Operations Coordinator (HSE & Site Operations): Uganda
Location: Rural Uganda (remote field site)
Contract: 12 months, rotational
Start date: ASAP
Reports to: Start-Up Manager and Field Manager
The opportunity
We are recruiting an experienced Operations Coordinator to represent a major international oil and gas operator at a large-scale onshore development. The site sits in an environmentally sensitive area, including protected national parkland and Nile wetlands, close to densely populated rural communities.
This is a rare chance to work on a project of exceptional scale and complexity, with a factory-style drilling programme delivering a well roughly every four days across three rigs. You will be the operator’s lead on site, accountable for safe, compliant and efficient operations across multiple contractors and entities.
Key responsibilities
HSE
Develop and secure endorsement of a bridging document covering all routine and non-routine activities across operators and contractors, ensuring compliance with company and site HSE management systems
Contribute to and approve the Emergency Response Plan, and ensure the site is ready to respond to any emergency, including training, weekly drills and resource availability
Drive delivery of site HSE objectives (LTIF, TRIR, environmental discharges including flaring, Tier 1 and Tier 2 events, observations, life-saving checks, joint safety tours)
Ensure implementation of an ISO 14001-compliant Environmental Management System, including waste management
Review and acknowledge risk assessments, approve SIMOPS dossiers and co-sign permits to work
Ensure all safety-critical barriers are operational and maintained, raising deviations where they are not
Declare and manage any downgraded situation, defining immediate mitigations and corrective actions
Lead investigations into recordable incidents, high-potential events and Tier 1 and 2 incidents, and ensure lessons learned are issued
Coordinate a single site HSE dossier and follow up internal and external audit actions
Promote HSE culture through daily high visibility on site, meetings and talks
Act as advisor and liaison officer during on-site emergency response
Operations
Represent the operator in the field and ensure smooth coordination across production, maintenance, inspection, construction, logistics, catering, security, community relations and contractors
Identify and manage co-activities and their associated risks
Contribute to activity planning, approve work programmes, arbitrate where needed and lead short-term look-ahead planning
Monitor execution of work programmes against plan and track production performance, efficiency and OPEX
Approve main procedures and instructions, and ensure accurate daily reporting
Ensure equipment failures are reported, investigated and followed through with action plans
Contribute to optimisation and troubleshooting, proposing changes to improve reliability and reduce costs
Contribute to shutdown and major campaign scoping, and to contractor performance evaluation
Enforce adherence to the field operations management system, including Management of Change
Maintain site welfare standards and apply reward and sanction policy
Help mitigate societal risks in the area with support from community and security teams
Support budget preparation and maintain on-site cost control and time-keeping
Accountabilities
Compliance of all site activities with international and Ugandan law, company rules and HSE management systems
Safeguarding personnel safety, environmental protection and property
Achieving production targets within HSE, budget and planning objectives
About you
Essential
Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in engineering (petroleum, industrial or mechanical) or industrial chemistry
At least 10 years’ broad practical experience in maintenance and production operations, onshore or offshore
Experience as a Site Manager, Production Superintendent or HSE Superintendent (small to medium site), and/or as Head of…