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Job Description
Assist in selecting and ensuring compliance for the best contracting solution to meet the company’s requirements; considering NIPEX/NCDMB compliance and workflow, overall cost-effectiveness (Total cost basis), long-term operability, reduced OPEX/BBL, and increased deliverability of Oil and Gas.
Responsibilities
- Prepare an adequate tendering and contracting strategy that ensures the best value for company expenditure following the best practices and innovative ideas.
- Ensure Tender Board and shareholders approvals are addressed.
- Prepares contractual and commercial parts of the RFPs/Tenders, in consultation with the Project Managers and Engineering Team.
- Prepares and compiles Tender / Contract Documentation, in consultation with legal and other stakeholders to ensure viability, legality clear interpretation, and ease of administration.
- Supports expertise for Project Specific pre-qualification and processed bid lists
- Supports that procurement activities are performed promptly consistent with the project schedule.
- Participate in the technical and unpriced commercial evaluation of tender and then lead the subsequent prices commercial evaluation of technically acceptable offers that includes professional adjustment factors depending on the nature of the job and tender. Prepares comprehensive techno-commercial evaluation reports and recommendations.
- Process award recommendations, ensure necessary approvals, and finalize with the successful bidder and the contract documentation.
- Validates the development and implementation of all contractor procedures for conformity with the contract. Checks conformity of all documentation including guarantees, performance bonds, insurance, and the like with agreed formats and processes as required.
- Reviews revised terms, variation order requirements, change orders, and claims submitted by contracts, established as Negotiations Strategy and negotiable as part of a constituted team, for their settlement.
- Assists in evaluating contractor’s request for approval of vendors and sub-contractors. Monitors performance of Contractor’s procurement activities in terms of timely delivery and quality.
- Reviews, revised terms and, variation order requests, change orders, and claims submitted by Contractors, establishes a Negotiations Strategy and negotiable, as part of a constituted team, for their settlement.
- Coordinates the final close-out of completed contracts by ensuring proper resolution of all outstanding commercial issues. Provides input and reviews Contractors’ performance evaluation during and post-job
- Alignment and timely approvals of both internal and external stakeholders and approvers. Sr Mgt, partners, and government bodies alike. Where required coordinate the technical input into the Management Committee meetings with regulators and our partners.
- Ensure efficient approval and endorsement workflow: Contribute to the generation, coordination, and delivery of documents to support the approval processes: for commercial agreement, strategies, tender lists, evaluation templates for offshore operations asset maintenance, and asset integrity—including remote sensing and automation technology support. Ensure seamless integration between Community/security, Government and regulatory affairs team, Facility Eng., Wells Engineering, Production Operation, Logistics, and Finance alike.
- Support our Integrated Production Delivery Model, from reservoir drainage points to points of sale. Key focus areas are maximization of the gas and liquids volumes sold, within the technical limits of the reservoirs, and quantity and quality of gas liquids resources.
- Understand what must be done to ensure a world-class database of compliant contracts, evaluations, and strategies that is third-party verifiable. The contract status, scopes of work, cost estimates, concept analysis, evaluations, award decisions, and contract summary document, as updated quarterly.
- He/She has a fully demonstrated understanding of the range of agreement and commercial options and material choices to deliver production from the reservoir to the sales point.
Qualification
- 10+ years’ experience in the Oil and Gas industry as a contracts and procurement process specialist or engineer with NO more than 4 years with Service Company or contractor.
- Excellent technical and communication skills with a strong emphasis on teamwork, change mgt, and influencing
- Fluency in written and spoken English language
- Track record in working in Nigerian or other international locales with heavy governmental engagement required in delivering 3rd party services in alignment with government partners: selection, tendering, and contracting for all E&P support services.
- Demonstrated skill in supplier assessment, selection, scope validation, negotiation support, commercial and solvency evaluation, contractor mgt, and closeout in such locations
- Track record in Offshore oil and gas Field Development Planning and execution in Nigeria: supporting Production, storage, and transport of hydrocarbons as well as support for re-drill, workover, wireline, and well intervention services,
- Track record in Asset Optimization, minimizing lifting costs, OPEX reduction, safety and operational trade-offs, etc.
- Commercial innovator and entrepreneur with, a track record in finding solutions to increasing the BBL recovery per dollar spent in operations. Maximize the utilization of key leased fixed asset capacity. Minimize OPEX / BBL.
Location: Lagos, Nigeria.
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