Biostratigrapher

Raise is currently hiring a contract team member on behalf of our client. They’re expanding their team to meet growing needs, making this a unique opportunity to work with an industry leader.

• Provides specialist strati graphic expertise to oil and gas exploration, appraisal, development, and drilling teams. Using micropaleontology, palynology, calcareous nannofossils, or related fossil disciplines, the role establishes geological age, correlation, depositional environment, and strati graphic frameworks that reduce subsurface uncertainty and support business and operational decisions.
• The successful candidate will analyze fossil assemblages from cuttings, core, sidewall core, and outcrop samples; identify bioevents, unconformities, condensed sections, reworking, cavings, and preservation limitations; and develop defensible age and paleo environmental interpretations. Results will be integrated with well logs, sedimentology, sequence stratigraphy, seismic interpretation, geochemistry, and regional basin frameworks. Typical applications include well correlation, reservoir zonation, prospect evaluation, static-model construction, and pre-drill or real-time well support.
• The role will design fit-for-purpose sampling and analytical programs, prepare pre-drill strati graphic prognoses, and provide operational guidance on formation identification, coring and casing points, section total depth, and strati graphic position ahead of the bit. The individual will also assure the technical quality of internal and contractor-generated work, manage external laboratory studies, maintain auditable datasets and reference collections, and clearly communicate interpretation confidence, alternative hypotheses, and business implications.

• Master’s degree or PhD in geology, paleontology, micropaleontology, palynology, stratigraphy, or a related discipline.
• 10 + years of relevant oil and gas industry experience, including exploration, development, and/or well operations.
• Advanced taxonomic expertise in at least one major fossil discipline, with working knowledge of other biostratigraphic methods preferred.
• Strong understanding of biostratigraphy, chronostratigraphy, sequence stratigraphy, sedimentology, depositional environments, and basin evolution.
• Demonstrated ability to integrate fossil data with well logs, core, seismic, geochemical, and other subsurface datasets.
• Experience delivering single-well, multi-well, field-scale, or regional strati graphic studies.
• Strong technical judgment, uncertainty assessment, report writing, project management, and multidisciplinary communication skills.
• Ability to mentor junior staff, provide technical assurance, and influence decisions without formal authority.

• Expertise in multiple fossil disciplines or extensive knowledge of a strategically important petroleum basin.
• Operational or wellsite biostratigraphy experience, including time-critical drilling support.
• Experience with deepwater clastic, carbonate, pre-salt, unconventional, or structurally complex settings.
• Integration of biostratigraphy with seismic stratigraphy, chemostratigraphy, magnetostratigraphy, geochronology, or reservoir modeling.
• Experience developing regional biozonations, managing laboratory contractors, and harmonizing legacy datasets.
• Familiarity with geological databases, visualization tools, scripting, statistical analysis, automated microscopy, or image-based fossil identification.
• Demonstrated technical leadership through mentoring, publications, conference presentations, or recognized subject-matter-expert status.

Raise is an established hiring firm with over 65 years of experience.…