Contract type Consultant, estimated duration 12 to 18 months.
Location Luanda, remote work can be accommodated for set periods.
Project Lead – Geoscience & Development
Accountable for building the Company’s internal technical capability to manage, develop and grow the acquired deepwater asset from a subsurface and engineering standpoint. Leads readiness for both near-term and long-term production growth, and ensures the asset’s full technical and subsurface data heritage is captured and integrated into the Company’s systems.
WORKSTREAMS
• Development / Engineering: Defining the G&G and engineering team structure, technical priorities and roadmap to FID readiness.
• Exploration: Building a full technical data inventory (seismic, wells, logs, cores), consolidating historical interpretations, and identifying and closing legacy data gaps.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
• Incremental production readiness: Ensuring the Company has the data, baseline and team needed to define a path forward.
• Technical team: Owning how the Company’s G&G and engineering function is built, resourced and led.
• Subsurface data heritage: Ensuring the completeness of the technical knowledge and data received from the outgoing operator.
• Technical standards: Owning how technical work is governed under the Company’s operatorship.
KEY COMPETENCIES
• Technical authority: Commands the respect of a subsurface team through depth of knowledge.
• Development judgement: Understands what it takes to move a deepwater project from concept to final investment decision, and where the critical risks and decisions sit.
• Team building: Has built or rebuilt a technical function before, and knows what it takes to operate at the standard a deepwater operator requires.
• Project management: Able to plan and sequence a technical readiness programme against FID and Day 1 milestones.
EXPERIENCE & REQUIREMENTS
• Experience: Minimum 15 years in subsurface, reservoir engineering or upstream development within Oil & Gas.
• PMI track record: Experience in technical integration during M&A, carve-outs or asset acquisitions is valued but not required; deep technical seniority in the subsurface domain, combined with knowledge of West African deepwater assets, carries equal weight.
• Alternative benchmark: Where PMI integration experience is absent, candidates should demonstrate seniority as a Chief Geoscientist, Lead Reservoir Engineer or equivalent, with a record of leading technical teams through major capital development decisions in deepwater settings.
• Technical depth: Strong credentials across G&G (geoscience, geophysics, petrophysics) and development engineering in deepwater settings; knowledge of Angolan or analogous West African deepwater assets is a differentiator.
• Language: Fluent English is mandatory; Portuguese is an advantage.
• Working style: Able to work autonomously on a full-time basis, with in-country travel for key technical and investment milestones.
Improving Lives and Organizations
We cover a wide range of competencies to help you get the job done. At the heart of our business lies workforce management, where we handle and subcontract workforces to the most challenging work environments, like graphite and coal mines to Oil Rigs and Ships and Vessels.
We also build on the potential of our workers, to give you highly certified and prepared artisans in the most various trades. For this, we have two Training Centres in Pemba and Maputo in Mozambique fully equipped to prepare artisans in Welding, Electrical, Electronics, Rigging, Boiler making, Mechanical and Scaffolding Trades; and one Training Centre in Palma for Hospitality Training.
We provide our clients with systematic reporting, productivity analysis, labour negotiations, query resolution, employee benefits, tax reports and financial reporting. We can still offer legal Counselling, bureaucratic management and handle every detail regarding your HR and admin requirements. In terms of logistics related to your workforce such as flights, land travel, hotels, catering or anything your staff may need, we can provide.
We do full sourcing of expat workforces and visa management, as well as headhunting or bulk recruitment. We can also simply run your payroll and provide you detailed payslips, bank transfer files, productivity reports and reporting on tax payments.
