Latest Jobs in an Onshore-Offshore Energy Company (Subsea 7)
Subsea 7 is a world-leading seabed-to-surface engineering, construction and services contractor to the offshore energy industry. We provide cost-effective technical solutions to enable the delivery of complex projects in all water depths and challenging environments.
We are recruiting to fill the positions below:
Job Title: Senior Accountant
Vacancy ref: 57091
Location: Lagos
Business area: Surf and Conventional
Working hours: 40 hours per week
Contract type: Staff
Languages in which you may apply: English
Job Description
- The Senior Accountant reports to the Accounting Manager.
- He/she is vested with the responsibility to assist the Manager/Department in the discharge of his day to day tasks.
- This role shall be executed within the utmost respect of Company’s procedures, Code of Business Conduct and Core Values.
- All personnel are expected to contribute to creating a positive HSEQ culture within Subsea 7 and ensure familiarity with and adherence to local HSEQ codes and practices.
Specific Key Responsibilities & Activities
Treasury:
- Liaises with banks on all operational banking matters
- Maintain records of cash and bank transactions and verifies such records are maintained in an accurate and timely manner
- Check monthly bank reconciliations and investigates reconciling items
- Day to day control over the company cheque books, cash balances and banking requirements
- Ensures all payments are properly approved and supported by appropriate documentary evidence.
Accounting:
- Assists with the maintenance of accounting records in compliance with local and group regulations in an efficient and effective manner
- Preparation of Annual Statutory Accounts and any required supporting analysis
- Liaise with and providing information to the Group auditors
- Ensure that all transactions are recorded and reported in accordance with statutory and local legal requirements
- Ensure operational day to day as well as long term filing of accounts
- Liaise with internal and external auditors with regards to accounting issues and internal control over Financial Reporting
Reporting:
- Organise, run and monitor the closing process monthly, quarterly and annually, including the collating of any required accounts
- Manage the regular reporting and management information requirements of the designated area of responsibility
- Preparation of monthly variance analysis and explanations of variances between actual results to budget to date and to full year forecasts
- Produce analyses of various performance indicators required by internal management and shareholders
- Provides input to budget and accountable for controlling costs.
Taxation:
- Liaise with Relevant Tax Authorities on day to day operations,
- Ensure consistent compliance with local tax filing requirements
- Prepare the documentation needed during various monitoring exercise.
Authority/Dimensions:
- Operate within the Code of Conduct
- Operate according to Subsea 7’s Management Principles
- Support standards and procedures for the Finance Function.
Key Relationships/ Stakeholders
External:
- Banks
- Auditors/Consultants.
Internal:
- Project Team (Cost Control, contract…)
- Treasury Team
- General Accounts
Person Specification
- A University Graduate (BSc) or HND Graduate in Accounting/Finance with a minimum of 10 years’ cognate experience
- Chartered Accountant with proven management experience
- Highly motivated and ability to work under pressure
- Excellent written & oral communication skills; fluency in English.
- Pro-active and positive to changes and challenges.
- People Management skills.
Job Title: Senior Tendering Engineer
Vacancy ref: 57103
Location: Lagos
Business area: Surf and Conventional
Working hours: 40 hours per week
Contract type: Staff
Job Summary
- Reporting to the Tendering Manager, the Senior Tendering Engineer shall be responsible for the overall coordination of the multidisciplinary effort needed to establish Nigerstar 7's proposals from the pre-qualification phase up to the negotiation phase prior award.
- The position of Tender Engineer will depend from the Sales and Marketing Department within the Africa region tenders for a broad variety of projects from small service contracts to EPCI contracts in the SURF and Conventional markets.
- Depending of the magnitude and complexity of the tender, the Tender Engineer may be autonomously responsible for the proposal or may second a Project Manager/ Director in the role of Commercial Lead.
Key Responsibilities
- Determine the execution plan with the Tender Manager and the actions to be undertaken to achieve the goals of the commercial proposal.
- Define deliverables to be issued by all departments involved in Tender and ensure interfaces (Tendering, Engineering, SCM, Logistic, Operation, Fiscal, Legal and Commercial).
- Propose cost optimisations by modifying execution plan and commercial strategy.
- Ensure adherence to Nigerstar7’s tendering procedures on tenders
- Maintain thorough records throughout the bidding process to ensure traceability and ultimately efficient handover to project teams.
- Prepare internal documents for the endorsement of submissions by Senior Management in particular Nigerstar7’s PSB, DTT, ATT, ATC.
Interfaces:
- Tender Project Manager,
- All departments involved in the tender process,
- Partners and clients during negotiation phase.
Requirements
- The Position is open to various profiles working for a minimum of 10 years in the oil and gas sector and with various professional backgrounds.
- A significant technical experience in Engineering or Operation Departments associated with a first exposure to commercial challenges (Contract/ SCM/ Tendering) would be appreciated.
The successful candidate shall have/be:
- Ability to organize and coordinate team work as well as to promote collaboration within the team.
- Excellent communication skills in English (verbal & written).
- A sedulous worker able to deliver under time pressure.
- Willingness to discover the multi-pronged dimension (technology, execution, legal & contract, finance, commercial) of our projects
- Rigorous to ensure adherence to the Tendering procedures.
- Committed to the highest level of confidentiality and staunchness.
- Ability to take an overall view and critical mind.
- Able to work under pressure and be able to meet tight deadlines;
- Rigorous and thorough, to ensure adherence to the tendering procedures;
- Organizational skills with ability to coordinate team work;
- Strong communication and negotiation skills
- committed to the highest levels of confidentiality and dedication;
- Experience in sub-sea construction ( shallow and deep)
- Experience in projects, in particular Logistic Supports, Mobilizations, Field Engineering and Fabrication.
Job Title: Senior Planner
Vacancy ref: 57090
Location: Lagos
Contract type: Staff
Languages in which you may apply: English
Job Description
- The role is responsible for implementing, maintaining and follow-up of all project planning activities within a project including interface with other Project Controls roles.
- All personnel are expected to contribute to creating a positive HSEQ culture within Nigerstar 7 and ensure familiarity with and adherence to local HSEQ codes and practices.
Specific Key Responsibilities & Activities
- Establish, maintain and follow up plans/networks and resources for new and established projects in accordance with Nigerstar 7 Planning procedures.
- Development and maintenance of the Baseline schedule for Client's approval including agreed S-curves and reporting formats
- Development of project specific procedures including Work Breakdown Structure and progress measurement methods in accordance with Client's requirements.
- Prepare reports as requested; progress, critical paths, deviations, forecast
- Prepare schedules as requested; detailed schedules, what-if simulations.
- Assure that any changes related to the scope of the contract get implemented into relevant plans.
- Implementation of sub-contractors plans into main schedule/plan including establishing reporting routines for sub-contractors and follow up of progress.
- Participate, assuring good communication and follow up internal and external activities in the project. Reporting consequences/changes related to planned progress according to agreed reporting frequency.
- Actively work together with other Project Controls disciplines to ensure quality in deliverablesSupport Engineering, Operations and Tendering department in the preparation of plans / schedules associated with Bids / Tenders.
Authority/Dimensions:
- Operate within the Code of Conduct
- Operate according to Nigerstar 7’s Management Principles.
Key Relationships/ Stakeholders:
External:
Internal:
Person Specification
- Degree qualified in areas such as Quantity Surveying, Business Management, Law and Engineering
- Affiliation/member with nationally recognized professional body; if applicable
- Degree/Qualification in related course or other equivalent experience, plus minimum of 10+ years relevant working experience in Oil & Gas (Construction, Engineering, Offshore sectors etc.)
- Proficiency in use of Planning and Reporting tools such as Primavera, Microsoft Project, e.t.c.
- Basic knowledge of Engineering, Procurement, Fabrication, and Offshore Installation processes in the Oil and Gas Sector with previous offshore experience.
- Pro-active and positive to changes and challenges
- Pro-active and open in communication with all interfacing parties.
- Demonstrate a good level of initiative
- Team oriented and performance driven
- Availability to work offshore on rotations (if/when required).
Job Title: Senior Project Manager
Vacancy ref: 57560
Location: Lagos
Business Area: Surf and Conventional
Working hours: 40 hours per week
Contract type: Staff
Description of Function
- Overall responsibility within the Project rests with the Senior Project Manager who has the authority to act and commit on the behalf of NigerStar 7 Management, being the main point of contact with Company.
- The Senior Project Manager is to ensure that the Contract is executed in accordance with NigerStar 7 / Subsea 7 procedures and Contract requirements, meeting targets set in terms of HSES and Quality, while achieving schedule constraints and financial objectives.
Key Responsibilities
- Establish with Company and within Project Team, Project vision, goals and success criteria and implement these.
- Establish a Project Execution Plan for completion of the Project demonstrating excellence thoughout.
- Put forward a clear understanding of HSES throughout the Project and be seen as positively influencing Safety culture and measures in all Project phases, encouraging and supporting initiatives.
- Ensure the implementation of an effective Risks and Opportunities Management system.
- Establish the Project organisation and secure sufficient and qualified resources throughout the duration of the Project.
- Manage and contribute to the development of the human resources assigned to the project and ensure their yearly appraisal in liaison with the functional departments.
- Ensure clear lines of responsibility, clear split of scope of work, clear communication channels and decision making processes throughout the Project Organisation.
- Develop “team spirit” throughout the Project for maximum understanding and ownership of Project goals at all levels to enhance Project performance.
- Establish a positive working relationship with Company.
- Ensure that a complete package of tender documentation is available at or immediately after Contract Award to achieve effective handover of the tender.
- Ensure at the beginning of the Contract that the detailed budget against which the Contract performance will be measured is prepared, split by Functions and Work Packages, as applicable.
- Provide regular feed back of “lessons learnt”.
- Ensure that NigerStar 7 systems and tools are in place to allow real-time monitoring of project parameters and performance indicators.
- Identify and manage Contract changes and notify Company in a timely manner, of their impact on costs, work schedule and Contract obligations.
- Ensure monitoring, co-ordination and management of the work being performed by all Function Managers, Work Package Managers, Subcontractors and Vendors involved in the Contract.
- Ensure that all internal and external interfaces are identified and closed out in a timely manner.
- Ensure that the Project financial results are within target or above and initiate any corrective action that may be required for this purpose.
- Accurate and timely reporting of Project status to Company and to NigerStar 7 management.
- Ensure proper closing out of the Contract, both with Company and Subcontractors.
- Prepare a Contract Completion Report highlighting deviations from schedule and budget with reasons and explanations.
Authority/ Dimensions
The Senior Project Manager reports to NigerStar 7 P&O Director and to Subsea 7 Africa P&O Director.
Reporting to this position are:
- Project HSES Manager,
- Project Quality Manager,
- Project Controls Manager,
- Project Engineering Manager,
- Project Supply Chain Manager,
- Project Operations Manager,
- Project Work Package Managers,
- Project Interface Manager,
- Project Assistant
Interfaces
The Senior Project Manager will regularly interface with the following:
External:
- COMPANY representative and its Contractors
- Main NigerStar 7 Subcontractors and suppliers
Internal:
- NigerStar 7 partners
- Sale and Marketing Department
- Finance Department
- Legal Department
- Human resources Department
- Gabon, Nigeria, Angola offices and Yards
- Others Regions.
Requirements
- Engineering Degree associated with Mechanical, Civil, Offshore or Marine disciplines.
- 15 years’ Experience in Project Management
- Experience is West Africa is a plus
- Experience in pipelay
- Understanding of Subsea 7 installation environment and the needs of the various disciplines supporting the project
- Fluent in English Language
- Competent in Microsoft Office and Lotus notes applications
Work Conditions:
The Project Manager will be expected to carry out the work under the following conditions:
- Position based in Nigeria, full time.
- Standard working hours but occasionally will be expected to work extended hours to meet critical deadlines
- It is not expected that the Senior Project Manager will have to work offshore
- It is expected that the Senior Project Manager will have to visit fabrication yards, Construction vessels, and main Subcontractors during the course of the Project
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply
Application Deadline 31st January, 2018.