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Subsurface Risk Specialist

Washington, DC, us🌐 Remote💼 Full-time🗓 2026-06-11 → 2026-09-26

Core

Provide independent engineering advisory services for technical due diligence, credit evaluation, and lifecycle monitoring of upstream oil & gas exploration and production projects for the U.S. Department of Energy.

Role type

Senior Independent Engineering Consultant (Subsurface Risk Specialist)

Builds

Lender-ready due diligence reports, risk registers, resource validation, and development risk summaries for DOE financing decisions.

Domain

Energy (Upstream Oil & Gas) / Independent Engineering Advisory

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | research | client delivery | infrastructure | physical/clinical work

Required skills

Reservoir risk evaluation, geological uncertainty analysis, geophysical data review, resource validation, development risk assessment, data room review, report writing, stakeholder coordination, Excel-based analysis

Preferred skills

PE license, PMP, CSP, API, NACE/AMPP, PMI, experience with DOE Loan Programs Office documentation style

Technologies

Excel

Responsibilities

Review project documentation to identify technical and commercial risks, validate assumptions for subsurface uncertainty and reserves, prepare defensible work products including risk registers and basin analysis, coordinate with engineering, finance, legal, and operations stakeholders, support conditions precedent and disbursement readiness reviews

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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