Job description
Weatherford is a leading global energy services company. Our world-class experts partner with customers to optimize their resources and realize the full potential of their assets. Across our operating locations, including manufacturing, research and development, service and training facilities, operators choose us for strategic solutions that add efficiency, flexibility, and responsibility to any energy operation.
We are focused on technology development, digital solutions, and defining our footprint in the new energy space. Our ability to provide integrated solutions across our segments will be critical to growth in our core operations and the energy transition
Energy producers face unique challenges every day, so it is our job to create solutions that enhance safety, streamline operations, and sustain uptime to meet or exceed their targets. We operate across the global energy landscape employing some of the best diverse talent in the industry. At Weatherford, we understand the value each individual brings to the table. We celebrate diversity in all its forms and are immensely proud of our workforce. We invite you to join our passionate, talented, word-class team.
When you join Weatherford, you instantly feel connected to something bigger - a community that is grounded by our core values and driven to create innovative solutions for our customers. We celebrate each others successes, grow together, and learn from each other constantly. Individually, we are impressive. Together, we are unstoppable. We are One Weatherford.
Weatherford offers competitive compensation, a comprehensive benefits program and provides you a challenging and enriching career path, with a healthy balance of structure and flexibility to chart your own course.
Weatherford is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age. disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.
Responsibilities:Weatherford have a very exciting opportunity for a Graduate Data/Sensor Scientist to join the team in East Leake, near Loughborough, UK. The Graduate Data/Sensor Engineer will be working within the established Data Science and Sensor Measurements Team and your role will be to develop processing algorithms, analyse data and characterise sensor measurements for the purpose of improving the answer products delivered to our clients. Working in close cooperation with Production, Manufacturing, Engineering and Software departments, you will optimise workflows, develop novel processing algorithms, and perform statistical analyses. The areas of our measurements fall broadly into 4 categories: mechanical, electrical, acoustic, and nuclear and the expectation would be the development of your expertise in one or more of these categories.
Responsibilities & Duties:
- Research and development of novel remote sensing methods and techniques.
- Optimisation of sensors and processing algorithms.
- Application of novel signal / image processing methods, including inversion techniques and machine learning.
- Provide support for existing systems including but not limited to calibration, systems analysis, trouble shooting and error management.
- Collaborate on various business unit projects.
- Understand and provide analysis on subsurface data in the context of energy services.
- Develop solutions to our subsurface evaluation needs.
- Provide documentation and regular reports to project stakeholders.
- Disseminate your work via peer-reviewed publications.
Qualifications:
- A degree or equivalent in Data Science / Mathematics / Physics or a related science discipline.
- Proficiency in mathematical programming languages (e.g. MATLAB, Python).
- Good understanding of data pre-processing and various analytical methods.
- Strong experience working with time series data.
- Ability to summarise complex ideas to the wider organisation.
- Good interpersonal and communications skills.
- Intrinsic interest in data science techniques.
- An innovative mindset.
- Willingness to learn and develop.
- Drive for results, enthusiasm, with a good proactive work ethic.
- Excellent attention to detail and a high level of integrity.
- Willingness to collaborate in a diverse team.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office products.
- Driving license would be preferred.
- 2+ years practical experience in a data science role applying signal processing and/or machine learning algorithms.
- Exposure to geophysical measurements an advantage.