Technical Assistant

Technical Assistant
Aberdeen
£ Competitive + benefits

Our client is one of the largest independent crude oil and natural gas producers in the world. They seek with immediate effect a Technical Assistant to be based at their offices in Aberdeen. This is a key position within the Production Department. As Technical Assistant you will be responsible for trending production data, identifying anomalies and reporting this to the Production engineers. Ensuring production data is QC'd, allocated and stored in the electronic database system. You will assist with maintaining records of well test data, fluid compositions. Included in this will be daily tracking and storage of well data.

Responsibilities include: *Provide general technical support to production, operations, environmental and safety engineers across all areas. *Ensure that all activities are carried out in a safe and efficient manner to comply with statutory and regulatory requirements. *Build and maintain database used by engineers to support production data analysis (temperature, pressure, flow, etc.). *Provide support to company's Annual Business Planning Cycle process *Work with Operations to facilitate execution of well surveillance activities *Issue surveillance reports. *Issue monthly Partner reports. *Assist with data gathering for monthly Key Performance Indicators (KPI's) *Responsible for populating the Divisions weekly production forecast volumes. *Long Term forecasting assistance *Annual Budget planning assistance. *Life of Field (LOF) planning assistance. *Work with Production Engineers to generate short term forecasts. *Responsible for working with the Production Engineers to gain platform annual flare, vent and Production Consents. *Data gathering and analysis. Preparation of databases, reports, procedures and graphical presentations as required. *Participate in Emergency Response activities. *Transfer of data between databases. *Ad hoc production allocation between wells and field under guidance of Production Engineer. *Ad hoc requirement to develop plans, schedules and time-frames *Expected to visit offshore *Ad hoc requirement to assist in the acquisition process for new ventures As Technical Assistant you'll have an advanced knowledge of Microsoft Excel and be familiar with flow dynamics. You'll have a positive approach to your work, a self-starter and be able to work on your own initiative. You'll ideally have experience in a similar role within the oil and gas industry.