Project Lead – Operations & Maintenance

 

Contract type: Consultant, estimated duration 12 to 18 months.

Location: Luanda, remote work can be accommodated for set periods. 

 

The most operationally critical Block Lead role. Accountable for sustained, safe operations without interruption from Day 1 under the Company’s operatorship. Leads six workstreams spanning the full operational footprint of the asset.

WORKSTREAMS

•     Asset Integrity: Verifying asset integrity to enable a safe and reliable transfer of operations, identifying critical integrity exposures, and quantifying the remediation and investment required from Day 1 onward.

•     Facilities O&M: Defining the operating model from well to terminal treatment facilities and export, establishing an integrity baseline and maintenance strategy, and preparing the Day 1 operational readiness plan.

•     Facilities Onshore: Mapping onshore assets and securing continuity of critical support services (logistics, utilities, aviation, marine, warehousing).

•     Supply Chain: Mapping the end-to-end logistics network, identifying critical contracts, and preparing Day 1 logistics readiness and contingency plans.

•     OIM Voice: Capturing Offshore Installation Manager perspectives on transition risks and feeding them into the operating model before it is finalised.

•     Material Management: Building a full inventory of spares, consumables and critical equipment, valuing stock, and formalising handover from the outgoing operator.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

•     Operating model: Ensuring the new deepwater asset has clear roles, interfaces and decision rights from reservoir to topside on Day 1.

•     Asset integrity: Understanding what the Company is inheriting, including deferred maintenance and where operational risk is concentrated.

•     Logistics and supply chain: Ensuring the logistics network is mapped, contracted and contingency-ready before handover.

•     OIM integration: Ensuring offshore leadership perspectives are embedded in the transition design before it is finalised.

•     Material handover: Owning the completeness and accuracy of what the Company physically receives from the outgoing operator.

KEY COMPETENCIES

•     Operational command: Has run a complex offshore asset and builds trust quickly with an inherited team.

•     Cross-discipline integration: Holds a coherent view across reservoir, wells, subsea, topside and logistics.

•     Project management: Able to lead a six-w