Overall Purpose of the Job
• Managing and optimizing plant operations to meet and/or exceed daily production targets.
• To guide the production team in trouble shooting and monitoring of plant performance.
• Ensure safety of personnel, environment and equipment.
Principal Accountabilities
• To manage the production operations at the wellhead locations and the process facilities through a dedicated team of production department and to ensure that SSGC contract production nominations are met.
• Managing and optimizing plant operations to meet and/or exceed daily production targets.
• To guide the production team in trouble shooting and monitoring of plant performance.
• To review daily/monthly and annual production statistics and key performance parameters of the plant operations/production prepared by the Shift/Process Engineers and share with the Management
• Foster the development of a risk and safety culture amongst the team. Effective control of Permit to work and job safety analysis.
• To implement and maintain the operating procedures, ensuring that they are reviewed and up-dated from time to time. To put controls to see the effectiveness of these procedures and to ensure that these are followed.
• To ensure through proper training and support to the team that the emergencies handling and start-ups/shutdowns are done thus ensuring the safe, optimum and efficient plant operations with safety of the working personnel.
• Ensure that personnel are well prepared to handle the plant emergencies and take steps to have proactive emergency discussion in t he shifts as per the agreed schedule.
• In emergency, decides and directs necessary activities in co-ordination with the Shift Engineer to implement facilities shutdown and blow down operation to protect personnel and equipment.
• To strive for Continuous Improvement in the processes and HSE and to encourage employees to highlight initiatives and ideas which can help prevent Incidents and/or help in maintaining and optimizing the production rates.
• Ensure that Operators skill certification is carried out timely and to follow up with the Shift Engineers to have skill certification as per the agreed program. Ensure that all operators go through the skill certification before he is given an independent operation area.
• To have a better control, ensure that the activities done by the team is cross checked and questioned in terms of safety and operations. This includes physical rounds in the operating areas.
• Ensure that a proper Job safety analysis and/or site visits are carried before any critical job and /or activity.
• Ensure that proper follow up is carried out with the Bhit Warehouse for the Inventory and non-inventory items and a timely ordering is carried out (Inventory Management).
• To strictly control production budget and strive to process and expense optimization.
• Ensure that a proper Shutdown planning (Procurement, Risk assessments and procedures) is carried out and the shutdown is carried out in the safest possible manner.