Production Excellence Advisor
Qatar
Permanent

Petroplan are currently supporting the state owned operating company in Qatar for a degree qualified Production Excellence Advisor. This person should hold 15 years' experience within Production Excellence for Operations & Maintenance projects (offshore/onshore).

Primary Purpose of the Job

• Advise and Support on Production Excellence (PE) upstream and downstream processing strategies, objectives, and implementation plans to move Operations (On/Off-shore Oil and Gas production, Gas processing, Refinery) to a world-class performance level in terms of safety, reliability, production efficiency and unit costs.
• Implement the VO Operations Excellence Transformation in close collaboration with other directorates (focusing on People, Processes and Technology through a multi-year transformation) and coach the OE PE transformation of the VO operation, especially the Managers / Asst. Managers to drive PE competencies, change, culture and performance in VO and obtain sustainable world-class performance measured and confirmed by external benchmarks.

Experience & Skills

• Minimum of 15 years' experience, of which at least 5 years in leadership positions in Operations, Maintenance and/or Operation Excellence/Readiness manager positions covering upstream production and downstream processing, preferably in an International Oil Corporation (IOC).
• Competence with setting up, leading, managing and delivering Production Excellence delivery programmes i.e. Operational Excellence program.
• Competence with implementing PE methodologies in complex international multi-cultural environment.
• Experience with building PE organisational capability in different cultures (i.e. Europe, Far and Middle East, Africa and/or Latin America) including Nationalisation programmes, setting up a performance culture and aligning internal/external functional and service providers.
• Experience with Commercial agreements, supply chain management and contracting.

Education
University degree (at least BSc) in relevant engineering discipline, with additional training and working in upstream production excellence WRFM and/or downstream unit processing execution roles, project and/or programmes

About Petroplan

Petroplan is the trusted, specialist global Talent Solutions partner of choice for employers and professionals in the Energy sector. Since 1976, Petroplan has been here to help people like you make the most of the opportunities available and find the best fit for you as an individual.

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