Position Title: Data Technician
Permanent / Contract: Contract
Location: Houston TX, USA
Position Summary
The Data Technician is an individual contributor providing support to the Well Factory within the Bakken asset, reporting through the Subsurface team. The person in this role works closely with the Subsurface team to assimilate, QC, manage and analyze data, and automate workflows to support team objectives.
In addition, the person will work directly with the Data Management team daily to ensure databases remain organized and updated. They should be able to evaluate problems and propose solutions to rectify moderate to difficult issues. This may include developing new or innovative strategies to solve business problems within the asset/organization's framework. The candidate will be expected to work as an integrated part of the larger Bakken asset team, and collaborate with others in the internal technician community to define and promote best practices.
Roles and Responsibilities:
- Experienced with data manipulation, processing and analysis of large data sets
- Own and automate processes to extract data from static reports into SQL databases
- Building, maintaining and improving databases
- Constructing data visualizations in Spotfire with advanced user interaction
- Responsible for creating weekly production reports to support asset management
- Coordinate with other departments to acquire information or report data and activities
- Support Corporate processes such as year-end reserves, budget and plan, and AFE's
- Support development and maintenance of project metrics and dashboards
- Collaborate with IT to resolve bugs and implement enhancements in third-party applications
- Willingness to learn additional software packages to support team needs and continuous improvement efforts
Qualifications:
- Experience with data manipulation, management and QC, and analysis
- Proficient in Excel, VBA, Spotfire, and SQL
- Must be detail oriented with an investigative mind and ability to troubleshoot
- Must be a proven team player able to manage multiple concurrent priorities
- Natural desire and motivation to improve efficiency of current processes
- High performance delivery focus with an emphasis on task ownership and completion. Self-motivated with an enthusiastic, methodical and diligent approach
Preferred Experience, but not required
- Programming experience (i.e. Python)
- Access database development and maintenance experience
- Experience with Whitson+, ComboCurve, and Azure Databricks
- Experience with machine learning models
- Oil and Gas
Education / Training
Bachelor's degree in engineering, data analytics, or IT/computer science related