Lead Engineer Operations Support

Overview

Provide expert technical engineering leadership and operational support for OQEP’s offshore facility facilities, including piping systems in processing plants and production platforms, under the direction of the Manager Operation and Maintenance Support, ensuring safe, reliable, available and efficient operations across Upstream Surface Operations.

• Provide robust technical engineering expertise and innovative solutions for the execution and operation of offshore facility piping systems in processing plants and production platforms, ensuring teams apply common engineering principles and concepts.
• Lead and deliver operability, availability and reliability assessments on systems related to offshore facility, providing robust technical judgement on modification and innovation proposals in line with project requirements, engineering standards, safety and reliability.
• Handle a large scope of concurrent engineering activities and projects, prioritizing and delivering high‑quality technical outputs across multiple assets simultaneously.
• Analyze complex technical, operational and reliability issues on offshore facility and recommend solutions that significantly improve safety, availability and performance.
• Provide operational support for offshore facility piping systems in processing plants and production platforms at Upstream Surface Operations.
• Deliver assigned operational duties and tasks for the assets, including technical support, troubleshooting, backup and other services to operate applicable hardware, systems, software and application software.
• Modify and improve engineering processes, standards, operating procedures and technical documentation to enhance reliability, integrity and operational efficiency.
• Measure and assure progress towards the state of Operational Readiness to Operate (ORA), ensuring readiness for safe and efficient operations at the site.
• Act as the Operations interface to manage procurement and supply issues, ensuring timely availability of technical materials, spares and services.
• Act as the ORA interface to engage and coordinate with different stakeholders on readiness, technical and operational matters.
• Provide technical leadership, guidance and review to junior engineers, trainees and teams on engineering principles, standards and operational practices.
• Mentor and coach production engineers and staff to build capability and develop them into self‑sufficient, high‑performing engineers.
• Convince and influence internal stakeholders, projects and vendors to adopt sound engineering solutions, operability improvements and reliability‑centred practices.
• Support incident investigation, root cause analysis and corrective actions for offshore facility reliability and integrity issues.
• Support planning, budgeting, forecasting and reporting for operations support engineering activities and embed KPIs in day‑to‑day work.
• Perform other similar duties as assigned by the Manager Operation and Maintenance Support.

• Internal:
  Surface Operations, Operation and Maintenance Support, Well Delivery, Projects Delivery, Technical Services, HSSE, Contract and Procurement.
• External: EPC and engineering contractors, equipment and piping vendors, OEMs, technical service providers and specialist engineering consultants.

• Education:
  
  Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Chemical, Process, Petroleum or a related Engineering discipline. Relevant post‑degree qualification or professional engineering certification is preferred;
  Master’s degree is a plus.
• Language:
  Excellent written, read and spoken English (required). Arabic is a plus.
• Background and
  
  Experience:
  
  8+ years in Operations Support, Surface Operations, Process/Facilities Engineering or Production Engineering, preferably in oil & gas, energy or large industrial sector. Proven track record of providing technical engineering leadership and operational support for offshore facility.
• Technical Expertise:
  Offshore facility and piping systems (processing plants and production platforms), operability, availability and reliability engineering, operational readiness assurance (ORA), readiness‑to‑operate assessments,…