As Director of European Operations, you will be responsible for actively supporting a wide variety of membership interests across Europe with a focus on HSE, training and regulatory issues.
This full-time contract position will allow you to use your in-depth knowledge of the global oil and gas industry to build a substantial network within the association and the industry within Europe.
You will take on a Project Management lead role and be responsible for managing and delivery within budget. You are to deliver Prospect projects, using your own technical expertise and experience in Engineering Design and Computational Analysis as well as group-wide technical support.
Design and specification of hydraulic systems for marine and offshore cranes.
Calculations in accordance with the regulations of the classification companies.
Follow-up of workshops and subcontractors at home and abroad.
Participation in design and product development for our projects.
You will report to the Principal Engineer, you will support the execution of Prospect projects, using your own technical expertise and experience in Engineering Design, Computational Analysis as well as group-wide technical support.
In this key role, you’ll have an important part to play in the wide range of new Oil and Gas developments we’re rolling out across the globe. And when you realise the scale and scope of what will often be $multi-billion projects, you’ll understand what an exciting opportunity that presents. Providing technical expertise on every aspect of Process Control, the challenges you’ll face will be as diverse as the projects you’re involved in. As well as working closely with Development Managers and Subsurface professionals to make the most of our existing sites and develop new proposals, you’ll oversee the work of contractors from conceptual studies all the way through to the detailed design stage. You’ll also contribute significantly to the development of less experienced colleagues.
Low investment in human capital in the energy industry has created a global shortage of skilled labour which poses a serious threat to safety, a major oil company chief told a gas conference today.
Malaysian oil company Petronas's chief executive Hassan Marican told the World Gas Conference in Amsterdam the energy industry had been ignoring the problem for too long.
"Today we face global shortage (of skilled staff) in every part of the industry chain. I raise this issue not because it's increasing our costs but because I'm seriously concerned about the safety element," Marican said.
"The chances of a major incident cannot be ignored and if it happens, hopefully not, it would put the industry (years) back," the head of Malaysia's state oil and gas company said.
Oil and gas firms around the world have seen costs rising partly due to the shortage of skilled labour, as the average age of engineers in the industry approaches 50 years, analysts say.
Officials at Anglo-Dutch oil giant Shell have said the industry faces losing half of its existing workforce to retirement within 10 years, with the average age of workers now standing at more than 45 years old.
Industry officials warned last month that oil and gas explorers in Australia's waters could be forced to scale down their activities due to a global shortage of skilled labour and equipment.
"Investment in human capital is very low ... Labour is thin everywhere," Petronas's Marican said.
"We have been too preoccupied - and that's because of the high oil price probably - with optimising and cost efficiency that we have forgotten the most important element."
The chief executive of US oil major Chevron, Dave O'Reilly, told the conference the industry had to start promoting itself at schools and universities to attract young labour.
He attributed the shortage of skilled workers partly due to the fact that the energy industry had been viewed as a bad career opportunity for decades.
"We are competing for the same resources now, but we'd better grow new ones," O'Reilly said.