Specific Responsibilities
The Director Offshore Projects for Apache Corporation will be a member of Apache’s Offshore Projects team at the company’s Houston, Texas office reporting to the Vice President of Facilities Engineering and Projects. The Director, Offshore Projects, provides functional leadership and direction for the Facilities asset teams working on Suriname, New Ventures & Gulf of Mexico Decommissioning as required in relation to the following areas:
- Safety, Regulatory & Environment
- Scope of Work & Success Criteria
- Governance & Control
- Risk Mitigation & Change Management
- Project Preparation & Execution
- Floating production storage & offloading (FPSO) facilities;
- Senior Level Stakeholder Relationship Management
This role will be primarily responsible for the following:
- Ensure safety is addressed in all aspects of work planning and execution;
- Accountable for development of engineering work scopes within a safety, cost, schedule and quality framework;
- Approve of the selection of contract engineering firms for use on projects;
- Monitor status of overall schedule, and quality for projects stewarded within the team;
- Interface with Asset Management and Operations functional leadership frequently to coordinate resources and resolve project issues;
- Report out project progress to the VP, Facilities Engineering and conduct regular status reviews (schedule, performance);
- Ensure project learnings are captured and available to be shared;
- Develop and implement initiatives to improve efficiencies and performance.
- Ensure stakeholders are updated and aligned as required during conceptual developments and relevant project checkpoints to enable effective and efficient approvals.
- Stage Gate Keeper with respect to project objectives.
- Provide planning and facilities engineering support to New Venture opportunities.
Qualifications & Experience
The successful candidate will have the following qualifications and experience:
- Bachelor or Masters Degree in related field or discipline;
- Project Management Qualified (PMP or equivalent);
- Minimum 20+ Years Project Management and Project Controls experience;
- Full understanding of standard practices and interfacing requirements with Engineering, Procurement and Construction contractors;
- Ability to gain a full understanding of Apache guidelines and processes.
- Strong economic, analytical, leadership, negotiation and communication skills.
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 given greater opportunities to elevate their families to higher standards of living. We are committed to providing oil and natural gas in more innovative and sustainable ways to help meet the world's energy needs.
Apache Corporation is a wholly owned subsidiary of APA Corporation (NASDAQ: APA). Apache and other affiliated subsidiaries have operations in the United States, Egypt and the United Kingdom's North Sea and exploration opportunities offshore Suriname and elsewhere.
For additional information about APA Corporation, please visit: www.apacorp.com.
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.