Supply Chain - Houston, United States - EY

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Houston, United States

1 week ago

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Mark Lane

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Description

Upstream Operations - Energy - Manager - Consulting

The upstream energy industry is facing unprecedented challenges through volatile energy prices, changes to geopolitical landscape and supply and demand fluctuations.

This creates an opportunity for the sector to pivot to a long-term strategy that helps address these challenges through an increased adoption of digital tools and capabilities and increased discipline in reducing operational costs and emissions while maintaining revenues and margins.

As a result, our clients are investing across the board - from refreshing their operational strategy to implementing solutions that can scale across their enterprise.

The opportunity

Recognizing the need of our clients, we have formulated a digital operations team at the cross section of our supply chain and operations competency and energy sector.

You will be working as a part of this team and responsible for helping develop our strategy, approach, solution options and value proposition for our upstream energy clients.

This is a high-profile position that will work with Energy leaders and client serving teams across many EY practices.

Essential Job responsibilities

As a part of this role, you will be responsible for:

Client Delivery

As Energy companies explore opportunities to optimize their operational efficiency, you will help our clients understand areas to achieve operational excellence by examining their processes and tools including emissions reporting, exploration, drilling and completions, production, HSSE, accounting, reliability and engineering and examining operational KPI's that drive costs and revenue.

You will help our clients by crafting a strategy in line with their long-term goals or by implementing innovative and data driven digital solutions to drive speed to value.

You will lead cross competency teams within EY to bring the greatest value for our clients. You will craft and manage commercially viable engagements for EY.

Business Development

The purpose of this role is to help position EY for growth within the Upstream operations sector in this rapidly changing market.

You will help to develop the upstream operations capability within our digital operations team, help author thought leadership material, help develop our 'Go to Market' strategy, develop sales collateral and solution materials to position EY in the market.

You will learn about the various competencies and capabilities within EY. You will play an active role in the sales to delivery lifecycle of engagements.

Required Qualifications

To qualify for the role, you must have the following:

Bachelor's and/or master's degree in Engineering/ Business/ Technology
A minimum of 8 years of Upstream Operations functional experience in drilling, completions, or production operations with a strong background in realtime operating center (ROC) operations
Proficiency in using ROC software and systems for realtime monitoring and decision making
Strong knowledge of drilling/completions/production technologies, equipment, and industry standards
Familiar with upstream oil and gas facility operation and maintenance
Knowledge of safety protocols and regulatory compliance in upstream operations
Demonstrated results in improving the profitability of oil and gas operations and fields using digital tools
Strategic thinking and solutioning skills to craft a strong value proposition
Strong understanding of current solutions in the market and ability to craft a specific point of view for our clients
A keen appetite for technology and innovation while having a technology agnostic perspective
Strong collaboration and teaming skills
Curious mindset and desire to learn and grow
Highly seasoned project management skills and ability to complete multiple tasks in a fastpaced environment
Ability to influence at all levels of the organization, sometimes without authority
Strong executive facilitation skills related to strategy development and problem solving
Exceptional written and oral communications skills (including presentations), as well as listening and interpretation skills
Willingness to go out of your comfort zone to break new grounds and explore part of your Industry Market with which you are not most familiar

Ideally, you will also have

Prior consulting experience and/or industry experience where you have actively driven improvements in optimizing profitability and/or reliability and can translate that to digital use cases
Broad understanding of upstream operations and maintenance tools such as Petrel E&P Platform, Techlog Wellbore Software Platform, DecisionSpace, GeoGraphix, Enertia, Aveva PI, Primavera, and ERP systems such as SAP etc.

What we look for

What we offer

We offer a comprehensive compensation and benefits package where you'll be rewarded based on your performance and recognized for the value you bring to the business.

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