There is no equivalent project of such an industrial drilling magnitude in a remote and sensitive area within the Company today. The Tilenga oilfields are partly situated in a protected National Park, partly beneath the river Nile wetlands area, and within densely populated area in a rural and remote part of Uganda. Activities exposed to the risk of major incidents with severe potential consequences due to local environment and important presence of NGO’s. Factory Drilling with a well delivered every 4 days using 3 drilling rigs simultaneously will necessitate standardization of equipment and procedures, strict enforcement of Drilling & Well instructions, safe and efficient logistic management on site. 80 WO operation with 2 WO rigs. The project is focused on delivering the lowest possible cost, which requires challenging TotalEnergies design concepts as well as substantially challenging the TotalEnergies referential.  Heavy and waxy oils will be produced from 29 well pads, (with 9 located in a national park) and treated in a Production Center of 200,000bopd oil capacity and 650,000 bwpd of water treatment capacity. Reservoir pressure maintenance is ensured by water injection, test of polymer water injection will be implemented. The project also includes an extended interconnecting network with temperature preservation. LPG extraction, storage and tankersloading facilities are part of the CPF facilities. 90 km of Feeder line with 6 block valve station facilities and Kabaler Shared Facilities are under Operational Responsibility of Field Site Manager. Multicultural environment. Highly Populated at the south of the field. Ugandan rules and regulations, administrative requirements and technical authorizations as well as international codes for onshore plant will apply.  Due to staggered development potentially on CPF, and definitely on well pads and considering sensitive operation of Electric Submersible Pumps for Production wells, it is expected that SIMOPS (Operations vs Construction, Operations versus Drilling - Workover) will occur on CPF , and regularly on Well pads

Main Duties and Responsibilities

• Define detailed operations scope of Smart room.
• Develop Smart Room operating philosophy.
• Prepare JD, define roles and recruit smart room engineers.
• Define daily task and interaction protocols with site and Kampala team
• Lease with Startup Manager for the Start-Up execution PLAN, activities sequence, systems HO and operation
• Lead smart room daily and advise engineers on the activities.
• Ensure that sort term planning of site activities is done to minimize impact on delivered production and minimizing facilities downtime.
• Ensure that any deviation from normal operated parameters are timely reported and highlighted to site team and Office support team.
• Anticipate Site Technical issues and provide necessary support. Provide site production operation and site maintenance team real time support via digital tool.
• Analyze and resolve production/process issues utilizing the appropriate techniques, liaising with Production & Site Support, Maintenance and Inspection, Well Performance, Reservoir, Project Departments and Group/external specialists where necessary.
• Lead investigation of incidents / production SF regarding daily operation parameters.
• Lead Root Cause Analysis RCA) for all major events.
• Promote the use of developed and implemented digital tools, propose optimizations and advise on the development of new digital tools.
• Track Key Performance Indicators and associated monitoring tools.
• Propose optimization to reduce GHG emissions
• Develop production dashboard in collaboration with other departments heads
• Propose actions to reduce / optimize chemical injections.
• Ensure identification of hidden barrels to be produced at low cost.
• Contribute to the achievement of targeted OEF by ensuring that production/process upsets and losses are picked up, analyzed, investigated, mitigated and resolved utilizing the appropriate techniques.
• Post FO participate in the preparation of startup of newly constructed well pads.
• Participate to HAZOP, HAZID, ORAR and all necessary audits / reviews.
• Ensure interfaces management between various actors/stakeholders in the operations value chain.

Qualifications & Experience:

• Engineering degree or similar education level (Petroleum, Process, Chemical Engineering).
• Minimum 12 years’ of proven experience on the oil and gas producing site. Required experience as Method support engineer big affiliate, Production Superintendent in operating affiliate is a prerequisite for the position.
• Understanding of maintenance processes, Well performance, site integrity, and operational experience, well performance, integrity, and operational experience.
• Experienced in pervious similar positions, on a large onshore or offshore field, would be an advantage.
• Must be very analytical with the ability to propose innovative and workable alternatives or solutions
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills; adept at interaction with a variety of contacts, including peers within a multi-disciplinary team, management, vendors and industry partners.
• Must be very analytical with ability to propose innovative and workable alternatives or solutions.
• Strong communication, negotiation, and interface management skills to work efficiently in transverse mode.