Reservoir Engineer (Product Analyst) in Abingdon

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Location: Abingdon, Oxfordshire

Job Summary: The Product Analyst (Reservoir Engineering) is a key member of the digital product team and provides technical insight and solution design throughout the product lifecycle. Leveraging strong technical domain expertise, the role translates product roadmap requirements into clear, actionable design specifications for a team of digital engineers. The Reservoir Engineer Product Analyst evaluates and tests product prototypes to ensure they meet usability expectations, customer needs, and roadmap objectives, and conducts post‐development technical validation to confirm the product delivers against the defined acceptance criteria – to ensure adoption within our customer base.

Typical Responsibilities and Duties:

• Product Design: Develop options that meet roadmap goals and customer requirements.
• Enhance Usability: Work with user experience team to optimize product usability and automation for better development efficiency.
• AI: Ensure products leverage the latest advances in AI technology.
• Engineering Guidance: Provide daily guidance to engineering teams on product functionality development.
• Work item definition: Offer detailed descriptions and acceptance criteria to engineering team for new functionalities.
• Client Prioritization: Assist the product team in prioritizing client requirements during sprint planning.
• Accuracy Validation: Validate the accuracy of the solutions developed.
• Prototype Testing: Conduct testing for prototypes and commercial products to ensure they meet specifications, including customer focus groups when appropriate to ensure alignment.
• Customer Validation: Support the definition of the User-Experience and continually validate that through testing and use-data analysis. Follow up with customers to confirm the resolution of bugs and implementation of requirements.
• Post-Development communication: Inform customers about the timelines for product enhancements, including updates and upgrades.
• Product Quality: Collaborate with engineering to maintain high standards of product quality.
• Build Product Material: Produce product documentation, demo videos and written material for training and marketing purposes.

Skills and Competencies:

• Technical Expertise: Knowledge of product design and technical requirements to create viable solutions.
• Communication Skills: Ability to clearly articulate product functionalities and enhancements to both engineering teams and clients.
• Problem-Solving: Strong analytical skills to optimize product development and troubleshoot issues effectively.
• Customer Focus: A customer-oriented approach to understand and prioritize client needs and validate product solutions.
• Collaboration and Leadership: The capacity to work closely with cross-functional teams and lead product quality initiatives.

Qualifications:

• 5+ years' experience within Reservoir Engineering
• Educated to Masters level in related discipline
• Desired experience working with SLB product portfolio (Petrel, Intersect etc)

Career Advancement: SLB Eureka Technical Career (SETC) provides proven technical contributors with a career path that offers them recognition, reward, and influence that parallels an equivalent management progression. We are leaders in Technology Domain Knowledge – Our Eureka Community of practice has over 28,500 members, in 30 communities, with 123 Special Interest Groups (SIGs). We've published over 10,000 publications in the past decade. The early stage of SETC known as "SETC Associate", is a new addition to the SETC Framework in the Technology Organization.

BlueFlex (if eligible): We are open to flexible, hybrid working with a combination of on-site & home working days.

What we can offer you: Competitive base salary with bonus, private healthcare for employee & family, subsidised dental care, Health & Wellbeing programs such as the Employee Mental health support, health & wellness coaching, part employer and employee funded pension contribution, Income protection scheme, life insurance. Other benefits are also available through the SLB flexible benefits program.

SLB is an equal employment opportunity employer. Qualified applicants are considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, or other characteristics protected by law. The recruiting process and the position can be adapted to fit most disabilities, please do not hesitate to mention this when applying.