Interpretation & Evaluation Services (IES) Manager

Overview

Weatherford is a leading global energy services company. Our world-class experts partner with customers to optimize their resources and realize the full potential of their assets. Across our operating locations, including manufacturing, research and development, service, and training facilities, operators choose us for strategic solutions that add efficiency, flexibility, and responsibility to any energy operation. We are focused on technology development, digital solutions, and defining our footprint in the new energy space. Our ability to provide integrated solutions across our segments will be critical to growth in our core operations and the energy transition. Energy producers face unique challenges every day, so it is our job to create solutions that enhance safety, streamline operations, and sustain uptime to meet or exceed their targets. We operate across the global energy landscape employing some of the best diverse talent in the industry. At Weatherford, we understand the value each individual brings to the table. We celebrate diversity in all its forms and are immensely proud of our workforce. We invite you to join our passionate, talented, word-class team. When you join Weatherford, you instantly feel connected to something bigger – a community that is grounded by our core values and driven to create innovative solutions for our customers. We celebrate each other’s successes, grow together, and learn from each other constantly. Individually, we are impressive. Together, we are unstoppable. We are One Weatherford. Weatherford offers competitive compensation, a comprehensive benefits program and provides you a challenging and enriching career path, with a healthy balance of structure and flexibility to chart your own course. Weatherford is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.

Responsibilities

To T To provide and manage the IES PL support throughout the area of influence, acting as the IES focal point for the clients and all the other product lines requiring support regarding subsurface domains. This role is expected to support IES Geozone Manager in the country with a considerable market size that require dedicated local support to assist in business growth, increase collaboration among product lines and pull-through of additional revenue from the subsurface evaluation perspective. The candidate requires a strong management background in subsurface evaluation domains, business acumen and strong softs skills. Roles & Responsibilities SAFETY, SECURITY & COMPLIANCE

• Maintains the highest standards of corporate governance, ensuring that all activities are carried out ethically and in compliance with Company’s Security, Compliance & HSE policies, Management System, relevant laws, regulations, standards, and industry practices and complies with the Company’s Rules to Live By
• Places Quality, Health & Safety, Security and protection of the Environment as core values while never intentionally placing employees, our processes, customers or the communities in which we live and work at risk
• Seeks continual improvement in Health, Safety, Security & protection of the Environment, taking into account responsible care, process vulnerabilities, public, customer and employee inputs, knowledge and technology and best business practices to exceed customer expectations
• Supervisors & Managers should demonstrate effective safety leadership for the health and safety arrangements of all subordinates and for any persons visiting them while on the Company premises

QUALITY

• Responsible for being familiar with the Company's Quality policies and takes an active role in the compliance and improvement of Weatherford’s Management System
• Maintains service quality as immediate priorities when working across all areas of the business and continually seeks areas for improvement

OPERATIONS

• Supervise timely and accurate IES processing, interpretation and evaluation involving all the subsurface evaluation domains across the different product lines of relevance in the location.
• Define strategy in location to achieve IES performance metrics (financial, operational, safety, quality) as established by management.
• Responsible for direct management of IES personnel in the area/country of influence including time-management, career progression, performance reviews, compensation reviews, and any other operational or HR-related duties.
• Active interaction and coordination with customers as well as support to WFRD sales teams to maintain and develop further business for WFRD various segments from the subsurface expertise.
• Building and maintaining pipeline of opportunities for IES cross product line collaboration solutions including financial and operational impact.
• Definition of innovative workflows relevant to the location that include subsurface domains to provide integrated technical solutions to our clients.
• Building and delivering of detailed reports to management.
• Coordinate an active role of IES in relevant technical societies (SPE, SPWLA, etc) according to business priorities.
• Assist operations teams across product lines on post-mortem root-cause analysis on operations related to the subsurface evaluation domains.
• Know and understand Weatherford’s Operational Excellence & Performance System (OEPS) and the Quality Policy and comply with all requirements of the Quality Systems Manual, Operating and Technical Procedures and Workplace Instructions.
• All other IES activities/duties as indicated by the IES Geozone manager and Country/Area director.

COMMUNICATION

• IES manager should excel in their soft skills maintaining effective communication with all key stakeholders internally and externally. This role requires interaction with different groups at all levels inside and outside the organization.
• Create and maintain successful communication lines between all parties (client, segments, third parties, etc).
• Clearly communicate expectations, roles and responsibilities to their employees, as well as communicate and discuss with managers highlights/lowlights, opportunities, challenges and grievances.
• Developing strong relationships with current and potential clients (internal or external)
• Ability to adjust technical conversations to different levels according to the target audience.

FINANCIAL

• IES manager is responsible to closely monitor finances of the IES group in their location according to management requirements and provide reports accordingly. Some IES managers might own a P&L.
• Identify challenges and/or opportunities for financial improvement and discuss them with the relevant parties
• Create and defend business cases to justify additional resources required.
• All employees have an accountability to the organisation to be financially responsible whether they are in charge of a function budget or simply their own expenses
• Costs incurred should be within approved budget, processed within agreed time frames & following the relevant financial policy and procedure

PEOPLE & DEVELOPMENT

• Employees have a responsibility for developing their own careers within the Company including completing all necessary function, compliance & business standards training to enhance their knowledge, skills and experience
• Employees should engage on a regular basis with their line manager to discuss their personal performance, objectives and opportunities to enhance their skills and experience to support their career potential
• IES manager is expected to actively engaging their employees to support talent management through Weatherford’s performance management process, including but not limited to talent assessments, succession planning & regular coaching opportunities
• Supervisors should collaborate with Human Resources & Training Development to drive strategies for the recruitment & retention of key personal & to foster an environment that supports the attraction & retention of a high performing talented workforce

VISION & LEADERSHIP

• Demonstrates leadership, ethical behaviour and adherence to Weatherford standards at all times
• As IES manager, the role requires a strategic approach to IES operations in the location of influence continuously looking for opportunities to increase the IES business according to the relevant business goals
• IES manager is expected to formulate, execute and evaluate strategies to drive multi-product line integration through the subsurface evaluation domains.
• Coaching and training of junior employees at the location, Geozone and Global level.

Qualifications

• Extensive management experience with a background in either Reservoir/Petroleum Engineering, Petrophysics/Geoscience/
• BSc in Engineering or Geoscience in an accredit university
• Detailed knowledge on customer’s main objectives in subsurface characterization and their relevance to WFRD business
• General knowledge on the different WFRD segments and their relevance to the IES domains to identify opportunities for integrated solutions and to design collaboration plan
• Financial understanding of key metrics for project evaluation
• Fluent English both written and verbal
• Ability and willingness to develop business acumen skills through internal and external courses, and practical on the job training.
• Ideally will be currently based in Kuwait

Preferred

• Proven record on conception and execution of collaboration projects.
• Experience in multiple segments or functions relevant to subsurface evaluation domains.
• Experience in previous roles with financial accountability.
• Experience in training, competency and development of peers and junior employees.
• Previous experience in management of Geoscience domains
• Post graduate studies related to Geoscience domains and/or business administration
• Project Management Certificate

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