Application Specialist - Subsurface & Wells
TR/079768
Posted: 05/11/2025
- PAYE Rate Negotiable
- Scotland, Aberdeen City, Aberdeen
- Contract
Our client is currently recruiting for the position of Application Specialist Subsurface & Wells based in Aberdeen. This role has been released on a 12 month PAYE contract.
Responsibilities:
Discovery & Use-Case Design
Delivery & Enablement
Data Standards & Integrations
Offshore and subsurface Performance & End-User Experience
Vendor & AMS Governance
Service Operations (SME / L3 coordination)
Experience & Qualifications:
Contract position
If you feel that you are well suited to the above opportunity and would like to find out more then please contact Orion Group for more information or apply by forwarding your current CV quoting reference: TR/079768.
Our role in supporting diversity and inclusion
As an international workforce business, we are committed to sourcing personnel that reflects the diversity and values of our client base but also that of Orion Group. We welcome the wide range of experiences and viewpoints that potential workers bring to our business and our clients, including those based on nationality, gender, culture, educational and professional backgrounds, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, disability, and age differences, job classification and religion. In our inclusive workplace, regardless of your employment status as staff or contract, everyone is assured the right of equitable, fair and respectful treatment.
Responsibilities:
Discovery & Use-Case Design
- Run discovery with geoscience and wells stakeholders; map AS-IS / TO-BE workflows (modelling, interpretation, planning).
- Capture requirements and acceptance criteria; maintain traceability; shape value-based backlogs and options (configuration vs process change).
- Plan rollouts to project teams and assets, coordinating change impacts for field and office users.
Delivery & Enablement
- Build/manage plans, RAID and release calendars; coordinate UAT, readiness, training and comms; run cutover/hypercare and track benefits.
- Ensure Non-Functional Requirements are defined and evidenced for performance, availability and supportability.
Data Standards & Integrations
- Oversee data standards and pipelines, e.g., Wellsite Information Transfer Standard Markup Language and Professional Petroleum Data Management.
- Align integrations with Open Subsurface Data Universe/data-lake patterns and corporate platforms; maintain interface contracts and runbooks.
Offshore and subsurface Performance & End-User Experience
- Capture and verify performance needs for VDI/Citrix and GPU workstations; coordinate packaging and client profiles.
- Drive adoption and standardised usage patterns; maintain knowledge articles and training materials.
Vendor & AMS Governance
- Manage third party software vendors and coordinate AMS delivery; manage SOWs/SLAs/KPIs/SIPs.
- Ensure solutions are supportable and security/compliance standards are met; clean handover to BAU.
Service Operations (SME / L3 coordination)
- Act as functional SME and L3 escalation: triage complex issues and direct AMS/ISVs to resolution (not hands-on break/fix).
- Track service KPIs and continuous improvements; ensure audit evidence (SoD/JML/GDPR) is current.
Experience & Qualifications:
- Relevant experience delivering change across subsurface/wells toolsets (e.g., Petrel, Techlog, Landmark OpenWorks, WellView/EDM).
- Understanding of data standards (WITSML/PPDM) and performance environments (VDI/Citrix/GPU); strong PM/BA and vendor coordination skills.
- Clear communication with technical users; disciplined documentation and ITIL v4/PMO governance experience.
Contract position
If you feel that you are well suited to the above opportunity and would like to find out more then please contact Orion Group for more information or apply by forwarding your current CV quoting reference: TR/079768.
Our role in supporting diversity and inclusion
As an international workforce business, we are committed to sourcing personnel that reflects the diversity and values of our client base but also that of Orion Group. We welcome the wide range of experiences and viewpoints that potential workers bring to our business and our clients, including those based on nationality, gender, culture, educational and professional backgrounds, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, disability, and age differences, job classification and religion. In our inclusive workplace, regardless of your employment status as staff or contract, everyone is assured the right of equitable, fair and respectful treatment.
Emma Smart
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