Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Job Family Group:

Petroleum Engineering

Worker Type:

Regular

Posting Start Date:

May 5, 2026

Business Unit:

Projects and Technology

Experience Level:

Experienced Professionals

Job Description:

Whats the role

Strategic Programme Leadership

• Own and lead multiyear, highvalue Reservoir Engineering R&D programmes, setting technical ambition, delivery strategy, performance metrics, and value realization plans.

• Translate asset and business needs into focused, investmentgrade R&D initiatives with clear technical and commercial outcomes. often under uncertainty and evolving asset priorities. Maturity to frame, scope and lead the execution of multiple R&D projects independently without supervision.

• Provide technical and strategic leadership across both internal and external R&D delivery teams, ensuring alignment of partner led research with Shells Reservoir Engineering standards, asset needs, and value realization objectives.

PreSalt Carbonate Reservoir Authority

• Act as senior technical integrator and reference point for presalt carbonate reservoirs across Shell Brasil Technology.

• Lead R&D themes across carbonate characterization, dynamic modelling, recovery mechanisms, SCAL/digital rock, monitoring, uncertainty reduction, and upscaling.

Portfolio & Governance Accountability

• Accountable for Reservoir Engineering elements of the ANP R&D portfolio, ensuring: (i) Regulatory compliance, (ii) Budget discipline and schedule control and (iii)Technical quality, technology maturation and benefit tracking

• Drive simplification, prioritization, and termination decisions where programmes do not meet performance or strategic thresholds.

• Ensure effective technical and commercial governance of externally executed R&D programmes, including universities and technology providers, with clear decision rights, performance metrics, and escalation mechanisms.

Safety, Quality & Risk Leadership

• Senior accountability for safe execution of laboratory, onshore, and offshore R&D activities, including new laboratory buildouts and facility upgrades.

• Set nonnegotiable standards for HSE, research integrity, data governance, and external partner performance.

Integration, Influence & Capability Building

• Lead seniorlevel engagement with assets, global SMEs, co-ventures, ANP, vendors, academia and technology partners, acting as a credible Reservoir Engineering authority capable of steering complex technical discussions and research direction.

• Coach senior and junior professionals; build longterm Reservoir Engineering capability and succession depth within Shell Brasil.

• Strong leadership to influence internal and external stakeholders to achieve targets under a dynamic scenario, including misaligned timelines and priorities across asset teams, SMEs, and academic or industry partners delivering Shell funded R&D.

What you bring

• Must have legal authorization to work in Brazil on a full-time basis for anyone other than the current employer

• Postgraduate degree in Reservoir Engineering, Petroleum Engineering, or equivalent subsurface discipline.

• At least 10 years of experience in reservoir engineering and subsurface disciplines, with strong exposure to complex carbonate systems (ideally Brazilian presalt).

• Background in R&D leadership, asset support, or senior technical roles is required; practical experience delivering R&D projects is a plus.

• Expertise in carbonate reservoir behavior and recovery; SCAL, digital rock, and advanced laboratory programs; and reservoir modeling and simulation, including monitoring and uncertainty management.

• Demonstrated application of advanced methods and digital/AI solutions in subsurface decisionmaking, with the ability to engage deeply with academic and industry research teams, critically evaluate methodologies and results, and translate research outcomes into practical Reservoir Engineering applications.

• Strong capability in problem framing and decisionmaking under uncertainty and competing priorities, with the ability to articulate clear tradeoffs and deliver valuebased recommendations to management.

• Proven track record in simplifying complex challenges, challenging nonvalueadding work, and focusing teams on outcomes that matter. Demonstrated entrepreneurial leadership in originating, shaping, and managing strategic R&D partnerships with universities and technology companies, ensuring sustained technical leadership, influence, and value realization within the Brazilian ANP R&D context.

• Executivelevel communication skills in Portuguese and English.

• Ability to influence and steer senior internal and external stakeholders across business, technical, and regulatory environments.

• It is required frequent travel (25%)

What we offer

You bring your skills and experience to Shell and in return you work with talented, committed people on one of the most important challenges facing our planet. Youll have the opportunity to develop the skills you need to grow in an environment where we value honesty, integrity, and respect for one another. Youll be able to balance your priorities as you become the best version of yourself.

• Progress as a person as we work on the energy transition together.

• Continuously grow the transferable skills you need to get ahead.

• Work at the forefront of technology, trends, and practices.

• Collaborate with experienced colleagues with unique expertise.

• Achieve your balance in a values-led culture that encourages you to be the best version of yourself.

• Benefit from flexible working hours, and the possibility of remote/mobile working.

• Perform at your best with a competitive starting salary and annual performance related salary increase our pay and benefits packages are considered to be among the best in the world.

• Take advantage of paid parental leave, including for non-birthing parents.

• Join an organisation working to become one of the most diverse and inclusive in the world. We strongly encourage applicants of all genders, ages, ethnicities, cultures, abilities, sexual orientation, and life experiences to apply.

• Grow as you progress through diverse career opportunities in national and international teams.

• Gain access to a wide range of training and development programmes.

We'd like you to know that Shell has a bold goal: to become one of the worlds most diverse and inclusive companies. You can get to know more about how we're working towards that goal, click here.

Shell in Brazil

Who We Are

Shell is a global group of energy and petrochemical companies, employing 85,000 people and with operations in more than 70 countries. We use advanced technologies and take an innovative approach as we seek to help the world build a sustainable energy future.

Shell is a customer-focused organisation, serving more than 1 million commercial and industrial customers, and around 33 million customers daily at more than 47,000 Shell-branded retail service stations.

Our approach

Shells strategy is to deliver more value with less emissions as we work to become a net-zero emissions business by 2050.

As we navigate the energy transition through the next decade, we will leverage our global footprint, the trust in our brand, and our innovation and technology capabilities to be the energy company that customers and countries choose to be their partner. We are positioning Shell to become the investment case and partner of choice through the energy transition.

Our values

At Shell, we share a set of core values honesty, integrity and respect for people which underpin all the work we do. The Shell General Business Principles, Code of Conduct and Ethics and Compliance Manual help everyone at Shell act in line with these values and comply with relevant laws and regulations.

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