Context & Environment

Green Field Project, Tilenga is a remote location in UGANDA near Albert lake with particular sensitive environmental conditions. Huge onshore challenging project; heavy and waxy oils produced from 31 drilling pads, (with some of them located in a national park) and treated in a Production Center of 200,000bopd oil capacity and 650,000 bld of water treatment capacity. Reservoir pressure maintenance is ensured either by water injection or by polymer water injection depending on the reservoirs characteristics. The project also includes an extended interconnecting network with temperature preservation. Multicultural environment: Contractors are anticipated to be located in various parts of the world. Ugandan rules and regulations, administrative requirements and technical authorizations as well as International codes for onshore plant will apply.

Activities

Main Duties and Responsibilities:

• Provide specialist technical/engineering advice and guidance to site personnel on the operation and maintenance of plant/equipment ensuring highest safety standards, a timely response to queries with minimal disruption to operations
• Proactively monitor, review and analyze plant and equipment performance using Digital Tools and provide feedback to Line Management, identifying opportunities to maximize production and performance and share best practice
• Contribute to the ongoing monitoring of strategies for the maintenance and operation of plant/equipment to ensure that all plant and equipment meets verification and compliance requirements.
• Prepare scopes of work for vendor services and repairs, make recommendations on preferred contractors and co-ordinate vendors, materials and equipment for planned and unplanned activities, monitoring and controlling manpower usage.
• Conduct ad-hoc technical surveys at site and at vendor/repair locations, providing detailed technical reports identifying problems and solutions and ensuring optimum performance from contractors.
• Ensure all relevant operations and maintenance procedures and documentation are maintained in an accurate and current status and are available on request.
• Assist the department management and planning teams in implementing the scheduling of discipline maintenance activities, ensuring that site personnel have all resources (resources, materials, procedures) in order to timely execute the tasks.
• Ensure that all activities are carried out in a safe and effective manner and that all interventions are controlled by authorized persons, satisfy statutory and Company standards and that no hazardous incidents or events occur.
• Lead investigations into equipment failures and outages liaising with HQ specialist and vendors as required. Document finding along with corrective actions.
• Prepare reports relating to equipment performance and compliance to meet local authority and HQ requirements.
• Act as SECE Guardian for identified Performance Standards ensuing technical compliance and assurance of the Performance Standards within.
• Ensure local legislation is complied with in the execution of maintenance activities
• Prepare scopes of work and economic justification for modifications ensuring they are correctly engineered, documented and reported, and that all maintenance activities/modifications are implemented in accordance with statutory/Company standards and correctly closed-out.
• Provide technical support to the recruitment and training of future maintenance technicians and engineers. Provide guidance and support to less experienced engineers within discipline teams.
• Responsible for managing specific budget lines, monitoring costs and ensuring that expenditures are within budget.
• Develop positive and constructive relationships with contractors and suppliers. Identify opportunities to improve contractor/supplier performance, reduce costs and improve the quality of services/products supplied.
• Act as Contract Representative on specific project/work scopes and contracts, taking a lead role in the involvement/co-ordination of, and interface between, office and site teams/contractors ensuring effective communication and understanding between appropriate parties

Candidate Profile

Qualifications & Experience:

• Engineering degree or equivalent Engineering degree
• Minimum 15 years’ experience as mechanical/rotating engineer in petroleum & gas industry in operations and/or projects, leading operational and maintenance strategies for equipment on site, monitoring equipment performance, diagnosing equipment failures, implementation and management of strategic contracts, leading discipline teams and acting as the technical expert in an operational environment for the oil and gas exploration-production industry, both offshore and onshore.

Additional Information

TotalEnergies values diversity, promotes individual growth and offers equal opportunity careers.

• Provide specialist technical/engineering advice and guidance to site personnel on the operation and maintenance of plant/equipment ensuring highest safety standards, a timely response to queries with minimal disruption to operations
• Proactively monitor, review and analyze plant and equipment performance using Digital Tools and provide feedback to Line Management, identifying opportunities to maximize production and performance and share best practice
• Contribute to the ongoing monitoring of strategies for the maintenance and operation of plant/equipment to ensure that all plant and equipment meets verification and compliance requirements.
• Prepare scopes of work for vendor services and repairs, make recommendations on preferred contractors and co-ordinate vendors, materials and equipment for planned and unplanned activities, monitoring and controlling manpower usage.
• Conduct ad-hoc technical surveys at site and at vendor/repair locations, providing detailed technical reports identifying problems and solutions and ensuring optimum performance from contractors.
• Ensure all relevant operations and maintenance procedures and documentation are maintained in an accurate and current status and are available on request.
• Assist the department management and planning teams in implementing the scheduling of discipline maintenance activities, ensuring that site personnel have all resources (resources, materials, procedures) in order to timely execute the tasks.
• Ensure that all activities are carried out in a safe and effective manner and that all interventions are controlled by authorized persons, satisfy statutory and Company standards and that no hazardous incidents or events occur.
• Lead investigations into equipment failures and outages liaising with HQ specialist and vendors as required. Document finding along with corrective actions.
• Prepare reports relating to equipment performance and compliance to meet local authority and HQ requirements.
• Act as SECE Guardian for identified Performance Standards ensuing technical compliance and assurance of the Performance Standards within.
• Ensure local legislation is complied with in the execution of maintenance activities
• Prepare scopes of work and economic justification for modifications ensuring they are correctly engineered, documented and reported, and that all maintenance activities/modifications are implemented in accordance with statutory/Company standards and correctly closed-out.
• Provide technical support to the recruitment and training of future maintenance technicians and engineers. Provide guidance and support to less experienced engineers within discipline teams.
• Responsible for managing specific budget lines, monitoring costs and ensuring that expenditures are within budget.
• Develop positive and constructive relationships with contractors and suppliers. Identify opportunities to improve contractor/supplier performance, reduce costs and improve the quality of services/products supplied.
• Act as Contract Representative on specific project/work scopes and contracts, taking a lead role in the involvement/co-ordination of, and interface between, office and site teams/contractors ensuring effective communication and understanding between appropriate parties

• Specialist technical/engineering advice and guidance
• Plant and equipment performance monitoring and analysis
• Maintenance and operation strategy development
• Scope of work preparation for vendor services and repairs
• Vendor and contractor coordination
• Technical survey and reporting
• Operations and maintenance procedure management
• Maintenance scheduling assistance
• Safety and compliance assurance
• Equipment failure investigation
• Performance and compliance reporting
• Technical compliance and assurance of Performance Standards
• Local legislation compliance
• Modification scope of work and economic justification preparation
• Technical support for recruitment and training
• Guidance and support to less experienced engineers
• Budget management
• Contract management and representation
• Relationship management with contractors and suppliers

• Engineering degree or equivalent Engineering degree
• Minimum 15 years’ experience as mechanical/rotating engineer in petroleum & gas industry in operations and/or projects
• Experience leading operational and maintenance strategies for equipment on site
• Experience monitoring equipment performance
• Experience diagnosing equipment failures
• Experience in implementation and management of strategic contracts
• Experience leading discipline teams
• Experience acting as the technical expert in an operational environment for the oil and gas exploration-production industry, both offshore and onshore.