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Job purpose:
Under the general direction of OQ8 COO, the Head of Operational Excellence manages and oversees OQ8’s Operational Excellence initiatives strategic people initiatives. Create a culture of Continuous Improvement that will create tangible value and elevate the maturity of OQ8’s refinery operations by adopting best practices and structured problem-solving tools and improvement methodologies. Simplify processes to improve productivity and quality, remove waste and reduce costs. Provide technological and economic know-how for OQ8 Refining development to drive profitability within organic and non-organic growth and to achieve compliance with internal and external (legal) requirements.
The position will act in accordance with the OQ8’s Mission, Vision, Values & Strategies, as well as, policies, guidelines and standards, supported by an IT Technology platform, HSE standards, Oman’s government & other legal justifications, and best international practices in consonance with national objectives.
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Tasks and Responsibilities:
Develop, champion, and implement the OQ8 strategy for Operational Excellence, translating its vision into a definitive action plan that drives exceptional value across the businesses.
Projects
- Capital investment projects for sustainable technical and economic development
- Planning, evaluation and control of entire refinery investment portfolio until project budget release
- Developing Technical Development & Economics’ capability to support front end development of measures and investment projects
- Providing technical expertise in time, cost and technical quality from phase Feasibility and participating in overall project definition and project set up
- Providing technical expertise optimum in life-cycle-costs in consideration of legal and technical applicable regulations and standards
- Providing technical expertise in legal compliance relevant and technical issues for project realization
Product Quality and Production
- Develop and implement Product Quality Management Frameworks, Product Quality Policies, and managing Product Quality improvements.
- Develop effective organization and efficiency in Lab activities
- Development and improvement of products including evaluation of components and additives
Energy, Loss, Mass Balance, Metering
- Performance management of energy & loss (flaring, transit, BS&W, fugitive, unaccounted, etc.), including benchmarks, performance, improvement
- Execute best practices associated with hydrocarbon/oil accounting, including processes, tools, and data
- Develop and implement management practices.
Digitalization & Integrated Management System (IMS) for Downstream Assets
- Experience using digitization and IMS to support operational excellence in the above areas
- Experience with the deployment and use of these systems, including supporting management changes processes.
Process Safety
- Identify gaps in process safety management processes and develop measures to close them
- Analyze the RCA process how it is implemented and used in the organization; define potential for improvements
- Check the effective “learning out of incidents” implementation and define improvement potentials
- Provide expertise in change management, HAZOP, MOC
People Management:
- Analyze culture of leader’s interaction and develop programs to improve business behavior of leadership team
- Analyze deficits in following procedures in operator’s day-to-day work and develop measures to close gaps
- Analyze leadership capability of shift supervisors and develop leadership trainings to close the gap
Production
- Analyze deficits in sustainable, safe and profitable production in time, quality and volume.
- Engage and influence senior leaders across Operations, Commercial, and other functions. Lead high-impact, cross-functional teams using advanced Lean and Continuous Improvement methodologies to solve complex business problems.
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16 years of relevant experience in Oil & Gas Refinery Industry with specific areas on:
1- Downstream Benchmarking and KPIs:
- Deep expertise in the basis and use of downstream benchmarking and performance management, including refining and petrochemical processes.
- Expertise with Solomon is essential, but experience must extend into other metrics that support day-to-day, month-to-month assessment of performance.
2- Process Surveillance:
- Experience in processes and practices around process surveillance and intervention, including minimum requirements and links to Downstream performance and benchmarking.
- Experience working with Operations and Technical to implement/improve availability
- Expertise in managing a business transformation matrix
- Expertise in Advanced Process Control (APC)
- Exposure in Simulation Software
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Soft & Leadership
- Management & leadership skills
- Stakeholder management
- Detailed-oriented with excellent organizing and planning skills.
- Ability to establish and maintain effective working relations with people in a multi-cultural environment
- Ability to work on own initiative
- Good communication skills & interpersonal skills.
- Ability to be flexible, motivated, resourceful, and organized to work in a multi-functional role
- Builds expert knowledge in our organization and conveys knowledge to others
Technical:
- Computer literate with expertise in MS Office.
- Detailed oriented with excellent organizing and planning skills.
- Ability to think strategically and to ensure that refinery issues are addressed in the strategy and operational plans
- Ability to identify staff’s needs and provide appropriate solutions.
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