Specific Responsibilities
The Area Operations Manager will be responsible for overseeing production operations in the Midland Basin, providing leadership to field teams and ensuring safe, efficient, and cost-effective operations aligned with Apache’s strategic goals.
Key Responsibilities:
- Ensure Compliance: Maintain adherence to Apache’s EHS standards, quality protocols, and all applicable health and safety regulations.
- Leadership & Direction: Provide clear leadership for all employees and contractors across production and electrical operations.
- Cross-Functional Alignment: Collaborate closely with cross-functional departments to ensure operational efforts are aligned with broader company objectives.
- Contractor Management: Develop and maintain strong relationships with contractors to ensure safe, reliable, and cost-efficient operations.
- Performance Optimization: Monitor and evaluate production performance and expense data to identify optimization opportunities. Participate in monthly management reviews of operational results.
- Team Development: Foster staff development through goal setting, performance feedback, training, and thoughtful work assignments.
- Operational Planning: Coordinate future operational activities and ensure clear communication of plans and outcomes to team members and leadership.
- Organizational Leadership: Cultivate a culture of continuous improvement, collaboration, and accountability within the operations team. Mentor and develop employees to support long-term career growth.
- Production Oversight: Work closely with engineers and field operators to conduct frequent production reviews. Participate in detailed periodic production meetings.
- Production & Cost Management: Drive production efficiency and cost control. Seek and implement innovative production enhancement solutions.
- Regulatory Compliance: Ensure all company and contract personnel follow operating and regulatory procedures to maximize safety, value, and efficiency.
Qualifications & Experience
The successful candidate will have the following qualifications and experience:
- High School Diploma or equivalent required
- 8 to 15 years of relevant E&P company experience in Production Operations and/or Engineering.
- College degree preferred but not required
- Strong communication and organizational skills - able to work well with field personnel, peers, management and stakeholders
- Able to prioritize multiple projects
- High degree of initiative and independent judgment
- Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
- Capability to perform duties with a high level of accuracy.
- Ability to organize work, engage in a variety of tasks simultaneously and consistently meet deadlines.
- Strong computer skills.
- Excellent oral and written 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 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.