Senior Planning and Development Engineer

Profil du candidat

Qualifications & Experience:

·Masterâs in engineering with multi-disciplinary experience in Oil & Gas industry (holding an MBA or a Corporate Finance diploma would be a plus).

·Minimum 10 years in the upstream sector, including several years in technical positions related to at least 2 different technical domains (such as field operations, engineering, project, geoscience, drilling, or HSE) and previous responsibilities with head offices.

Activités

Main Duties and Responsibilities:

Team

·Share technical knowledge and experience feedback to increase team membersâ technical autonomy.

·Share key finance / economics knowledge to increase membersâ finance awareness related to Energy investment.

·Coach and mentor up to 2 junior positions.

·Act as a transverse team leader for development study and patrimonial process coordination.

Corporate Planning

·Lead the Long-Term Plan of the subsidiary through its entire process: preparation with the Companyâs entities (technical and cost inputs), consolidation with the economist, and reporting/presentation to HQ.

·Lead the preparation of the annual Work Program & Budget, and more specifically be the interface with the technical teams for the preparation, consolidation, and reporting/presentation.

·Lead the consolidation of the Integrated Operations Planning within the Company and ensure the process, governance and tools are in place to facilitate management meetings and definition of action plans.

·Participate in the annual reserves exercise (Prime) by providing costs and schedule assumptions.

Development

·Coordinate petroleum architecture / development studies (screening, concept, pre-project) performed within the subsidiary or by HQ.

·Be responsible for the preparation and the update of Field Development Plans.

·Support the economics evaluation of prospects (exploration or upsides within Production Licenses).

·Prepare decision support package and participate in quality reviews and any other Committees to sanction new developments.

·Define the Master Development Plan beyond Tilenga Water Floor FID case (sequence of infills, polymer flood EOR, and tie-back developments) to increase plateau duration.

·Lead the follow-up of the power requirements of the integrated upstream / midstream assets, and associated technical interfaces.

·Be the subsidiary focal point for Carbon Footprint Reduction and define the roadmap to reduce GHG emissions.

·Support commercial agreements negotiations (LPG, Common Development Allocation Agreement, PPA & Electricity Tariff.

Joint Venture

·Support Joint Ventures and Finance teams in the annual Work Program & Budget process with Partners and Authorities.

·Supervise the technical follow-up of Operated-By-Other Asset, through technical reviews and budget monitoring.

Business Intelligence

·Deliver business insights through market analyses to support commercial activities.

·Use analytics to develop benchmarks and support subsidiaryâs performance improvements.

Contexte et environnement

The job holderâs activities are focused on the Lake Albert Development projects (operated and non-operated assets). Lake Albert Development projects includes operated and non-operated assets. The job holder plays a key role in corporate planning and development studies, as well as technical interface between project teams, Partners and Regulator.Lake Albert projects being one of the projects sanctioned by TTE in 2021- High scrutiny of NGOs / CSOs with regards to social and environment impacts- Challenging project schedule and budget- Complex relationship with Partners and Regulator- Nascent oil & gas industry in Uganda- Organization ramp-up