and automation across all technologist teams
- Knowledge applied
- Directs strategic geoscience areas through department managers; defines org-wide interpretation and subsurface-platform methods.
- Complexity & problem solving
- Resolves complex organization-wide issues; defines methods and standards impacting division or company operations.
- Collaboration & interaction
- Influences executives and major external partners on geoscience capability, standards, and technical risk.
- Typical experience
- 10–12+ years including second-level management and geoscience strategy work.
Skills at this level
- Wireline and seismic interpretation
- — Directs delivery of high-quality geoscience interpretations of wireline and seismic data to time and standard, and sets the review bar for teams producing them.
- Geoscience workflow automation
- — Guides use of coding and analytical languages such as Python, SQL, and PostgreSQL to build and automate repeatable geoscience workflows and reduce manual interpretation effort.
- Digital twin contribution
- — Oversees interpretative geoscience contributions toward the digital twin, integrating well, outcrop, and seismic data into a shared subsurface model.
- Geoscience project leadership
- — Leads geoscience projects from conception through execution, ensuring alignment with organizational goals and compliance with regulatory standards.
- Peer review governance
- — Establishes and runs the in-house peer-review process for integrated and seismic-focused studies to safeguard interpretation quality across teams.
- Data and database management
- — Applies data-analytical skills and database knowledge to structure, quality-control, and serve subsurface data supporting interpretation and automation.
- Field and laboratory equipment operation
- — Supervises competent operation of field and laboratory instruments, ensuring technicians reach competency through structured on-the-job training.
- Cloud-native subsurface software strategy
- — Sets adoption and tooling strategy for cloud-native geoscience and subsurface software, including seat allocation and capability roadmaps.
- Technical communication
- — Ensures accurate oral and written reporting of methods and findings to scientists, engineers, managers, and other technicians.
- Team development and mentoring
- — Coaches, trains, and mentors geoscience technicians and technologists, building interpretation and automation competency across the team.
- Budget and resource management
- — Owns unit-to-organization geoscience budgets covering consumables, contractor hours, software seats, and staffing against delivery demand.
- Critical thinking in interpretation
- — Applies judgment when interpreting scientific data and determining relevance, and coaches teams to propose alternative solutions during site evaluation and preparation.
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