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The Opportunity:
Join our team as a Reservoir Geomechanics Engineer, where you will have the opportunity to directly impact commercial scale thermal operations and the overall success of Canadian Natural. You will apply your demonstrated expertise in data integration and the use of numerical modeling for Reservoir Geomechanics to optimize thermal operation strategies at our world class facilities.
Key Accountabilities:
- Work in a multi-disciplinary team environment to optimize operational strategies and/or development plans with the ultimate focus on maintaining and growing production, in an environmentally sustainable way
- Quantify the Geomechanical impact of thermal operations on the reservoir and caprock integrity
- Improve assurance of technical and operational Geomechanical risks
- Design and implement Geomechanical field data acquisition
- Linking field based observations with mechanistic explanation of Geomechanical impacts
- Analog data study and identification of important Geomechanical influences
- Numerical modeling of reservoir Geomechanics
- Geomechanical laboratory testing guidance and review (including a world class data set for over 8 km of overburden core)
Other Details:
- Job location: Calgary, Alberta
- Shift schedule: 5x2 - Monday to Friday, 8 hours/day
- This is a safety sensitive position
Skills & Qualifications:
- 2 to 10 years of industry experience in Geomechanical engineering with a B.Sc. in Engineering
- Expertise in:
- Data integration
- Data analysis
- Numerical modeling for reservoir geomechanics
- M.Sc. or PhD. considered a strong asset
- Registration or eligibility for registration with APEGA
- Demonstrated problem solving, communication, organization and leadership skills
What We Offer:
- Competitive salary, stock options, company matched stock savings plan, annual bonuses
- May be eligible for relocation pursuant to Canadian Natural’s Relocation Policy
- 100% Employer paid extended Health, Dental and Vision Benefits
- Health & Wellness Spending Account
- Multiple volunteer opportunities within the community
- Employee & Family Assistance Program
- Access to online learning platforms for continuous learning and development
- Paid vacation and time off during Christmas week and summer Fridays
Check out our COMPENSATION & BENEFITS to learn more about what we have to offer!
Why Canadian Natural?
CANADIAN NATURAL is a senior independent crude oil and natural gas exploration, development and production company based in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Our strong, diversified asset base is comprised of a balanced portfolio of light, synthetic, and heavy crude oil and natural gas. Canadian Natural operates in Canada, the United Kingdom and Offshore Africa.
At Canadian Natural, we strive to live through our mission statement: "To develop people to work together to create value for the Company's shareholders by doing it right with fun and integrity." We are committed to a long-term presence in the communities where we operate. Our activities create value by providing employment, business development opportunities, revenues to governments that contribute to spending on goods and services, and essential resources for public services, including health, safety, education and training.
Over the last 30 years, we have grown from a Company with nine employees to over 10,000 employees. We have increased our production from approximately 400 BOE/d in 1989 to more than one million BOE/d today.
Safety is a core value at Canadian Natural. We conduct all of our operations in a way that identifies, minimizes and mitigates harm to the health and safety of employees, contractors, the public and the environment.
Canadian Natural Resources Limited – “Canadian Natural” - is a publicly traded company on the TSX and NYSE as CNQ.
Application deadline is March 8, 2024. Apply now!
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