Sarawak, Malaysia

Job Family Group:

Geosciences

Worker Type:

Regular

Posting Start Date:

February 15, 2026

Business Unit:

Experience Level:

Experienced Professionals

Job Description:

What's the role

The Principal Exploration Geoscientist Consultant - Malaysia serves as the foremost geoscience thought leader for Shell Malaysia Exploration. This role defines and steers the subsurface strategy across the Malaysia exploration portfolio, ensuring Shell continues to identify, mature, and deliver value‑accretive opportunities that underpin the near‑mid and long‑term growth of Shell's Malaysia Upstream business.

Beyond deep technical expertise, the position demands strategic vision, critical thinking, an enterprise-wide mindset, and leadership that strengthens Shell's competitive positioning within Malaysia's dynamic regulatory and partnership environment. This role is essential in safeguarding Shell's advantage in mature basins while driving the opening of new growth frontiers across the Sabah and Sarawak oil and gas heartlands.

What you'll be doing

In this role, you will provide senior technical leadership and challenge to ensure high‑quality subsurface understanding and decision‑making. You will guide play and prospect maturation, shape technical framing for Malaysia bid rounds and growth opportunities and deliver TA2 Assurance for well maturation. A core focus of the role is strengthening decision quality and driving seamless subsurface integration across teams.

You will lead natural teams, uphold Shell's technical excellence standards, and enhance the company's external engagement with regulators, partners, and industry forums. Success requires a balance of deep technical credibility and strong strategic vision-enabling you to unlock new ideas, reframe opportunities, and maximize portfolio value. While the role does not include formal line management, you will provide influential technical leadership across multidisciplinary, cross‑functional teams

• Ability to synthesize complex subsurface, commercial, and strategic drivers into clear, actionable insights that shape venture direction.
• Strong integrative skills across subsurface domains, with the ability to work effectively in ambiguity and convert uncertainty into practical pathways forward.
• Willingness to constructively challenge assumptions and promote diverse perspectives to uncover new value opportunities.
• Proven capability to link technical evaluations to business value, commercial strategy, and portfolio priorities.
• Effective stakeholder management and influencing skills across internal and external partners, including PETRONAS and JV partners.
• Diplomatic and credible engagement in complex stakeholder environments.
• Sound judgment in assessing subsurface risks, uncertainty ranges, and value implications throughout the exploration lifecycle.
• Ability to communicate complex technical and strategic narratives simply, clearly, and persuasively to varied audiences.
• Deep experience in play and prospect maturation, seismic and well planning, and risk/volume integration.
• Ownership of technical assurance, ensuring quality and integrity of team technical deliverables.
• Strong leadership in integrating geoscience, engineering, and commercial perspectives to deliver holistic solutions.
• Adaptability and the ability to lead teams through change in dynamic environments.
• Commitment to ethical standards, responsible resource development, and sustainability principles.
• High performance expectations with a commitment to growth mindset, innovation, and continuous learning.

What you bring

• Advanced degree (MSc or PhD) in Geoscience, with 15+ years of relevant exploration experience and a strong geological grounding. Experience in Malaysia or Southeast Asia is an advantage.
• Proven track record in opportunity generation, maturation, and framing subsurface uncertainty.
• Demonstrated leadership in natural teams, with strong mentoring and technical coaching capabilities.
• Ability to effectively influence partners and external stakeholders.
• Strong commitment to HSSE, with a solid understanding of subsurface process safety.
• Ability and willingness to travel up to 25%.

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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. You'll have the opportunity to develop the skills you need to grow in an environment where we value honesty, integrity, and respect for one another. You'll 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 value-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 among the best in the world.
• Take advantage of paid parental leave, including for non-birthing parents.
• Join an organization 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 world's most diverse and inclusive companies. You can get to know more about how we're working towards that goal, click here

Shell in Malaysia

Shell has been a partner in fueling Malaysia's progress for over 130 years. Our journey with the nation is intertwined - in as much as Shell has played a role in growing the country's energy sector, Malaysia has also played a significant role in the company's progress.

Our business has diversified from a modest kerosene venture to a group of companies engaged in every aspect of the modern oil and gas business.

Today, Shell maintains a strong multi-faceted presence in the country through our longer-term investments, innovation-sharing, and impact on local communities.

We helped pioneer Malaysia's oil and gas industry and fueled its growth. We discovered Malaysia's first oil onshore, then took the industry offshore, and most recently into the technically challenging depths of Deepwater.

Shell's strong retail network fuels the journeys of millions of Malaysian motorists every day. In fact, Shell is even able to offer one of the most differentiated fuel and lubricant products, some of which were pioneered right here in the country.

We fuelled the ambitions of Malaysians: whether the generations of retail business partners; thousands of Shell scholars over the years; young entrepreneurs from our Livewire programme; or Shell staff and alumni who are Malaysian luminaries today.

Shell continues to be one of the top employers in Malaysia with thousands employed in our upstream, midstream and downstream businesses, as well as in our service and support functions.

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