Execution Planning Advisor III at Nautilus Nigeria Engineering and Construction Limited

The Maintenance Planning Advisor shall provide expert guidance and strategic direction to elevate maintenance planning across our oil and gas operations. The role is expected to shape a proactive planning framework that aligns with business objectives, driving reliability, minimizing downtime, and ensuring compliance.

Key Responsibilities

• Strategy and Vision: Advise on the development and maintenance of the organization's maintenance planning vision, strategies, principles, and techniques, integrating reliability-centered maintenance (RCM), failure modes and effects analysis (FMEA), and predictive analytics tailored to oil and gas assets.
• Performance Monitoring & Advice: Advise on planning performance through KPIs (e.g., schedule compliance, backlog levels, MTBF/MTTR), identifying trends and recommending data-driven improvements to boost operational efficiency.
• Training and Coaching: Train, coach, and mentor maintenance planners, field supervisors, and technicians.

MAIN FUNCTIONS

• Leads development of execution planning effort including coordination of Front End Execution Planning activities by:
• Ensure audits of Contractors, Suppliers and Project Team (PT) are scheduled and conducted; lead PT audits and participate in Contractor audits as appropriate
• Leveraging cross-functional input via Front End Execution Planning (FEEP) workshops to identify execution issues at key Select and Define Stage milestones
• Defining and implementing specific work programs focused on developing mitigation plans and delineating execution basic elements to confirm feasibility
• Monitors project status/issues and supports project team as required during Execute Stage
• Considered as execution and execution planning Subject Matter Expert

TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Coordinate development of execution planning deliverables including:

• Defining and developing key execution planning deliverables and timing that support the relevant business case during Planning for Development leading to Gate 1
• Concept Select/Gate 2
• Checkpoint 1 and Gate 3 in accordance with agreed milestones
• When assigned the FEEP Coordinator role, design and lead FEEP Phase 1 (pre-Concept Selection Approval) and Phase 2 (post Concept Selection through Checkpoint I) work effort including:
• Set up and facilitate FEEP workshops, including attendance of appropriate personnel
• Coordinate development of, and stewards, work programs in FEEP Charters and integration of execution bases to support Concept Selection, Gate, and Checkpoint deliverables
• Works with functions to identify and resolve issues
• Responsible for quality of work products produced as part of the FEEP process
• Responsible for monitoring and reporting status and progress of the FEEP work effort to stakeholders
• Responsible for obtaining functional and project management agreement on specified project deliverables
• Monitors project status/issues during the Execute stage and supports the project team with execution related activities as required (schedule recovery planning, incentive plans, Cold Eye Reviews, etc.)
• As Subject Matter Expert (SME), advises others in execution and execution planning of projects at various Gate stages including:
• Participation in project reviews and assessments (e.g. PEBRAs (Project Economic and Risk Assessment), IPRs, Concept Selection)
• Overall responsibilities on key work processes (e.g. CCAP (Company Capital Project Management) work process as assigned)
• Mentors new engineers (e.g. transferees, new hires, etc.) assigned to Execution Planning and other experienced hires assigned projects they lead
• Participates in development of work tasks and assignments required for campus hires to meet ECM's

SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS

• MS in Engineering preferred
• Experience in oil and gas industry
• Experience in a variety of project management and execution positions
• Prior experience includes leadership roles in managing capital projects, experience in all phases of project execution, and international assignments.
• Flexibility for international business travel as required