Team Leader, Plant Operations

Job description / Role

JOB PURPOSE

The jobholder is responsible to lead the Plant Operations and Team to achieve the planned targets in line with the Borouge's operating standards, HSE, and Asset Management Policies. This role includes; managing the daily operations and team, overseeing and the asset performance and aligning the maintenance, shutdown, and any plant modification activities, monitoring and aligning the operational safety, and participating in any plant related projects and activities.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES

Shift Management
• Plan the plant operations' shifts to ensure availability of the required staffing and skills.
• Organize the workload among the shift teams to ensure balanced activities by the teams per shift to meet the respective targets.
• Lead the daily communications for shift and operations updates to ensure consistent and timely information cascaded to the team.
• Auditing of the shift duties according to operation checklists and suggest necessary update, and review of daily checklist and SOPs implementation.
• Provide the team with support and guidance in relevance to all activities, policy and procedures Production Planning & Control
• Lead the daily operations to meet the production targets, while ensuring compliance to the respective plant practices in the areas of HSE, Asset Integrity, Process, Product, and Technology.
• Direct, coordinate and supervise the Plant activities and assigned personnel on shift. Perform management functions at the level established by Senior Management.
• Plan and update operation schedule and communicates this with the planning team.
• Interface with Production Planning & Participate in the meetings with OPCO's on operations & coordination issues.

Internal Asset Management
• Lead the team to support safe and proper plant working conditions to safeguard the company's team, assets, products, and environment.
• Review the Logs of the Shift Supervisors with emphasis on ensuring quality and detail presentation of data. Submit technical reports on Plant trips, abnormal operations/accidents/near misses.
• Participate in root cause analysis and propose modifications to equipment to improve efficiency. Include studying various problems related to the operating equipment, making recommendations for improvement. Authorize for implementing Engineering and other Changes in Plant.
• In close cooperations with Production engineer(s) and Shift Supervisor, follow-up Utilities plant operations regarding, plant optimisation, equipment status, product specifications, and asset related stakeholder
• Follow-up run length and performance for critical equipment
• Monitor performance of equipment and process units and initiate changes to improve plant reliability/operability/maintainability.
• Monitor performance of equipment and process units and suggest improvements to enhance plant reliability. He is the focal point for Co-ordination with External parties supply. Maintenance Coordination
• Monitor the status of all equipment within the Plant through frequent inspection to ensure that equipment is in the best possible condition with relation to safety and performance
• Direct and control the preparation of Plant equipment for maintenance & overhaul activities ensuring safe working conditions.
• Give guidelines for preparing instructions and plans (SOP's) to isolate and prepare equipment and/or process units for safe maintenance activities. Updates Operating Manuals as necessary to reflect gained operating experience and new equipment.

QUALIFICATIONS, EXPERIENCE, KNOWLEDGE & SKILLS

Minimum Qualification

• University Degree in Chemical Engineering or equivalent qualifications.

Minimum Experience & Knowledge & Skills

• Minimum of 10 years of experience in plant operations with at least 5 years of leading rules.
• Good Problem Solving, Analysing and Leadership skills. Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, multi-cultural workforce exposure
• Demonstrate presentation skill.
• Knowledge of international standards & Knowledge of latest technologies.

About the Company

We are one of the world's leading energy producers, and a primary catalyst for Abu Dhabi’s growth and diversification.

We operate across the entire hydrocarbon value chain, through a network of fully-integrated businesses, with interests that range from exploration, production, storage, refining and distribution, to the development of a wide-range of petrochemical products.

Since 1971, we have created thousands of jobs, driven the growth of a diverse knowledge-based economy, and played a key role in Abu Dhabi’s global emergence.

Today, we continue to look for new and innovative ways to maximize the value of our resources, pioneering those approaches and technologies that will ensure we are able to meet the demands of an ever-changing energy market, and continue to have a positive impact on the Abu Dhabi economy for generations to come.