Specific Responsibilities
- Serve as the field-based operational leader for the Tarek area in a 14/14 rotational, field-based assignment requiring full-time on-site leadership during rotation.
- Provide overall production engineering oversight for Tarek Area including the Tarek Gas Plant (TGP), associated RPF facilities, gas wells, oil wells, and field gathering systems. The Tarek Area forms a key part of the Central Area.
- Ensure full alignment with Apache corporate and functional objectives by prioritizing safe operations, delivering production targets, and maintaining strict fiscal discipline.
- Lead troubleshooting of plant, compression, and gathering system downtime; identify root causes and coordinate corrective actions across Maintenance, Asset Integrity, and Projects.
- Monitor and optimize facility throughput, compression efficiency, and gathering system performance; identify debottlenecking opportunities to increase gas and condensate production.
- Provide direct oversight of contractor-operated RPFs, ensuring compliance with contractual obligations, performance standards and EH&S requirements.
- Ensure safe and efficient operation of the gas plant and associated facilities by enforcing adherence to KPC policies and procedures; hold all KPC staff and contractors accountable for compliance with EH&S standards, Permit to Work requirements, preventive maintenance programs, and Management of Change processes.
- Act as the technical authority at Tarek, operating with a high degree of autonomy and minimal supervision.
- Mentor, guide, and develop KPC production and operations staff, ensuring proper stewardship of KPC-owned assets within contractor-operated facilities.
- Support capital projects through construction, commissioning, and startup, ensuring operational readiness, and performance alignment.
- Lead technical input for turnarounds and major maintenance activities, coordinating with Gas Management and relevant stakeholders while maintaining budget awareness.
Qualifications & Experience
The successful candidate will have the following qualifications and experience:
- BS Degree in Engineering Discipline
- 12-15+ years operations experience all types of oil and gas operations: wells and well behaviours, artificial lift, gathering systems, water flood, oil and gas process systems, rotating equipment, compression, pipelines, safety programs, etc.
- 5 years experience working in an international JV environment
- Demonstrable ability to work in a fast paced and dynamic integrated team environment & communicate effectively across disciplines.
- Role model in Safety Leadership, Operational Excellence, Cost Leadership & Continuous Improvement.
- Strong communication skills, be a self starter in identifying opportunities, overcoming obstacles and pursuing initiatives through to completion.
- Proficiency at using the industry standard suite of Microsoft Office applications
Competencies
The successful candidate should demonstrate and exhibit 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.
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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Apache Statement on Hiring
To provide genuine equal opportunity to all people, it is the policy of Apache Corporation and its subsidiaries to base all employment-related decisions and actions exclusively on employment-related criteria. To provide genuine equal opportunity to all people, it is the policy of Apache Corporation and its subsidiaries to provide broad dissemination of job opportunities, as consistent with the nature of the positions. To provide genuine equal opportunity to all people, it is the policy of Apache Corporation and its subsidiaries to review its employment-related policies and actions on a regular basis to ensure that their application is consistent with their intent.