Specific Responsibilities
Overview
As a key member of Apache’s U.S. Onshore Operations team, the Operations and Development General Manager - Alaska reports to the Senior Vice President of U.S. Assets and Corporate Development. This senior leader will deliver technical and strategic oversight for all Alaska field operations, ensuring safe, efficient, and profitable execution of exploration and production activities in line with company standards, local regulations, and industry best practices. The ideal candidate brings 20+ years of upstream oil and gas experience, with demonstrated senior technical, logistical, and managerial leadership on Alaska's North Slope.
Key Responsibilities:
Exploration Operations Leadership & Oversight:
- Provide technical direction, oversight and leadership for drilling, completions, production, and field operations related to exploration and appraisal campaigns.
- Develop and implement operational strategies aligned with the company’s growth objectives and technical standards.
- Work in partnership with Exploration Director and multidisciplinary teams including subsurface, engineering, geoscience, and project teams to plan and execute safe, compliant, cost-effective programs.
- Oversee budgeting, forecasting, cost control, contractor procurement, logistics, HSE compliance, crisis response, and KPI monitoring.
- Build, mentor, and lead a high-performing local team, promoting a safety-first culture and operational excellence.
- Coordinate with the current operator (Armstrong) on the transition of operatorship to Apache for exploration and appraisal drilling activities.
Asset Development Team Build-Out & Oversight:
- Lead phased team expansion aligned with exploration outcomes and Apache senior leadership input.
- Direct all phases of development including concept screening, FEED, EPC contracting, commissioning and start-up.
- Advise on corporate strategy, analysis to support investment decisions related to development of discovered resource in Alaska.
- Manage talent sourcing (internal, external, contractors), and regulatory engagement to expedite discovery-to-first-oil timelines.
Apache in Alaska
Apache is partnered with Armstrong Oil and Gas and Santos in a joint venture which covers ~375,000 gross acres on the North Slope of Alaska. Apache has an ~50% working interest across the acreage. To date, the partnership has had two oil discoveries at Kingstreet-1 (2024) and Sockeye-2 (2025). The General Manager will support the current operator (Armstrong), while preparing Apache to assume operatorship of exploration and appraisal activities as soon as reasonably practicable. Operations are planned to resume during the 2026-2027 winter season, targeting the drilling of 1 or 2 additional exploration / appraisal wells.
Qualifications & Experience
The successful candidate will have the following qualifications and experience:
- Bachelor’s degree in Petroleum Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field (Master’s preferred).
- 20+ years in oil and gas operations, with 5+ years in senior leadership.
- Proven expertise building multidisciplinary teams and managing large-scale North Slope operations.
- Deep technical knowledge of drilling, production, and well operations.
- Established track record and vendor relationships for North Slope drilling and development.
- Strong grasp of HSE, regulatory, financial, and stakeholder management principles.
- Proficiency navigating government relations, local content, and regional supply chain issues.
Competencies
The successful candidate will lead by example through successfully demonstrating the following:
- Core Competencies
- Communication: Writes, speaks, and presents information effectively and persuasively across communication setting;
- Results: Pursues work with energy, drive, and results orientation to positively impact Apache’s business success;
- Collaboration: Works in partnership with others and encourages different perspectives, while building and maintaining trust; and
- Culture: Willingness and ability to align one’s behavior with the needs, priorities, and goals of Apache.
- Leadership Competencies
- Servant Leadership: Inspires and enables performance excellence through feedback, empathy, development and empowerment;
- Strategic Mindset: Applies business acumen to see the big picture, understand business issues, and exhibit financial stewardship;
- Change Leadership: Inspires change by challenging the status quo, generating support, and executing improvement projects to achieve business outcomes; and
- Leading Effective Teams: Enables performance excellence through effective structure, delegation, and motivation.
Company Overview
Our primary product is energy, and where there is affordable, abundant energy, people are healthier, have access to better education, and are given greater opportunities to elevate their families to higher standards of living.
Nearly 3 billion people — roughly one-third of the global population — live without electricity or without clean cooking facilities. We are committed to providing energy in innovative and more sustainable ways to help raise the standard of living for those living in energy poverty and to meet the ongoing demands of people and economies around the world.
The products we deliver power increasingly cleaner electricity across the globe, fuel tractors and trucks, make fertilizer to keep the world's food supply on the table, and heat our schools, hospitals and businesses.
Our employees bring a wide range of talents and skills to the job every day to tackle complex business challenges. We believe in providing a truly rewarding work environment supported by a benefits platform that ranks among the best in our peer group. Our company offers career development opportunities where employees can grow personally and professionally. We promote employee benefits that cultivate a family-friendly work environment and focus on our employees' overall well-being.
We are committed to being a workplace where all employees are valued and can thrive with a sense of belonging. Our commitment to non-discriminatory, equal employment opportunities benefits our individual employees, our company and our external stakeholders; we are better as an organization when various experiences, ideas, and perspectives are brought to the table.
Apache Corporation is a wholly owned subsidiary of APA Corporation (NASDAQ:APA). Apache has operations in the United States, Egypt's Western Desert and the United Kingdom's North Sea and a sister company with exploration opportunities offshore Suriname. Whether supporting Apache, APA Corporation or one of its subsidiaries, team members are employed by Apache Corporation.
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