The energy industry – oil & gas sector in particular – is bracing itself for a massive wave of retirements over the short to medium term, which has been dubbed “The Great Shift Change.” As the industry prepares for this turnover, companies are looking to the next generation of candidates with skills ranging from finance, geology, engineering, law, etc.

Additionally, lots of exciting opportunities are opening up in various renewable energy sectors as technological advancements rapidly disrupt traditional utility business models. The energy efficiency business is also growing by leaps and bounds, as significant cost saving benefits associated with using less energy are an easy sell for most businesses.  

With these issues in mind, Breaking Energy highlights a few interesting energy jobs on a weekly basis.     

Business Analyst – Procurement 

Chevron; Makati, Philippines

Responsibilities for this position may include but are not limited to:

• Deliver recurring business performance reports to customers on time.
• Provides analytical support to different PSCM SS teams in preparing and consolidating of data and reports required by customers.
• Consolidates and monitors performance of all PSCM SS teams against business plan and service level agreement (SLA) targets.
• Develops business performance reporting expertise within PSCM SS.
• Develops or assist in the development of regular and ad-hoc business performance reports and decision support packages for management and customers.
• Maintains monthly employee roster report from Human Resources (HR). Resolves inconsistencies.
• Receives and compiles resource utilization reports from teams. Highlights to management significant variances against planned allocations.
• Partners with PSCM SS LT to develop business plan targets during the business planning cycle. Works with DT&S Capability Team and local MSSC’s Business Planning Team for budget consolidation and allocation.
• Coordinates with MSSC’s Business Planning and Budgeting Analyst
• Provides analytical support for benchmarking, cost management, and other corporate-wide initiatives.
• Acts as project resource for DT&S and corporate-wide initiatives on budget and reporting impacting PSCM SS Manila.
• Works with DT&S Capability Team (i.e., Customer Interaction Analyst) to develop and review Service Level Agreements (SLA) for PSCM SS customers.
• Works with PSCM SS LT to forecast and monitor expenditures. Highlights to management significant variances against planned expenses.
• Develops and presents business cases (i.e., return on investment) on key initiatives for PSCM SS projects.

Required Qualifications: 

• Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Finance or Business required
• Has a strong business analytic skill.
• Must be experienced using Microsoft office products: Word, PowerPoint, and Visio
• Experienced with creating complex excel reports, charts, macros , and use of advanced Excel functions
• Good communications skills and ability to work effectively with others
• Must be able to successfully manage multiple tasks with conflicting deadlines successfully
• Must be strong team player and successfully work with minimal supervision

Preferred Qualifications: 

• Basic knowledge in Finance(specific to budget and billing process) and Procurement processes is strongly desirable.
• Basic experience in the use of Ariba, SAP, or JDE within Chevron is desirable.

Relocation Options: 

• Relocation may be/will not be considered within Chevron parameters. *LI-EG1

International Considerations:

• Expatriate assignments will not be considered.

Discover your strengths and invest in your future by applying today.

Geomatics Operations Surveyor 

Shell; Majnoon, India

As Geomatics Operations Surveyor you will:

• Conduct all work under your control in a safe and environmentally sound manner that complies with all company policies, standards, procedures and legal requirements.
• Strive to demonstrate leadership in HSE and technical excellence in all contacts with all relevant stakeholders.
• Play a leading role in strengthening Geomatics links to activities such as geophysics, engineering/design projects, and well engineering.
• Develop and maintain spatial data management systems.
• Plan and execute survey projects, including preparation of contract or tender documents, monitoring progress against plan, technical assessment of activities and deliverables; maintain effective and timely communication with contractors, customers and other stakeholders and close-out reporting.
• Plan and execute Geomatics or remote sensing projects to provide services, tools and products to customers. * Provide expert advice to customers, colleagues and other stakeholders.
• Actively participate in a global peer network, sharing best practices and experiences, with a view to continuously improve Geomatics operations services.
• Take on an active coaching role for young Geomaticians, transferring relevant technical knowledge and knowledge of workflows.

This position of Geomatics Operations Surveyor requires:

• Deep appreciation of spatial data integrity and data quality in EP activities.
• Deep understanding of geomatics survey measurement acquisition techniques onshore
• Adequate understanding of associated disciplines such as GIS, geodesy, remote sensing, cartography, and geography and the ability to apply relevant principles from those disciplines.
• Ability to apply relevant geodetic and quality assurance principles to survey planning, survey project execution and data processing
• Ability to establish and maintain an effective relation with contractors and customers regarding project objectives, plans, costs and safety-critical activities.
• Experience in the use of GIS software and with positioning and GPS processing software
• Experience with hands-on field surveying activities onshore, including survey data processing software and data management aspects.
• Previous experience with contract and project management
• Demonstration of high awareness of, and commitment to, HSE and hazard management
• Ability to translate customer requirements into technical and expert advice
• Excellent influencing skills, based on effective balancing of listening and advocacy skills.
• Strong delivery-driven business-focus;
• Active interest in developments in the survey market, both of a business and technical nature.
• Excellent teamworking and interpersonal skills, applied in a multi-disciplinary and multi-cultural environment, in which diversity is valued.
• Strong communication skills, effective in timeliness and clarity.

Discover your strengths and invest in your future by applying today.

Lead User Experience Designer Job 

SuccessFactors; San Francisco, CA, US

What you will do:

• Study users to deeply understand their SSNiFs (stakeholders, situations, needs leading to the right features)
• Work with product managers to understand the business requirements and help sculpt the product vision
• Generate design briefs to ensure alignment on the problem definition and assumptions
• Coordinate the efforts of UX colleagues supporting your projects (visual design, user research, usability).
• Generate models that form the theoretical foundation for great solutions: workflow diagrams, flowcharts, storyboards, personas and more.
• Work with UX design colleagues in other areas to generate more creative ideas, and to ensure cross-suite consistency and integration
• Explore multiple design directions to envision the best possible solution
• Create rapid interactive prototypes as needed to simulate interactions using a tool such as Axure.
• Design UXes for web, phone and tablet
• Work with visual designers to make the experience aesthetically pleasing
• Work with user researchers to do up-front user research, and to validate the product concepts and designs
• Deliver detailed specs and assets to engineering
• Support engineering during the development phase to make sure your designs are faithfully built
• Capture advancements to our standards in our style guide for others to use
• Conduct Kaizen projects to advance our collective thinking or processes

About you:

• You have a portfolio of modern, sophisticated interaction designs for web and mobile applications.  Experience designing simple consumer-grade products.
• 5+ experience designing highly interactive mobile and web applications for consumers
• At least a bachelor’s degree in something.  (Your portfolio matters more.)
• You have strong design intuition and a natural ability to empathize with different personas
• You are a meticulous craftsperson with strong attention to detail
• You know how to cut through to the essence of a problem and extract simplicity out of complexity.
• You are comfortable representing abstract concepts visually with workflows, wireflows, site maps, concept diagrams and other models.
• You have good conceptual and big-picture design skills including: user experience architecture, information architecture.
• You have solid information design skills, and can create layouts that clearly communicate the right story.
• You are adept at designing both macro and micro-interactions
• You are up to speed in the latest design trends on both web and mobile
• You have excellent verbal and written skills.  You are able to persuade others of your good ideas.
• You are comfortable building rapid prototypes and scripting interactions to simulate the user experience
• You are comfortable with user research and usability methods
• You are positive and optimistic, with a constant thirst to learn and grow.
• You can gracefully give and receive critical design feedback
• You understand the strengths and limitations of modern web technologies
• You are in tune with the latest interactive and visual design trends and thinking
• You have a strong work ethic.  You have a solid process, while being focused on outcomes.

Lead-level candidates will have:

• Richer and deeper skills and experience in the above items
• A history of lead design projects.  You are able to plan what UX activities to do when, and can organize the other members of the UX team (visual design, user research) to deliver great solutions on time.
• Solid UX architectural ability
• Professional maturity.  An awareness of how to get things done within an organization.

Pluses

• Visual design skills
• Experience and aptitude at motion graphics
• Experience in game design
• Experience designing for cloud application software
• Experience managing, mentoring and/or art directing other visual designers

Discover your strengths and invest in your future by applying today.