Main Duties and Responsibilities:

• Review well data, completion configuration, production targets, fluid properties, pressure and temperature data, deviation profile, and known wellbore challenges before approving the ESP application.
  
• Check and validate ESP sizing, equipment selection, operating envelope, setting depth, cable selection, motor loading, gas-handling requirements, materials compatibility, and surface power requirements.
  
• Confirm that the proposed ESP string and associated equipment are fit for the well, compatible with available completion equipment, and suitable for installation and retrieval constraints.
  
• Use recognised ESP design and modelling software, including PETEX/PROSPER, Autograph, SubPUMP or equivalent tools, and challenge vendor models where assumptions or data quality are unclear.
  
• Identify technical risks, data gaps and wellbore constraints, and ensure suitable mitigations are included in the programme and risk assessment.
• Review installation programmes, procedures, equipment readiness, lifting plans, checklists and contingency plans before mobilisation and execution.
  
• Verify contractor personnel are trained, competent and authorised for their assigned roles. Stop or escalate the work when competence, equipment condition or procedural compliance is not acceptable.
  
• Provide site oversight during ESP preparation, installation, testing and commissioning, ensuring compliance with company standards, approved procedures and manufacturer requirements.
• Witness and verify critical assembly, electrical, pressure, rotation, cable, downhole gauge, and surface-system tests, and ensure results are properly recorded.
  
• Confirm installation records, tally, equipment serial numbers, test certificates, commissioning parameters, and handover documents are complete and accurate.
• Work closely with Production and WRM teams to review ESP performance, production behaviour and optimisation opportunities.
  
• Support VSD, transformer, switchgear, soft starter, downhole gauge, communications and other ESP surface-equipment troubleshooting.
  
• Review operating parameters, alarms, trips, trends and well performance to identify the likely cause of underperformance or failure and recommend safe corrective actions.
  
• Validate optimisation and restart recommendations, considering the approved operating envelope, well integrity, reservoir behaviour and equipment limitations.
  
• Follow up actions after optimisation, restart, or troubleshooting and confirm that well performance remains stable.
• Monitor ESP performance and run life, maintaining accurate historical records for wells, equipment, failures and corrective actions.
  
• Lead or support preliminary ESP failure assessments, failure reviews, wash-up meetings and root-cause investigations.
  
• Connect design, installation and operating feedback so lessons learned are included in future designs, procedures and contractor expectations.
  
• Identify and implement practical improvements, new technologies and standardisation opportunities that can improve reliability and reduce avoidable failures.
• Provide technical oversight of ESP inventory, spares, repair status, preservation, certification, obsolescence and equipment readiness.
  
• Confirm that available equipment and spares match forecast well requirements and identify shortages early.
  
• Provide technical input to procurement scopes, specifications, bid evaluations, call-offs, service quality reviews and factory acceptance tests.
  
• Manage contractor technical performance, including equipment quality, personnel competence, reporting, responsiveness and close-out of agreed actions.
  
• Maintain controlled ESP records, design files, installation reports, commissioning data, VSD parameter records, dashboards and technical trackers.
• Demonstrate visible HSE leadership and ensure risks are identified, assessed and controlled before and during ESP activities.
  
• Maintain clear communication between Well Services, Production, WRM, field operations and contractors, with defined actions and accountable owners.
  
• Mentor engineers and technicians through coaching, field exposure, design reviews, troubleshooting sessions, and structured knowledge sharing.
  
• Support development of common ESP standards, workflows, and lessons-learned material across the combined ESP team.
• Provide technical acceptance or rejection of ESP designs, equipment readiness and installation quality within delegated authority.
  
• Recommend stopping work when there is an unacceptable HSE, competence, equipment, design or procedural risk.
• Escalate unresolved design, integrity, operational, contractor, or commercial risks to the responsible manager and stakeholders.

Desired Candidate Profile

• Bachelor s degree in Petroleum, Mechanical, Electrical, or a related engineering discipline, or an equivalent recognised technical qualification supported by extensive relevant experience.
  
• Minimum 25 years of oil and gas industry experience, including substantial hands-on ESP design, installation, commissioning, optimisation, and troubleshooting experience.
  
• Demonstrated experience with VSDs and ESP surface electrical equipment, as well as downhole ESP components and gauges.
  
• Experience with multiple ESP systems and service providers, such as Baker Hughes, SLB, Novomet, or equivalent, and other artificial lifting systems and technologies in challenging reservoirs PCP, Jet pumps, etc.
  
• Competence in ESP design and modelling software such as PETEX/PROSPER, Autograph, SubPUMP or equivalent.
  
• Strong understanding of completions, well integrity, wellbore geometry, production operations and the operational challenges that can affect ESP selection and performance.
  
• Working knowledge of failure investigation, root-cause analysis, equipment quality assurance, FATs and field-service quality control.
  
• Fluent written and spoken English, with strong technical reporting, presentation, and multidisciplinary communication skills.
  
• Competence in Microsoft Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.
  
• Experienced in flow assurance challenges and how it affects ESP performance
  
• Modeling ESP wells, both existing and new designs
  
• Should have a reservoir engineering understanding
  
• Should understand SS and surface parameters, along with changes to ESP parameters
• Strong technical judgement and the confidence to challenge unsafe or unsuitable recommendations.
  
• Practical troubleshooting and data-analysis capability.
  
• Ability to make clear decisions under operational pressure and communicate the technical basis for those decisions.
  
• Collaborative approach across Well Services, Production, WRM and contractor teams.
  
• High standards of safety, integrity, documentation and attention to detail.
  
• Ability to coach, transfer knowledge and develop less-experienced team members.
  
• Commercial awareness and focus on reliable, cost-effective solutions.
• Quality and timeliness of ESP design reviews, installation assurance and technical recommendations.
  
• Compliance with approved procedures, technical standards and HSE requirements.
  
• ESP reliability, run-life improvement and reduction of repeat or avoidable failures.
  
• Completeness and accuracy of technical records, equipment status and failure-learning actions.
  
• Contractor competence, equipment readiness and closure of performance gaps.
  
• Quality of collaboration, knowledge transfer and cross-coverage between Well Services and Production.