Principal Geologist

This is an exciting opportunity to join Shell's Deepwater Brazil portfolio, contributing significantly to the company's global production, reserves, and free cash flow. As a Principal Geologist, you will lead a team of technical subsurface staff, ensuring the deployment of your team members to work in natural teams in close coordination with the Exploration BOMs and contributing technically where required.

The scope of this role involves leading a team with a focus on growth opportunities generation (play concept generation, lead identification, bid round, and portfolio build and ranking). The Team Lead will report to the One Subsurface Team (OSS) line in Rio de Janeiro and will work closely together with the Exploration and Development Deepwater line of business with staff across multiple locations - London, Rio, and Houston.

• Responsible for line management and formal career development of the Play Fundamentals and PBE (Play-Based Exploration) Team.
• Member of the Prioritization forum to advise on availability and capability for the allocation of individual staff to natural teams.
• Responsible for the minimum required technical quality product.
• Responsible for translating functional improvement plans into team development actions.
• Responsible for technical safety (meet minimum standard - DCAF).
• Responsible for technical coaching of team members and ensuring that staff deployment decisions take development goals into account.
• Key member of the Venture LT in the UPX Line of Business.
• Responsible for encouraging an open dialogue such that challenges and issues are raised through the opportunity line of sight.

• Exploration Geoscientist with substantial subsurface evaluation/exploration experience, a delivery track record, and proven HSSE/NTR experience.
• Someone who feels responsible for the overall delivery performance of all staff members, regardless of their project, discipline, or reporting line.
• Someone who accepts and embraces accountability for supporting staff to deliver the natural team's primary goal and business outcome.
• Passionate about staff development and coaching.
• Someone who shows a learner mindset and genuine enthusiasm, and links staff development to on-the-job learning through project resourcing.
• Prioritizes agility and action over perfection and removes barriers to cross-team collaboration.
• Someone who fosters high trust in team dynamics with a strong collective drive to learn from each other (whether from successes or failures).
• Someone who promotes goal orientation, pride, and inspiration to achieve or exceed the natural team targets and emphasizes team above self.
• Someone who builds staff resilience to adaptive and dynamic change within roles and ways of working in natural teams.

• Must have legal authorization to work in Brazil on a full-time basis for anyone other than the current employer.
• Must have a Bachelor's in Geology or Geophysicist. A Master's/PhD Degree is an added advantage.
• A subsurface professional with a minimum of 12+ years of relevant experience in subsurface evaluation/exploration experience.
• Solid experience in regional evaluation, play to prospect scale interpretation, and risk & volumetric evaluation.
• The ability to integrate effectively with both multiple disciplines and the broader business is essential.
• Strong focus on solving problems and providing effective solutions to the business whilst managing multiple projects.
• Track record of stakeholder management, change management, and cultural awareness.
• Demonstrated team working, networking, and interpersonal skills.
• Fluent written and spoken Portuguese & English is essential. Well-developed reporting and presentation skills are helpful.