Location: Libya
Job Purpose:
The Subsurface Manager is responsible for leading petroleum engineering and subsurface-related functions of the asset to ensure optimal reserves development, efficient production, and maximized hydrocarbon recovery.
- Lead and oversee all subsurface activities including reservoir engineering, production engineering, geology, and geophysics.
- Supervise subsurface characterization and modeling to support asset evaluation and development planning.
- Act as the technical authority for subsurface disciplines within the asset.
- Provide technical leadership for conceptual design and feasibility studies related to drilling, completions, reservoir, and production engineering.
- Ensure integration of subsurface data to optimize field development plans and recovery strategies.
- Support well planning and execution, ensuring alignment with reservoir objectives.
- Monitor reservoir performance and recommend optimization strategies to enhance production.
- Collaborate with drilling, facilities, and operations teams to ensure integrated asset management.
- Review and validate technical studies, simulations, and development scenarios.
- Ensure compliance with company standards, HSE policies, and regulatory requirements in Libya.
- Strong technical leadership and decision-making skills.
- Ability to manage multidisciplinary teams.
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving capabilities.
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Ability to work in challenging and remote environments.
- Willingness to work in remote or field locations, including rotational schedules if required.
- Understanding of regional operational and cultural environment is an advantage.
- Flexibility to operate in a dynamic and evolving work environment.
- Bachelor’s degree in Petroleum Engineering, Geology, Geophysics, or related discipline (Master’s preferred).
- Minimum 10–15 years of experience in subsurface or petroleum engineering roles.
- Proven experience in reservoir management, field development, and production optimization.
- Experience in complex environments (onshore/offshore, mature fields, or high-risk areas) is highly desirable.
- Strong understanding of subsurface modeling, reservoir simulation, and integrated asset studies.
- Previous leadership or managerial experience is required.
SLB is an equal employment opportunity employer. Qualified applicants are considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or other characteristics protected by law.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Petroleum Engineering, Geology, Geophysics, or a related discipline
- Minimum 10–15 years of experience in subsurface or petroleum engineering roles
- Proven experience in reservoir management, field development, and production optimization
- Strong understanding of subsurface modeling, reservoir simulation, and integrated asset studies
- Previous leadership or managerial experience
- Master's degree in a relevant discipline
- Experience in complex onshore/offshore, mature-field, or high-risk environments
- Willingness to work in remote or field locations, including rotational schedules
What We Do
We are a technology company that unlocks access to energy for the benefit of all. As innovators, that’s been our mission for nearly a century. Today, we face a global imperative to create a future with more energy, but less carbon. Our diverse, innovative change makers are focused on going further in innovation and inventing the new energy technologies we need to get there.
