Interface and Risk Lead at WTS Energy

WTS Energy provides recruitment and manpower services for the global oil and gas and energy industries. We supply engineers and consultants to our clients' projects and operations, and perform employment outsourcing services such as workforce management in oil and gas regions around the world. WTS Energy operates globally with offices in 14 countries and is operational in over 50 countries.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Interface and Risk Lead

Location: Port Harcourt, Rivers

Job Summary 

• Accountable for the integrated management of technical, organizational, schedule, and stakeholder interface and for the identification, assessment, mitigation, and monitoring of project risks and opportunities across all IMA Packages.
• Ensures that cross-package and external interfaces are proactively managed, risks are transparently escalated and controlled, and that interface and risk-related threats do not compromise safety, schedule, cost, quality, and operability of the IMA Project deliverables.

Key Responsibilities

• Establish and maintain IMA Project Interface Management Plan covering all internal and external interfaces.
• Identify, define, and manage the Interface Battery Limits across the IMA Project packages.
• Develop and maintain a comprehensive Interface Register, ensuring clear ownership, responsibilities, and closure criteria.
• Facilitate regular interface coordination meetings with Package Managers, EPC Contractors, and external stakeholders.
• Ensure timely identification, escalation, resolution, and closure of interface issues impacting safety, schedule, cost, or operability.
• Develop and maintain the IMA Project Risk and Opportunity Management Plan
• Lead the structured risk identification workshops across all packages and project execution phases.
• Maintain the IMA Risk Register, ensuring that risks are clearly defines, quantified as applicable, assigned to accountable owners, and actively mitigated and monitored.
• Identify and promote opportunities to improve project cost, schedule, safety, or operability.
• Provide regular interface and risk status reports to IMA PMT, highlighting trend analysis, emerging risks, and areas requiring management interventions.  

Eductional Requirements

• Qualification: Degree in Engineering, Project Management, or related discipline.
• Professional Experience (number of years): 10 – 15 years in the oil and gas industry
• Experience within project: (number of years): proven experience managing interfaces and risks on multi-package EPC projects

Required Competencies:

•  (degree of mastery: 1: weak – 2: medium – 3: good – 4 : excellent)

Technical:

• Engineering
• Interface and systems thinking
• Construction
• Stakeholder and JV Coordination
• Production
• Risk Identification and mitigation
• Platform installation
• Contracting & contract management
• Hook up
• Project team management
• Safety
• Planning and Control
• Structured communication and facilitation 4 Problem solving.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
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