Principal Technical Manager

HSB Solomon Associates LLC, a subsidiary of Hartford Steam Boiler and Munich Re, is seeking candidates for a Principal Technical Manager – Upstream Oil and Gas position to work in a dynamic, fast-paced business environment. Solomon is the leading performance improvement company for the global energy industry, serving clients in nearly 80 countries, with global headquarters in Dallas and regional offices in Houston, London, and Manama. Solomon provides data-driven, strategic insight across the energy industry, leading to greater efficiency, reliability, and profitability.

BASIC FUNCTION

The Onshore Oil and Gas Production Principal Technical Manager provides technical input to Solomon’s Upstream Onshore benchmarking and consulting projects. The Technical Manager will provide upstream oil and gas industry expertise and be able to analyze production operations data to provide business insights. The Technical Manager will have knowledge of current industry operational trends and be comfortable working with production technical data.

Responsibilities

• Onshore Study Technical Roadmap

• • Responsible for stewarding the technical roadmap of Solomon’s Onshore and NGPF benchmarking studies to enable long-term market growth and business objectives
  • Owns and leads enhancement of the Worldwide Onshore Performance Analysis benchmarking studies, technical scope, benchmarking methodology & calculations, and study insight generation.

• • Execution of Onshore Production and and NGPF benchmarking studies. Interfacing with clients and internal stakeholders to provide client business value.
• Industry Trends & Market Intelligence

• • Responsible for keeping abreast of industry trends and key client initiatives and applying that market intelligence to evolve the benchmarking offerings.
  • Conceptualizes, defines, and implements changes to study scope, metrics, and deliverables to address current and future industry challenges.
  • Increases client value by expanding and deepening the insights that clients receive from study participation.

• Application of New Technologies & Analytical Methodologies

• • Responsible for applying new technologies and analytical methodologies to uncover new classes of insights from Solomon’s intellectual property and databases
  • Responsible for defining infrastructure improvements that increase the efficiency of both client study participation and Solomon study execution, as well as reducing the effort required to obtain meaningful performance insights.

• Internal Collaboration

• • Proactively collaborate with the relevant Onshore Study Manager, Benchmarking Centre of Excellence Team and Technology Team in coordinating technical study improvement activities in alignment with company timelines and resource availability

Education

• Required:

• • Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical or Petroleum Engineering

• Preferred:

• • Master’s degree and/or advanced professional degree preferred (e.g., MBA, PhD, etc.)

Work Experience

• Required:

• • 12+ years of career experience in an oil and gas operating company. and/or energy consulting company.

• • 8+ years upstream production operational experience in technical support, production, maintenance or operational management roles.

  • Significant experience with onshore conventional and unconventional, offshore, and gas production operations gained in site-based roles.

• Preferred:
  • Career tenure spanning a variety of asset and facility types and maturities
  • Career tenure spanning assignments in multiple countries

Competencies:

Required:

• • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, including excellent verbal, written, listening, public speaking, and presentation skills.
  • Excellent people skills with the ability to successfully collaborate in a global, multi-disciplinary, diverse, matrixed, and dynamic team environment.
  • Ability to independently solve difficult problems that require adaptation and modification of standard techniques, procedures, and criteria.
  • Ability to translate complex business analytics and technical concepts into information consumable by executives and non-technical personnel, both internally and externally.
  • Ability to gain insight into customer needs and to build and deliver solutions that meet customer expectations.
  • Excellent data and performance analysis skills, with excellent attention to detail.
  • Familiar with data analytics methods and tools.
  • Ability to manage complexity by acquiring data from multiple and diverse sources when solving problems; ability to uncover root causes to difficult problems.
  • Ability to cultivate innovation by coming up with useful ideas that are new, better, or unique; introduces new ways of looking at problems.
  • Ability to deliver high-quality work products using Solomon documentation standards as appropriate.
  • Ability to mobilize available internal/external resources and orchestrate multiple activities simultaneously to accomplish goals.
  • Proficiency in Microsoft Office products such as Word®, Excel®, and PowerPoint®.
  • Proven track record of continuous improvement and creating new and better ways for the organization to be successful.

• • Technical Communications – Ability to communicate complex technical concepts into simple business terms

Other

• Willing to travel approximately 15% of the time, both domestically and internationally
• This position would, ideally, be based in Solomon’s Houston office. Remote North American locations will also be considered.