Offshore Shutdown Production Operations Focal Point

About the Role

Provide dedicated operations support for shutdown preparation and execution, ensuring compliance with procedures and safety standards. Lead isolation strategies, ramp-down and handover processes, leak testing, and coordination across teams to deliver an efficient, incident-free shutdown.

Responsibilities

• Manage the development of the Drain, Flush and Purge Strategy.
• Working with the Process EA3, manage the development of the boundary isolation philosophy.
• Coordinate isolation and de-isolations for all shutdown scopes.
• Coordinate the author of decommissioning and recommissioning NROs.
• Lead the production ramp down philosophy as per agreed Business Plan.
• Lead the phased system handover as per agreed Shutdown Plan.
• Lead back end PSSR activities and systems handover for leak test.
• Close liaison with Flange Manager throughout the shutdown process.
• Develop and ownership of the leak testing strategy, including contingency planning.
• Manage the develop the production team rota for cover and increased resource during key shutdown dates.
• Close liaison with Process Engineer supporting the asset.
• Provide regular shutdown progress updates and priorities across all shifts.
• Lead Operations status updates at weekly shutdown meetings.
• Close liaison with Production Team Lead and Production Supervisors.
• Understand and ensure compliance with appropriate technical and Operational standards and specifications are met and adhered to.
• Close liaison with Support Engineers and TAs to ensure all Production Related Technical Queries have been closed out and approved.
• Provide Production support to Shutdown Delivery Lead when assessing break in activities.
• Provide operations input to CeSAR Scope Change process.
• Develop process ICCs for shutdown intrusive activities up to the ready to be Verified status, including Process Isolation Plans, Isolation Selection Tool etc, mapping all BoCs to appropriate re-instatement testing i.e. to a test pack, TQ deviation or reverse integrity joint.
• Work with maintenance supervisor to ensure an RV delivery strategy is in place and supported by the production team during execution.
• Act as PSSR operations focal point during execution phase.
• Coordinate NRO HAZOPs.
• Act as operations focal point for DRB meetings and provide input to steering committee meetings as required.

Qualifications

• Degree or equivalent industry experience in similar role.

Required Skills

• Significant industry experience in a similar role
• Significant production and process experience
• Demonstrable experience dealing with the safe and efficient execution of work during shutdowns
• Demonstrable experience of conducting thorough risk assessment, with a clear understanding of ALARP, acceptable risk and identification of suitable mitigating control
• Experience and thorough understanding of how plant is safely re-instated using completions systems and PSSRs (Plant Re-instatement)
• Examples of communicating with personnel from different disciplines and areas of the business

Preferred Non-Technical Skills

• Builds and leads a high-performing team accountable for team performance and delivery as well as their wellbeing and development.
• Leads and instils technical and professional excellence, ensuring capabilities remain in line with industry/discipline/function development and best practice.
• Communicates and influences with impact, clarity, and conviction, leading effective change and providing regular and appropriate team, business and organisation updates.
• Consults and listens, taking on ideas, building rapport and enabling effective two-way communication.
• Leads the development and management of their workforce and resourcing plan effectively, within the strategic planning cycle, over a medium/long-term time horizon, ensuring employee wellbeing (holidays, working time, etc.) is given due consideration alongside business and cost requirements.
• Is familiar with, communicates, supports, applies, and adheres to people policies and procedures.
• Emphasises the importance of environmental, social and governance criteria.
• Proactively works towards making the organisation socially responsible in all aspects of its business.
• Leads the performance management process across their team; is clear on the strategic objectives of the organisation and communicates/clarifies the role their team plays in their delivery; ensures every employee has clear goals and objectives and are provided with continuous feedback in a timely, honest, and constructive manner.
• Role models and coaches their managers and teams in living the Values, demonstration of high standards of behaviour, performance management and employee development.
• Sponsors skills, competency, and career development, in line with the organisation's policy and process.
• Encourages development through lateral moves as well as challenging assignments and progression, fostering breadth and depth of skill and competency development.