Asset Technology Manager - IT at a Leading Independent Energy Company - WTS Energy

WTS Energy - Our client, a leading independent energy company, is recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Asset Technology Manager - IT

Location: Lagos

Job Summary 

• The Asset technology Manager will identify, shape, and execute high-value digital innovation and transformation opportunities across the company’s assets, leveraging proven practices and ROI-generating use cases.
• The role will drive measurable asset performance improvement through AI-driven optimization, advanced analytics, integrated subsurface/surface data insights, predictive maintenance, event prediction, and production/deferment reduction initiatives.
• This position is accountable for converting innovation into sustained operational outcomes through structured delivery, executive engagement, and change leadership, working closely with Asset leaders.

 Key Responsibilities 
Asset Digital Innovation Strategy & Portfolio:

• Build and maintain a prioritized innovation pipeline aligned to Asset performance goals, ensuring initiatives are value-led, scalable, and operationally adoptable.
• Translate key asset challenges into digital/AI opportunities for production efficiency, deferment elimination, reliability enhancement, and subsurface interpretation acceleration.
• Establish an innovation governance model covering intake, prioritization, stage-gates, value tracking, and scale decisions.

AI-Driven Production & Process Optimization:

• Drive AI/analytics use cases that improve production and reduce operating constraints, including production optimization and operating envelope improvement.
• Enable reservoir surveillance and performance optimization.
• Support well performance diagnostics (gas lift optimization, water cut, sand risk, slugging, ESP performance, injection optimization).
• Drive process optimization for facilities (compression, separation, utilities, energy optimization).
• Lead solution development with internal and external experts from concept through deployment.

Deferment Reduction & Reliability Improvement:

• Establish a data-driven deferment improvement program focused on proactive identification of deferment drivers and recurrence prevention.
• Deliver predictive and prescriptive solutions such as predictive maintenance for rotating/static equipment.
• Implement event prediction (failures, trips, upsets) and mitigation playbooks.
• Advance condition monitoring and reliability analytics to improve uptime.

Subsurface, Wells & Seismic Insight Acceleration:

• Improve subsurface decision quality and speed through AI-assisted seismic interpretation, reservoir modelling improvements, and integrated datasets.
• Automate pattern detection for production anomalies and reservoir behaviour.
• Support better well planning insight using integrated datasets across drilling/completions/production.
• Ensure strong integration between wells, subsurface, production engineering, and facilities teams.

Data Improvement (Surface & Subsurface):

• Lead initiatives to improve asset data quality, usability, and timeliness.
• Drive engineering, wells, and subsurface data standards improvement.
• Improve asset data interoperability across historian platforms.
• Champion fit-for-purpose data foundations enabling advanced analytics and AI at scale.

 Innovation Execution, Scaling & Vendor/Partner Enablement:

• Deliver innovation via use-case definition, business case, MVP delivery, adoption, and scale-up.
• Track value and benefits realization with operational handover.
• Leverage ecosystem partners (OEMs, vendors, benchmarking communities, etc).
• Embed cybersecurity, data privacy, operational resilience, and regulatory compliance by design working with the IT Department.

Cross-Functional Enablement: Security & Logistics:

• Drive digital improvements in key enabling functions that impact asset performance.
• Security: predictive threat analysis, situational awareness, incident prevention, access control optimization.
• Logistics: planning optimization, route scheduling, fleet performance analytics, material availability improvement.
• Align innovations to asset uptime, safety, and cost targets.

 Executive Engagement & Change Leadership:

• Build executive-level engagement with Asset and Corporate leadership.
• Lead stakeholder alignment and change adoption plans to ensure solutions deliver outcomes.
• Communicate performance impact, barriers, and value realization clearly.

 Qualifications of the Representative

• Minimum 10+ years in upstream oil & gas operations, in asset leadership roles with mid-to-senior management exposure.
• Engineering or geoscience degree (Petroleum, Mechanical, Chemical, Electrical, Geology, etc.).
• MBA or relevant leadership qualification (advantage).
• Exposure to IOC/major operator practices and digital transformation frameworks.
• Familiarity with industry tools/platforms (e.g., OSIsoft/PI, SAP PM, Maximo, Petrel, Techlog, AVEVA, etc.) is beneficial.
• Demonstrated experience delivering tangible operational value / ROI through transformation programs.
• Strong knowledge of upstream and/or midstream business processes and constraints.
• Proven ability to lead cross-functional initiatives across technical, operational, and enabling functions.

Required Competencies
Technical & Business:

• Strong understanding of digital oilfield concepts and operational analytics.
• Experience with AI/advanced analytics use cases (predictive maintenance, event prediction, production optimization, reservoir surveillance).
• Strong problem-solving and business case development skills (value and ROI tracking).
• Working knowledge of asset data environments.

 Leadership & Change:

• High executive presence – able to influence and drive decisions at leadership level.
• Strong stakeholder management, delivery leadership, and change enablement skills.
• Ability to translate between business, operations, and technology teams.
• Results-driven mindset with clear accountability for delivery and benefits realization.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified. 

How To Apply
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