Senior Construction Manager

Through its merger with Oil Search, Santos has acquired and assumed operatorship over a world-class portfolio of oil leases on the Alaskan North Slope, USA.

Our focus in Alaska is advancement of our Pikka Phase 1 project, which includes a single drill site, an oil processing facility, and other infrastructure to support production of 80,000 barrels of oil per day.

Pikka has been identified as being among the top quartile of oil and gas development projects for greenhouse gas emissions performance. Pikka is poised to play an important role in the energy transition and is aligned with our company goal of managing climate change risk.

The Pikka Unit is one of the largest conventional oil discoveries made in the United States in the last 30 years, and the Pikka Phase 1 Project is the most significant development on Alaska's North Slope in more than 20 years.

The permitted Pikka development project includes two additional drill sites. The Alaska assets also include discoveries made from both the Mitquq and Stirrup exploration wells drilled in 2020. These opportunities combine to offer a clear path to long-term growth in Alaska.

Position Purpose

The Senior Construction Manager is based in the Anchorage office and will report to the Project Director. They will lead remaining fabrication and construction activities for Phase I and prepare for Phase II of the Pikka Project. This includes contract planning through award, execution and handover to commissioning / production operations.

The Senior Construction Manager is the overall construction team manager for the fabrication and construction scope. This includes working closely with quality, HSSE, materials, logistics, document control, project controls, preservation, site administration, subordinates and all construction contractors as required.

The Senior Construction Manager is further accountable for meeting the Alaska Business Unit's safety, environmental, quality, cost and schedule objectives.

Key Accountabilities

Execute construction campaigns

• Plan and monitor all construction and fabrication activities against established safety, schedule and cost performance metrics. Ensure compliance of work to project specifications.
• Lead all fabrication and construction activities. Ensure construction is fully integrated with commissioning needs requirements for Phase I.
• Provide support to the commissioning activities, including handover to operations.
• Lead site managers and superintendents.
• Ensure the appropriate equipment, labour and other resources are available to execute the scope while ensuring any excess is avoided to actively manage within the budget.
• Oversee and supervise all assigned construction resources to ensure key project milestones are achieved and all company execution standards are met for scope, cost, quality, and HSE.
• Monitor Contractor performance of work and address concerns early via field leadership team.
• Monitor health of interfaces between field construction contractors and intervene as required.
• Lead the construction readiness process for Phase I river lift activities, facilitate Company and Contractor planning meetings, ensure Company and Contractor deliverables are reviewed and approved by the accountable function.
• Ensure implementation of the agreed upon execution strategy with respect to key priorities and milestones.

Develop construction execution plan for Phase II based on project schedule.

• Support engineering planning by providing fabrication and construction need dates for all work package scopes of work as defined in the overall Work Breakdown Structure.
• Develop Company deliverables required in the Construction Readiness process.
• Lead the overall effort of the site teams to review and approve all contractors' execution plans.
• Lead constructability process and provide feedback to planners
• Lead construction support strategies and processes. Assist in the definition and development of the best contract strategy and identification of qualified vendors to support the different fabrication and construction packages. Actively participate in pre-qualification process of fabrication yards.
• Ensure completion of construction permits and stipulations, engineering drawings, identify execution constraints, hazards, and finalize the field construction plan for each year's work scope.
• Ensure a comprehensive site communications plan is developed and implemented for all Company and non-Company stakeholders.
• Actively promote Company knowledge sharing; apply best practices, synergies, integration across disciplines and teams.
• Conduct lessons learned exercise to fully incorporate Phase I learnings into Phase II.

Additional

• Lead integration activities between the construction team, engineering team, project services, HSES, and other functions to ensure alignment and avoid silos.
• Drive efficiency and implement KPIs to track Completions team performance

Qualifications

• 20 years field experience preferred in a major cold weather project in a senior supervisory or management role (Professional qualification in construction a bonus).

Experience

• Previous North Slope, Arctic or similar cold weather climate experience essential.
• Knowledge of and familiarity with Alaskan contractor community a preference.
• 10+ years of major oil / gas construction and fabrication project experience in senior leadership roles.
• Advanced level multi-tasking skills with ability to manage multiple ongoing activities
  • Ability to work collaboratively with other disciplines and across organizational boundaries
  • Listens actively and invites dialogue for shared understanding, then influences and acts to drive performance and achieve results
  • Builds strong relationships based on trust and seeks collaboration across organizational boundaries to achieve goals
  • Drives thoughtful and pragmatic change, encourages innovative thinking and continuous improvement, and models adaptability through resourcefulness, flexibility, and positivity
• Willing and able to travel frequently (up to 30% of the time), typically within US. Occasional international travel may be required.

Skills/Technical Competencies

• Demonstrable experience of improving operational efficiency whilst maintaining an absolute focus on HSEA strong engineering/technical foundation with a strong understanding of drilling and completions of conventional and unconventional wells.
• Demonstrable of applying technically innovative solutions to complex completions challenges.
• Exceptional leadership and stakeholder engagement skills with a proven track-record of delivering strong results through people.
• Ability to manage strategy implementation while ensuring quality control and attention to HSE.
• Exceptional productivity skills. Can be relied on to get the job done accurately and on time.
• Must have a strong work ethic, and a reputation for the highest degree of integrity and mature business judgment.
• Long-term vision with patience to attain high performance level with a continuous improvement outlook.