Job Summary:

DNO is a Norwegian oil and gas operator focused on the Middle East region and the North Sea. Founded in 1971, DNO is Norway’s oldest oil company. With a leading position in terms of reserves and production in the Kurdistan region of Iraq, DNO produces around 110,000 barrels of oil per day from the flagship Tawke field.

Overall Duty: 

• Head of gas operations is the primary point of contact and the operations on site and provides regular reports to the top management to show the efficient performance of the site within the budget in a timely fashion.
• Manages, supervises and coordinates the Peshkabir Gas Plant, Tawke gas compression Station and Tawke/Peshkabir Gas Injection operations (Processing, Maintenance and Logistics) in accordance with Company’s policies and objectives.
• Manages, schedules, and safely executes the gas field operations to ensure that the production of the products increases for the company’s growth. 
• Plan production and responsible for achieving the production targets in a safe manner at the estimated expenditure. This is achieved by liaison with the production, drilling, and other field operators.
• Promotes the image of the Company on the occasion of VIP’s visits and develops good and fruitful relationships with local authorities and communities.

Health, Safety and Environment:

• Ensures that the Production, Maintenance and Logistics activities are conducted in compliance with the applicable HSE procedures/standards, including the Permit to Work system and Asset Integrity Management System.
• Acts as the permanent Company representative and is fully responsible for all decisions affecting the Health, Safety and Security of all personnel on site. He has authority to stop operations, constructions, or any other activity that may jeopardise the safety or security of the personnel and installations/assets.
• Near Miss and Incident reporting.
• Act as Operation Lead in Incident Management Team (IMT) as per Emergency Response Plan.

Job Content:

• Directs and supervises the operations in an efficient and safe manner in order to maintain the daily gas injection targets.
• Initiates troubleshooting of all various arising problems related to Gas processing, maintenance, gas export, gas injection and arbitrates as necessary between different departments/ suppliers to pursue efficient operations.
• Promotes accurate reporting and feedback, good use of the EPICOR Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system, involves and motivates all personnel on reporting Anomalies and get them resolved in specified time.
• Ensures site coordination with Peshkabir CPF, Fishkabour and Tawke facilities.
• Responsible for the implementation, enforcement, development and updating of all the Safety and Operating Procedures.
• Discusses and sets-up the annual objectives with his subordinates, monitors their performances on a regular basis.  Performs the personnel periodic appraisals setting-up new objectives.
• Proposes, promotes and follows-up the required actions for personnel training.

Accountabilities:

• To guarantee a high Health, Safety and Environment standard of the personnel according to Company’s procedures and guidelines.
• To ensure and maintain a high level of safety and reliability of the Gas processing facilities and Gas injection wells operations in order to optimise financial incomes and results.
• To promote a good image of the Company by maintaining high team spirit among site personnel and good relationship with local authorities and communities.
• To ensure the implementation of the onsite training and the development of the personnel.
• To ensure that the Housekeeping of all the sites for which responsible and meets Company standards.
• To promote “Deliverability Consciousness” on site.

Required Qualifications & Experience : 

• Ideally BSc or MSc Degree or at least 20-25 years “hands on” experience in the Oil & Gas industry.
• Minimum of 10 years practical experience in Gas Production and Processing with a good knowledge of the Maintenance and Inspection activities.
• Good ability to work in a multi-cultural environment.
• Fluent spoken and written English.

The role reports to Oil Productions Manager and will be based in Erbil Kurdistan. The work schedule will be rotational type 6 weeks on / 3 weeks off and the contract duration will be unlimited. 

Please apply using a PDF version of your CV.