Principal (Partner), Oil & Gas
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Job overview
The Principal will lead business growth and client delivery within dss+’s Oil & Gas team. The role focuses on building C-suite relationships, growing strategic accounts, shaping and closing consulting engagements, and leading complex transformation programs. The work spans upstream, midstream, and downstream Oil & Gas, with an emphasis on safety, operational performance, productivity, reliability, and profitability.
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Job description
Location: United States, location flexible
Travel: 80% About dss+
At dss+, you don’t just deliver projects. You help save lives, improve performance, and build a more sustainable future. We are a purpose-led global consultancy helping organizations solve complex challenges across Operational Risk, Operational Excellence, and Sustainability. With roots in DuPont’s industrial operations, we combine deep industry expertise with practical implementation to deliver measurable, lasting results.
Why This Role
As a Principal within our Oil & Gas team, you will play a senior leadership role in growing our business and delivering transformational results for clients. You will build trusted C-suite relationships, grow strategic accounts, shape and close major consulting engagements, and lead complex transformation programs from the boardroom to the plant floor. Our work spans upstream, midstream, and downstream Oil & Gas, helping clients improve safety, operational performance, productivity, reliability, and profitability.
What You’ll Experience at dss+
Meaningful Impact
Help leading Oil & Gas organizations improve safety, performance, resilience, and sustainability.
Trusted Expertise
Work alongside industry experts and senior client leaders to solve complex operational challenges.
Growth & Leadership
Take on significant client and commercial responsibility while developing teams and helping shape the growth of dss+.
A Collaborative Culture
Join a purpose-led, inclusive organization where different perspectives, expertise, and ideas are valued.
Your Impact
Grow the Business
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Own an annual sales target and build the pipeline to deliver against it.
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Develop trusted relationships with CEOs, COOs, and senior Operations and EHS leaders.
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Shape, price, and close large consulting engagements.
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Turn initial engagements into broader, multi-year client relationships.
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Grow strategic accounts by bringing the full breadth of dss+ capabilities to clients.
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Represent dss+ through industry networks, conferences, and thought leadership.
Job requirements
What You Bring
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15+ years of experience in management consulting and/or senior Oil & Gas leadership.
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Partner, Director, or equivalent consulting experience and/or significant P&L or Oil & Gas operational leadership experience.
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Proven success personally selling and leading consulting engagements, with annual sales targets.
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An established C-suite and senior operations network within upstream, midstream, and/or downstream Oil & Gas.
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Experience leading large-scale safety, operational excellence, and performance transformations with measurable results.
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Turnaround, restructuring, and/or M&A integration experience.
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Strong knowledge of Operational Excellence, Lean/Six Sigma, safety management systems, and large-scale change.
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Strong executive presence with credibility in both the boardroom and on the plant floor.
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Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Science, or a related field; MBA strongly preferred.
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Willingness to travel 80%+ .
A Bit More About Us
dss+ is a global operations management consulting firm helping organizations improve safety, operational performance, and sustainability.
We work from the boardroom to the plant floor, combining deep industry expertise with practical implementation to deliver lasting results.
We are committed to creating an inclusive workplace where everyone is respected, valued, and able to contribute and grow.
How this job compares
Set against the 3,205 open Management Consulting jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 4, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- Texas median$124–261K/yr257 salary ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 273 open Management Consulting jobs in Texas and 3,205 across the US. 2% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 15 years of experience — more than three in four Management Consulting postings that state a minimum ask for (median 6 years, across 3,137 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a bachelor's degree; 1,766 of the 3,205 open Management Consulting jobs (55%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 4, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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