General Manager, Reservoir Engineering

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JERA Americas Inc. is part of a global energy company, supporting the transition to a cleaner, more sustainable world while fulfilling our responsibility to provide a safe and stable supply of reliable and affordable energy. The Company is a subsidiary of Tokyo-based JERA, which stands for Japan’s Energy for a New Era. JERA has committed to achieving net zero CO2 emissions from its businesses by 2050 and is contributing to the development of a sustainable society.

JERA Americas seeks to continue its rapid expansion into renewable energy markets focusing on wind, solar, and cutting-edge technologies for hydrogen production and transportation. To meet the challenges of a fast-growing company, we are searching for talented individuals who thrive in a fast-paced environment and want to be part of the equation to provide energy for a new era.

The General Manager, Reservoir Engineering, will provide strategic, technical, commercial, and organizational leadership for the reservoir engineering function of a new upstream oil and gas company. The role will be responsible for building and leading a high-performing reservoir engineering organization, establishing fit-for-purpose workflows and processes, supporting the creation of an operating model, and ensuring that reservoir management, development optimization, reserves, economics, and commercial inputs are integrated into high-quality investment and operating decisions.

The role will lead reservoir and development optimization for the South Mansfield asset while serving as a key technical leader in the identification, evaluation, acquisition, and integration of upstream opportunities for conventional and unconventional plays in the United States and globally.

• Lead the reservoir engineering function across reservoir management, field development planning, production forecasting, reserves and resource assessment, and completion and development optimization for conventional and unconventional oil and gas resources.
• Build, organize, and develop a multidisciplinary reservoir engineering team, including defining roles, accountabilities, governance interfaces, technical assurance processes, and capability development priorities.
• Create practical workflows, processes, data standards, peer reviews, and decision frameworks required to stand up a new upstream company and enable consistent evaluation, planning, and investment recommendations.
• Support the design and implementation of the company’s upstream operating model, including interfaces with subsurface, drilling and completions, operations, commercial, legal, finance, business development, and executive leadership.
• Lead integrated development optimization for the South Mansfield asset, including well spacing and stacking, landing-zone selection, drilling sequence, lateral length, completion design, parent-child and depletion effects, and surveillance and data-acquisition planning.
• Own type curves, production forecasts, reserves inputs, uncertainty ranges, and performance lookbacks, applying material balance, rate- and pressure-transient analysis, decline-curve analysis, and numerical simulation as appropriate.
• Provide technical and commercial leadership for opportunity screening, technical due diligence, valuation, portfolio prioritization, asset maturation, and post-acquisition integration for acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, and farm-ins worldwide.
• Lead reserves and resource evaluation consistent with applicable SEC and SPE-PRMS requirements, coordinate with independent reserves auditors, and maintain auditable forecast, reserves, and economic assumptions.
• Direct well, project, asset, and portfolio level…