Tailored to your talents.
Making the move to ConocoPhillips is one that will automatically fuel enthusiasm. Allow us to explain.
If you’re in a position where you want to enhance your abilities and take them to the next level, you’ll have virtually limitless ways to do so. But say you wish to switch gears altogether and head in a direction that will uncover talents untapped. You can do that too. Whether you’re into technology, are an engineering guru, a marketing wiz, sales expert or finance specialist, the paths are all here for you to explore.
Below are brief descriptions of several of those paths.
Accounting, Finance, Auditing and Tax
Communications and Public Affairs
Engineering
Geosciences
Health, Safety, Environment and Regulatory Affairs
Human Resources
Information Management and Information Technology
Sales and Marketing
Supply and Trading
Transportation
Accounting, Finance, Auditing and Tax
Finance careers at ConocoPhillips involve a critical role in helping the company reach its goal to develop future generations of global business leaders. Exposure may include providing finance, accounting, business analysis, and decision support to operations and management. Initial duties could include revenue, cost or investment accounting, government reporting, working with other companies on crude, gas or product imbalances and exchanges, economic evaluations, cash and earnings budgeting or forecasting, management reporting, accounting consolidations and analysis, federal and state tax filing and compliance, credit administration, cash management and banking, and internal audit. ConocoPhillips will provide you with an understanding of the financial systems that support our businesses and a growing vision of your personal contributions.
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Communications and Public Affairs
Communications & Public Affairs is a distinct group of professional communicators and collaborators who manage a diverse set of communications, public affairs and community relations needs. This group provides all internal and external communication messaging and provide strategic services for writing support, document approvals, and collateral material development. The mixture of print and electronic communication allows us to keep employees and the public updated on current events throughout the company. We also provide creative services that include assignments in graphic design, audio visual support and development, and preservation. It is also our mission to be active in our communities by participating in volunteer events and contributing to programs which help ConocoPhillips serve as a quality corporate citizen.
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Engineering
An engineering career in the company's Exploration and Production organization provides an exciting way to be on the edge of new developments at ConocoPhillips. Using state-of-the-art technology, you will explore for and produce crude oil, natural gas, and natural gas liquids (NGL) on a worldwide basis. Your work may include preparing remedial work-overs, stimulation evaluations, and procedures, providing engineering support during field operations, production optimization, reservoir performance evaluations, facilities optimization, and upgrades, identifying new drilling prospects, preparing drilling well plans, and providing engineering support during drilling operations.
Engineering positions supporting the company's Refining and Marketing organization also offer unique challenges. As a company with strong regional brands in the U.S., Europe and Asia, we strive to fulfill the potential of our employees with extraordinary leadership. Depending on your assignment, your focus may range from major capital project support to plant optimization. Capital project support includes working on initial project development studies; developing process, civil, electrical/instrumentation, or mechanical engineering designs; assisting with project management activities; interfacing with vendors, contractors and technical experts to ensure quality designs; and identification of new ideas and innovative concepts for continuous improvement of designs and design practices. In addition, technology divisions complete work on fuel evaluation and quality assurance.
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Geosciences
Geoscientists at ConocoPhillips use state-of-the-art technology to discover oil and gas fields worldwide. As opportunities grow, we may send our explorationists to some of the globe's most remote frontiers. Our earth scientists pursue their work with the aid of the most sophisticated electronic equipment and the latest technology applications. We employ specialists in several disciplines, such as structural geology, sequence stratigraphy, basin analysis, petrophysics, seismic acquisition, and processing and seismic processing development. New hires receive entry-level assignments, formal training and progressive responsibilities so they can rapidly develop their core skills. New employees begin their assignments with extensive workshops and on-the-job training augmented by widely varied field experiences.
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Health, Safety, Environment and Regulatory Affairs
ConocoPhillips is committed to protecting the health and safety of everybody who plays a part in our operations, lives in the communities in which we operate, or uses our products. Our Health, Safety, and Environment (HSE) division strives to systematically raise the capabilities of our employees and work with the businesses we support to ensure these goals are continually met. We foresee an ongoing need for HSE employees with the desire and ability to take on challenging and satisfying assignments in every location where we do business. Typical career progression in HSE may begin with a role aligned with the individual’s educational training and work experience where there is a ConocoPhillips business need for the position to exist. As employees grow and gain required experiences, their career paths may lead to advanced technical or non-supervisory roles or pursue supervisory responsibilities.
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Human Resources
At ConocoPhillips, it is easy to see that one of the most important assets we have are the people we employ. Our goal is to always deliver the right people with the right skills, at the right time, right place, and the right value. We encourage a results-driven work environment employees are empowered to fulfill their own potential. Using technology and strategic business models, we design opportunities for continued growth and learning. We also strive to enable each HR employee to thrive from a performance, career, and personal growth perspective and create an environment where all HR employees are recognized and appreciated for their contributions. While situations will vary by business need, employee preferences, and location, individuals will typically have about three job assignments during the first five years. Employee mobility can be very valuable in HR and supports employee development and functional staffing efforts and allows employees to experience different types of assignments with different business and functional needs.
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Information Management and Information Technology
Our Global Information Services (GIS) systems careers encourage employees to be real global partners in the businesses they support. We strive every day to be the benchmark for other institutions by leading innovative projects and expanding our horizons. Your career will be developed based on “key experiences” which further your development and learning as you prepare for a successful future. In each career stage, we will encourage you to develop important skills that will help you become a strong leader. GIS has an important role in all our global processes, integrating technology with our strategic vision to meet goals and objectives.
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Sales and Marketing
Sales and Marketing encompasses many careers in wholesale and retail outlets, brand management, pricing, contracts, and product integration. Our goal is to create functional profitability at low margins. We work hard to be a significant player in the markets we choose to serve, often succeeding at being the a top provider. The challenge for this part of ConocoPhillips is to push all products to the marketplace so that they can be sold.
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Supply and Trading
Commercial operations at ConocoPhillips strive to serve as a world-class organization that captures optimal commercial advantage for the Exploration and Production and Refining and Marketing organizations and creates additional value through our presence in the market. As a result, Commercial leadership relies on the people of this organization to realize this vision. Careers in supply and trading will encourage you to commit to a continuous development of your competencies by using the many tools and resources at your disposal. We view active learning as essential to everyone’s development, with the belief that it will provide job enrichment, improve an employee’s existing skills and enhance an employee’s ability to compete in the Commercial community.
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Transportation
Careers in the Transportation organization involve working with marine vessels, pipelines, and truck or rail units to deliver products safely and responsibly. The Marine business works to create value through providing marine operational, technical, and commercial expertise required for energy exploration, production, refining, and marketing in alignment with corporate strategy. Some careers in transportation my be under the ConocoPhillips Pipe Line Company, which delivers value by providing dependable pipeline and terminal services through excellence in operations and asset integrity. As the most economical transportation system, this group is important to the success of ConocoPhillips. Truck and Rail employees will work with delivery schedules, terminal contracts, and logistics to ensure a timely delivery of quality product.
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