MANAGERIAL RESPONSIBILITIES

Drive seamless communication between the senior leadership and the team members to ensure smooth flow of information and timely decision making
Manage and execute and manages the delivery of technical excellence within Utilities Technology, and liaises with relevant area managers to develop and strengthen assurance processes to ensure uninterrupted plant operation
Conduct regular check ins with team members for alignment on expectations, assessing performance against set goals, and provide feedback for continuous improvement
Guide and support team members on all operational and functional matters and resolve any doubts/concerns/grievances they have
Devote time to train team members on new ways of working, developing new competencies, and upskilling to drive performance and productivity

FUNCTIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES

Utilities Technology – Strategic Planning:

Assist in development and implementation of the long-term strategic plan for the utility technology activities in the Asset Reference Plan, and ensure alignment with production, maintenance, and projects for delivery
Advise on technological services to meet Oman LNG business principles and objectives, including safeguarding performance, monitoring, testing and process optimizations by leveraging technical expertise in the field
Ensure Utilities Technology performance meets departmental and corporate objectives by performing test runs to determine operating boundaries and changes in feed gas quality

Utilities Technology Operations:

Lead execution of detailed definition and design work for required plant changes/ improvements through the Management of Change (MOC) process
Propose, lead, and execute development studies and projects related to plant performance, process safety and plant integrity improvements
Apply barrier thinking to risk-based assessments to ensure plant safety and integrity (incident investigations, Management of Change, Besafe closure)
Lead technical support to Operations and Engineering as required, e. g. in troubleshooting and problem analysis
Lead and/or participate in utilities technological HSE services in the form of Process Safety Assessment (PSA), HAZOPs, Bow-ties and LOPA analysis
Ensure logging, tracking, and closeout of any actions generated from the reviews
Perform test runs, develop monitoring tools and procedures, to determine the operating boundaries to assist in achieving higher reliability and availability of equipment using process engineering expertise and technical know-how
Promote technical integrity of process design to required technical standards (e. g. legal requirements DEPs and SIOP standards) and apply design strategy aiming for minimum life cycle cost in the defined scope area
Interact with laboratory to ensure methods, limits and sample schedule provide the correct feedback for supporting production, engineering, and various process test-runs

Quality Assurance:

Execute discipline engineering assurance functions and assist in providing in-depth specialist technical know-how to support other departments to sustain continuous and uninterrupted plant operation, leading to achievement of overall corporate objectives
Ensure technical quality of all activities within utilities technology
Develop and maintain assurance functions within procedures, organisational structure, other business units, staff, and the corporate functions to ensure risk profile in relevant business scope is identified, monitored, and controlled
Ensure compliance of the relevant discipline to the HSSE and regulatory framework, and provide leadership support to achieve goal zero for OLNG

Utilities Technology – Continuous improvement:

Identify and implement opportunities to enhance efficiency of the production units to maximize the LNG production capability
Develop tools & keep abreast of new technologies and drive case for change that will improve train/complex reliability, efficiency, production, and environmental performance
Ensure state-of-the-art methods and tools are available for the Utilities Technology section by liaising with external consultants and vendors

Stakeholder Management:

Build and nurture a close working relationship with technical advisor through networking and execution of studies and projects
Build and optimize effective liaison with process technology, environmental technology, information technology, operations, and engineering departments
Interact with laboratory to ensure methods, limits and sample schedule provide the correct feedback for supporting production, engineering and various process test-runs
Act as the focal point for external vendors and Shell global solutions to execute projects on the site with responsibilities ranging from Terms of Reference (ToR) preparation to cost/schedule control

Miscellaneous Tasks:

Prepare reports on plant reliability, utility, availability, plant thermal efficiency and production to the shareholders in conjunction with reliability team
Act as shutdown coordinator from technology department
Provide advanced utilities technology familiarization and training for other OLNG staff

University Graduate in relevant streams like Chemical, Process engineering or Physics
TA 3 for UTL engineering

Experience

8 years of experience in hydrocarbon industry, including design/operations support
5 years in LNG technical engineering field

Lead, Technologist Engineer-Utilities