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Job Title:  Field Manager/Deputy Field Operations Director 

Organisation: NFT Consult Limited

Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda

Reports to: Operations Director

About the Company:

NFT Consult Limited is a business process outsourcing firm with offices in Uganda, South Africa, Kenya, Botswana Rwanda, Tanzania, Zambia, Burundi and South Sudan.

Client brief:

The East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP) Project involves the construction and operation of a buried, cross-border pipeline to transport crude oil from the Lake Albert area in Uganda to the eastern coast of Tanzania for export to international markets. The pipeline will run from Kabaale in Hoima District, Uganda, to Chongoleani, Tanga Region, in Tanzania. The length of the pipeline is 1,443 kilometres (km) of which 296 km will be in Uganda.  In Uganda, the pipeline will traverse ten (10) Districts, comprising Hoima, Kikuube, Kakumiro, Kyankwanzi, Mubende, Gomba, Sembabule, Lwengo, Rakai, and Kyotera.

Job Summary:   The Field Manager/Deputy Field Operations Director will be responsible for Uganda site Field Operations readiness during construction, pre-commissioning, commissioning, and start-up phases, and to lead the handover process to ensure safe and efficient operations in compliance with the Company H3SE, associated legislation, and company procedures.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

• Directs and coordinates all Uganda operational activities to achieve safety, environment, and transportation/maintenance targets cost-effectively.
• Substitutes for Operational Director in his absence.
• Ensures proper Operational reporting and meetings management.
• Maintains the safety of the Uganda operational assets by ensuring appropriate controls are in place such that the integrity of safety systems is always maintained.
• Follows up near misses, dangerous occurrences, and accidents and acts to prevent recurrence.
• Ensures operational procedures are kept up to date, understood, and implemented to ensure statutory and company safety requirements are met.
• Directs Uganda Operations planning and prioritization process to ensure coordination of activities on 24-month / 4-month & 5-week horizons.
• Ensures transverse coordination during the project, the Startup, and the steady state operations phases.
• Participates in preparing the operations’ annual budget.
• Approves modifications and accepts handovers on behalf of Uganda operational assets, of all new or modified equipment to ensure safe and effective operations.
• Manages, motivates, and develops staff, via appraisal and training, to provide the correct level of personnel to meet operational objectives.
• Actively identifies best practices (industry, technical, professional, etc.) and encourages an environment in which this is willingly and openly shared.
• Creates an environment in which a focus on value awareness, lean management are developed and constantly think in terms of cost/benefit trade-off.
• Maintains regular (site) contact and an open style with all levels of personnel to ensure management is aware of problems and appropriate actions are taken if required.
• Proactively carries out the activities of the job.
• Always acts in the best interest of EACOP.
• Fully complies with Company H3SE (Health, Safety, Social, Security & Environment) policies and Life Saving Rules.
• Actively participates in HSEQ and promotes this culture to co-workers.
• Remain vigilant and maintain continuous awareness of potentially unsafe conditions.
• Communicates to management any HSE-related concerns and ways to improve them.
• Maintains a workplace & workspace that is safe, clean, and always neat – practice good housekeeping.

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in engineering (i.e., Petroleum, industrial, mechanical).
• English proficiency
• Document, report writing skills (method)
• Minimum 15 years Field Operations experience, onshore asset experience preferable
• Leadership experience as a Site Manager or equivalent position-like Head of Production is a minimum requirement.
• Demonstrated capacities in HSE, personnel management, and technical/operational matters.
• Sound knowledge of policies, rules, and specifications. Operational management capability and an aptitude to adapt to changing situations.
• Good supervisory, communication and negotiation skills with the ability to motivate the team

How to Apply:
All suitably qualified and interested candidates should apply online through the NFT jobs portal.

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Deadline: 24th September 2024        

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