Team Leader, Process Safety

Job description / Role

About the Company

ADNOC Gas is a large-scale, integrated gas processing company and a subsidiary of ADNOC, one of the world's largest integrated energy companies. As a leading global gas player with access to capacity of around 10 billion standard cubic feet of gas per day (bscfd), we serve a wide range of domestic and international customers with an expanding portfolio of products. We supply around 60% of the UAE's gas needs and export natural gas and related products to a diverse customer base in over 20 countries.

About the Job

Manage the development, support cost-effective programmes to improve and assure Process Safety implementation across all company Plant & Pipeline assets, throughout their lifecycle. Establish and maintain related processes, standards, procedures and a companywide maintenance Centre of Excellence. Manage the full visibility of Process Safety implementation performance and threats in order to contribute to broad awareness of the status of the Process Safety that enables decision-making at all levels of the Organisation including shareholders.

Key Accountabilities

Policy & Standards Processes and Practices
- Develop, improve, maintain and communicate company's Process Safety framework and standards to ensure that they are updated and continually improved thereby contributing to the company objectives in the safety throughout the asset lifecycle. These standards include MOC (PCM/PCR), Operating Windows, Shift Hand Over, Alarm Management, Abnormal Situations Management etc, all of which are applicable throughout the asset lifecycle.
- Manage and ensure the development, implementation, support and monitoring of improvement programs for Process Safety related policy, processes, standards, procedures and tools in order to continually improve their effectiveness and enable performance visibility at all levels, ensuring compliance with company standards. These include roll-out of the standards related to "Ensure Safe Production" throughout company operating assets and into projects.
- Establish and manage a process whereby Process Safety events and risks are reviewed across company, improvement areas are identified and follow up mitigating actions taken in order to ensure that a repeat of similar events are prevented.

Performance Monitoring & Reporting
- Develop and support the implementation of a coherent, accurate reporting system for the Process Safety performance of the assets and related processes to provide basis for management decisions at all levels of company.

Community and Networks
- Set up and manage effective networks of internal stakeholders (e.g. process owners and subject matter experts) and activate associated governance to maximise the benefit to company.
- Encourage a proactive attitude and culture towards Process Safety, challenge entrenched practices and established ways of working and change these to align with standardised world class practices.
- Provide expert advice, support and training in relevant areas and act as interface between sites and other entities across company in order to establish and sustain the new ways of working.

Risk Management & Process Safety
- Contribute to the development of the corporate risk register and ensure that risks are properly registered and periodically assessed in order to ensure process safety and considerations are taken into account.
- Contribute to a comprehensive risk based audit plan across all company Plants and Pipelines, as a Risk Assurer, in coordination with all stakeholders for Level 2 and 3 Audits in order to comply with ADNOC codes of practices.
- Lead and support Level 1 & 2 audits in line with company corporate risk controls and track audit action items in QUARTZ to ensure Process Safety related Audit action items have been closed out.

Management
- Plan and supervise the activities of the personnel and resources of the team to achieve the Department objectives in an efficient and cost-conscious manner while ensuring implementation of approved operational plans for the team in line with Department objectives.
- Develop the knowledge, competencies and innovative spirit in the team and support the establishment of Personal Development Plans (PDP's), Succession Planning and Talent pipeline within the team in coordination with the Human Capability Group to continuously develop employees with emphasis on UAE Nationals to meet Emiratization targets.

Budgets and Operational Plans
- Compile and provide input for preparation of the Department budgets and regularly monitor expenditure against approved the team budget levels.
- Investigate, highlight and reconcile any significant variances to ensure effective performance and cost control.

Policies, Systems, Processes & Procedures
- Lead the implementation of approved team policies, processes, systems, standards, procedures and internal controls in order to support execution of the Department work programs in line with Company and International standards.

Performance Management
- Implement the Company Performance Management System for individuals within the team in accordance with Company approved guidelines and continuously monitor the achievement of the Team KPIs related to the approved Annual Performance Management Contract and the Balanced Score Card.

Organisation Structure and Development
- Review, develop and recommend the appropriate organisation structure for the Team that will best utilise human capital while proactively incorporating sustainability into the on-going work practices to meet the business objectives.

Innovation and Continuous Improvement
- Encourage innovation, enhance employee motivation and support initiatives for implementation of Change Management to continuously improve operations and services.
- Propose improvements in internal processes against best practices in pursuit of greater efficiency in line with best Industry standards in order to define intelligent solutions for issues confronting the team.

Health, Safety, Environment (HSE) and Sustainability
- Support the institution of an HSE culture and ensure compliance with relevant HSE policies, procedures, systems & controls and applicable legislation and sustainability guidelines across the team in line with international standards, best practices and ADNOC Code of Practices.
- Ensure adequate HSE training and induction for all team employees to meet HSE standards.

Management Reports
- Prepare all the MIS and progress reports to provide accurate and timely reports and necessary information to Company Management to effectively manage the business.

Requirements

Minimum Requirements
- Bachelor Degree in Chemical Engineering or equivalent Professional Qualification.
- 10 years of experience in operation / technical services /integrity assurance/process safety oil & gas industry [preferably onshore gas processing] plant production, preferred exposure to loss prevention techniques, Safety cases/COMAH reports, Bow Tie Assessments, LOPA, ALARP, SIL, HAZOP, QRA, etc. Including 4 years in supervisory roles.
- Understanding of all engineering disciplines, risk management, loss prevention techniques, and in the areas of operations integrity & process safety.
- Sound knowledge & application of international engineering standards & codes [API, EEMU, ISA]
- Experience in leading world class process safety programmes.
- Experience of process safety audits for oil / gas plants.
- Comprehensive knowledge of industry best practices and technology trends, especially in the operations integrity areas.
- Competency in managing process safety programmes for all asset life cycle phases.
- Ability to guide/develop process safety related manuals/ procedures /guidelines.

About the Company

We are one of the world's leading energy producers, and a primary catalyst for Abu Dhabi’s growth and diversification.

We operate across the entire hydrocarbon value chain, through a network of fully-integrated businesses, with interests that range from exploration, production, storage, refining and distribution, to the development of a wide-range of petrochemical products.

Since 1971, we have created thousands of jobs, driven the growth of a diverse knowledge-based economy, and played a key role in Abu Dhabi’s global emergence.

Today, we continue to look for new and innovative ways to maximize the value of our resources, pioneering those approaches and technologies that will ensure we are able to meet the demands of an ever-changing energy market, and continue to have a positive impact on the Abu Dhabi economy for generations to come.