Senior Reservoir Engineer
CR/083412
Posted: 10/08/2026
- Competitive
- Scotland, Aberdeen City, Aberdeen
- Contract
Our client is currently recruiting for the position of Senior Reservoir Engineer, based in Aberdeen.
Responsibilities:
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: CR/083412.
People are our business worldwide
Orion Group was founded in 1987 and is now one of the largest, independent, international recruitment companies. We have a network of 200 employees working from 24 offices, delivering a range of services – Talent Acquisition, Recruitment Outsourcing Services, Retained Search, Global Workforce Solutions, Completions & Commissioning and Materials Management – across 68 countries. As a global leader in workforce solutions, we recruit personnel across the Engineering & Technical, Office & Commercial, Scientific and Skilled Trades disciplines, for sectors including Oil & Gas, Life Science, Power & Utilities, Constructions & Infrastructure, Manufacturing and Renewables.
Responsibilities:
- Lead reservoir engineering activities for the project assets, supporting effective reservoir management and field optimisation.
- Build, maintain and interpret reservoir simulation models to support forecasting and opportunity identification.
- Communicate reservoir performance, risks and uncertainties clearly to support business decision-making.
- Work collaboratively across Subsurface, Wells, Operations and Commercial teams to deliver integrated outcomes.
- Provide technical assurance and present recommendations to management, joint venture partners and regulatory stakeholders.
- Support development projects and business growth opportunities across the wider portfolio.
- Responsible for reservoir management through production data analysis, reservoir simulation and analysis of case prediction.
- Reservoir engineering support provision to asset development projects, including liaising with petroleum engineering and process engineering disciplines.
- Presenting output of work for internal QC, JV partners and regulatory authorities
- Communication of subsurface risk and uncertainty to enable informed Area decisions
- Integration with other functions, especially Ops, Commercial and Wells
- Assessing and QC’ing inputs to static and dynamic reservoir models
- Building and running reservoir models in support of production optimisation, forecasting and identification of value adding opportunities
- Support business development activities as required.
Experience & Qualifications:
- Extensive experience in industry within a reservoir engineering / petroleum discipline
- Eclipse, Petroleum Experts, Harmony and other reservoir engineering software & simulation skills, building, running and optimising models; Working knowledge of other key petrotechnical software
- Ability to work with across disciplines to deliver value adding projects.
- Manage integrated and complex subsurface workflows
- Excellent technical writing and presentation skills
- Understanding of economics, key business drivers and company goals
- Degree in Petroleum Engineering or closely related subject
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: CR/083412.
People are our business worldwide
Orion Group was founded in 1987 and is now one of the largest, independent, international recruitment companies. We have a network of 200 employees working from 24 offices, delivering a range of services – Talent Acquisition, Recruitment Outsourcing Services, Retained Search, Global Workforce Solutions, Completions & Commissioning and Materials Management – across 68 countries. As a global leader in workforce solutions, we recruit personnel across the Engineering & Technical, Office & Commercial, Scientific and Skilled Trades disciplines, for sectors including Oil & Gas, Life Science, Power & Utilities, Constructions & Infrastructure, Manufacturing and Renewables.
Lachlan Nicholson
Staff Recruitment Manager
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