Spirit Energy
Information & Samples Coordinator
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HAVE YOU GOT SPIRIT?
Succeeding in today’s energy landscape requires collaboration, agility, and the courage to challenge established ways of working. At Spirit Energy, we are redefining what good looks like in mature basin operations — focusing on safe, responsible asset stewardship, value maximization, and the delivery of an orderly energy transition. Achieving this requires a broad mix of skills, experience, and perspectives. Our people are central to how we operate — bringing curiosity, accountability, and pragmatism to complex technical and commercial challenges. If you are ready to take the next step in your career with a forward-thinking team committed to doing things better and differently, we would like to hear from you.
THE OPPORTUNITY – INFORMATION & SAMPLES COORDINATOR
The Information & Samples Coordinator (ISC) is the company focal point to the NSTA for regulatory compliance relating to subsurface, wells, decommissioning, production, and infrastructure data and physical samples and records. The role ensures that all information and samples obligations under the Energy Act 2016, and subsequent regulations and guidelines, are delivered accurately, on time, and in accordance with corporate and regulatory standards.
The role is accountable for regulatory-compliant data and samples management across the full asset lifecycle, with particular focus on end-of-life assets and decommissioning phases. Ensuring high-quality submissions to NSTA systems, successful legacy data remediation, and robust governance of subsurface and other information and physical/digital archives.
Location: Barrow-in-Furness
Duration: 2-year contract
Contract Type: PAYE
Day Rate: TBC - For your application to be progressed, please ensure you provide a PAYE day rate banding expectation. Please only apply if you have existing right to work in the UK. Please outline notice period/availability to start.
Spirit Energy currently has a non-contractual hybrid working arrangement for all office-based workers. 4 days must be worked in the office with compulsory days being Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. The fourth day worked in-office (either Monday or Friday) is of the worker’s choosing but should be in keeping with what is most efficient and effective for their team. The office is open 5 days a week for full-time, in-office working if this is the contractor’s preference.
AND NOW FOR THE TECHNICAL BIT…
In role, you will be required to:
Regulatory Compliance & Statutory Reporting (NSTA)
- Accountable for regular formal engagement with NSTA Data Compliance team:
- Attend annual ISC review at NSTA premises
- Review and discuss annual Teir-Zero data compliance scoring
- Monitor ISC inbox daily
- Regular meetings and communications around NDR, ISP’s, missing data, calls for legacy data
- Lead the delivery of timely and accurate NSTA statutory submissions, including:
- Infrastructure Bi-Annual GIS submissions
- Stewardship Survey (Annual)
- Decommissioning & Relinquishment data reporting
- CoP Production data reporting
- WIOS (Well Information & Operations System) data corrections
- WUNS / WONS data creation and reconciliation
- Manage and respond to Missing Data Requests (Section 34 Notices) within required 30-day deadlines (including samples)
- Accountable for agreed legacy and decommissioning data submission plans to be delivered adequately and on time, where agreement reached with NSTA on scope and timeline
- Lead coordination and preparation for future NSTA Calls for Data
- Full responsibility for data compliance with Information & Samples (I&S) across all reporting activities
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Information & Samples Lifecycle Management (Digital & Physical Archives)
- Accountable for submission of digital data to the National Data Repository (NDR), including:
- Seismic and Site surveys (including reprocessing events)
- Wellbore and legacy datasets
- Lead the interface between ISC and IS team to manage digital data storage and disposal, whilst safeguarding Energy Act compliance
- Accountable for samples and physical archives, ensuring:
- Statutory reporting compliance to the British Geological Society (BGS) within statutory guidelines
- Appropriate retention, transfer, and disposal.
- Lead review of archives required to ensure compliance with decommissioning phases and NSTA approval of well ownership in perpetuity
- Lead the interface between ISC and IM teams to capture time and cost synergies for storage solutions and disposal
- Manage suitable disposal of fluids in storage
- Produce, maintain, and track Information & Samples Plans (ISP):
- For Decommissioning and Relinquishment Licence events
- Ensure delivery of high-quality GIS/mapping included
- Responsible for ISP regular communication with NSTA data compliance team
- Lead review into ISP execution and statutory obligations relating to previous ISP’s
- Lead interface of ISP delivery with asset lifecycle events and UKCS Licensing liaising with Decommissioning team and Legal and Commercial.
- Ensure ISP commitments are met and are auditable
Subsurface, Wells and Infrastructure Data Management & Technical Computing Support
- Manage regulatory compliance of application projects, and data therein, to ensure appropriate data retention schedule and end-of-life disposal.
- Lead integration of corporate technical data stores to cloud solutions, for asset, decommissioning, and legacy data
- Support managed service subsurface and wells teams with:
- Data availability and accessibility
- Technical computing environments and data integration
- Act as a bridge between technical disciplines and data governance requirements
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Stakeholder Management & Coordination
- Responsible for internal understanding of I&S across the wells, decommissioning, legal, and IS/IM teams
- Raise awareness and understanding of End-of-Life Data Management across the organisation
- Act as the central point of contact for information and samples coordination
- Act as point for contact for UKCS Licensing activities and events
- Act as main focal point for UK NDR and PEARS system admin, plus any other systems on the UK Energy Portal as necessary.
- Act as main user and focal point for GIS and mapping across the organisation
ABOUT YOU
To be successful in this role, we are looking for:
- Excellent Subsurface, decommissioning, and Wells Data Management skills
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills internally and externally with NSTA regulator, stakeholders, and peer groups.
- Strong understanding of Energy Act regulations and guidelines relating to all aspects of Information and Samples.
- Established data management capabilities across multiple Subsurface and Wells data formats, NDR submission formats, technical software packages, and application projects.
- Proven organizational skills and project management abilities, and high level of attention to detail.
- Extensive experience with Energy Operators.
- Preferred Degree qualified in either an Earth Sciences or a Computing Science subject.
In addition to technical knowledge and credibility, we are looking for someone who lives our values - Agility, Collaboration, Courage, Care, and Delivery. A person who embraces and supports change, while ensuring the safe and efficient operation of a mature asset.
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by hitting the 'Apply' button. We are a truly pioneering energy transition company with a portfolio and ambitions that span the breadth of the energy transition. We’re continuing to break new ground, collaborating and thinking differently. We’re proud of our heritage. With more than 30 years of production, we’re maximizing the potential of our existing assets and substantial gas reserves in the UK and Netherlands. Above all, we live by our commitment to safety in everything we do. Our portfolio is predominantly gas (96%), providing vital, primary energy to fuel our homes and businesses in the UK and Europe. Our strategy is focused on:
- Safely delivering production from our existing assets;
- Meeting and de-risking our decommissioning obligations, and
- Exploring strategic energy transition opportunities from our existing assets.
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