The posting
NES Fircroft is currently recruiting an Operations Readiness Lead to support offshore Oil & Gas engineering projects.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead Operational Readiness (OR) activities across project execution phases, ensuring successful preparation for commissioning, start-up, and operations.
- Develop and implement production readiness strategies, execution plans, commissioning and start-up philosophies, and operational transition plans.
- Define resource requirements, operational prerequisites, risk mitigation measures, and production ramp-up/ramp-down strategies.
- Prepare and manage operational readiness and CSU deliverables, ensuring compliance with client requirements and project contractual obligations.
- Coordinate with multidisciplinary engineering, commissioning, construction, and operations teams to ensure readiness milestones are achieved.
- Monitor and report progress of production readiness activities through regular project meetings and management reviews.
- Act as the key interface between project teams, clients, and operational stakeholders on matters relating to operational readiness and commissioning.
- Facilitate workshops, technical reviews, risk assessments, and readiness reviews to support project objectives.
- Provide technical guidance and mentoring to project teams involved in operational readiness, commissioning, and start-up activities.
- Support site-based commissioning and start-up activities, ensuring safe execution and effective transition to operations.
- Identify operational and commissioning risks and implement mitigation measures to ensure project readiness and start-up success.
Requirements
Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Petroleum Engineering, Materials Engineering, or a related engineering discipline.
Experience
- Minimum 10 years of experience in operational readiness, commissioning, start-up, or production operations within the oil and gas industry.
- Proven experience supporting major upstream, offshore, LNG, refinery, petrochemical, or energy infrastructure projects.
- Strong understanding of commissioning and start-up methodologies, operational transition planning, and production readiness processes.
- Experience working on international projects, preferably within large EPC/EPCI project environments.
- Demonstrated experience preparing commissioning, start-up, and operational readiness documentation and deliverables.
Desired Skills & Competencies
- Strong knowledge of commissioning, start-up, risk assessment, and operational readiness best practices.
- Experience developing and implementing CSU plans, readiness assessments, and operational procedures.
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to engage effectively across project teams, clients, and operations personnel.
- Strong facilitation skills for technical workshops, reviews, and multidisciplinary meetings.
- Proven ability to manage technical issues through to close-out and deliver results within schedule commitments.
- Fluent spoken and written English.
Why Join Us?
- Be part of major international energy and offshore developments.
- Work with multidisciplinary teams on complex and technically challenging projects.
- Opportunity to influence the successful transition of world-class projects from construction to operations.
- Dynamic and collaborative project environment with strong professional development opportunities.
We regret that only shortlisted candidates will be notified.



