Principal Subsurface Workflow Advisor
6?Month Contract
Perth CBD, 8 hrs/day
About the Role
The Principal Subsurface Workflow Advisor provides high?level technical leadership across subsurface data, technology, and workflow domains. This role ensures the integrity, quality, and accessibility of subsurface data while driving strategic improvements across geoscience, reservoir, production, GIS, and permit data environments.
You will lead cross?functional initiatives, oversee subsurface computing environments, and deliver strategic tooling that supports exploration and development decision?making. This position requires deep technical expertise, strong stakeholder engagement, and the ability to influence across multiple disciplines.
Key Responsibilities
- Ensure safe operations in line with company policies, protecting people, assets, and the environment
- Manage subsurface data across geoscience, reservoir, production, GIS, and permit domains
- Maintain data quality, standards, governance, and compliance
- Lead cross?functional initiatives to improve data acquisition, loading, archiving, and accessibility
- Oversee data flow into and out of corporate and project data stores
- Manage QA/QC processes to maintain a reliable upstream subsurface database
- Own and optimise the Subsurface Petrotechnical Computing environment, including current?state assessment and future?state planning
- Deliver strategic subsurface tooling, including project planning, execution, migration, and post?deployment support
- Provide expert guidance on subsurface workflows, technologies, and data lifecycle management
Subsurface Expertise
- Strong understanding of subsurface data standards, workflows, and deliverables
- Knowledge of petrotechnical interpretation platforms and modern subsurface technologies
- Familiarity with hybrid and cloud infrastructure options (Cegal, WSaaS, AWS Local, Azure Local)
- Experience with upstream data types, archiving, retention, and E&P asset lifecycle
- Strong grasp of data quality control and geoscience knowledge domains
Skills & Experience
- Experience as a Petrotechnical, Data, or Technology Manager across well, seismic, spatial, production, HPC, or system admin domains
- Experience within operator subsurface teams or service?company technical environments
- Strong cross?functional collaboration skills
- Ability to synthesise and prioritise large volumes of information
- Proven ability to meet strict timelines
- Strong communication skills, able to explain data and technology concepts to both technical and non?technical audiences
About Airswift
Airswift is an international workforce solutions provider within the energy, process and infrastructure industries. Airswift serves as a strategic partner to our clients, offering a turnkey workforce solution to capture and deliver the top talent needed to complete successful projects by aligning with the unique needs of our clients.
With over 1000 employees and 9,000+ contractors operating in over 130 countries, our geographical reach and pool of talent available is unmatched in the industry and the level of experience, exposure and expertise that the organization has is unparalleled.
Only candidates with the right to work in Australia will be considered. (Australia Citizen, PR Holder, or Valid Australia working VISA)
If you would like to be considered for the position, please apply directly to this advertisement or send your application via email to caryl.isuan@airswift.com with your updated CV/ resume & contact details. Alternatively, you may contact Caryl at +61 8 6318 1100 for more information.