Lead / Senior Workover Supervisor

1) Job Summary

The Lead / Senior Workover Supervisor is responsible for planning, coordinating, supervising, and safely executing workover operations to restore or enhance well productivity while maintaining well integrity, personnel safety, environmental protection, and operational efficiency. The role provides technical leadership to multidisciplinary teams, contractors, and service providers, ensuring all workover activities comply with approved work programmes, company standards, regulatory requirements, and client expectations.

2) Key Responsibilities

A. Operational Leadership

• Execute approved workover programs safely and efficiently.
• Lead all workover activities from rig-up through rig release.
• Ensure compliance with approved operational procedures.
• Maintain continuous well barrier integrity.
• Optimize workover execution to minimize downtime.
• Monitor work progress against schedule.
• Identify and mitigate operational risks.
• Coordinate multiple service providers.
• Conduct pre-job planning meetings.
• Approve operational sequencing within delegated authority.
• Review operational performance daily.
• Ensure compliance with Management of Change (MOC) requirements.
• Verify completion of all operational checklists.

B. Well Integrity Management

• Maintain primary and secondary well barriers.
• Verify barrier diagrams before each critical activity.
• Supervise pressure testing.
• Monitor annulus pressures.
• Ensure tubing and casing integrity.
• Approve well kill procedures.
• Monitor kill fluid properties.
• Ensure safe handling of hydrocarbons.
• Verify pressure-control equipment readiness.
• Review barrier verification documentation.
• Supervise BOP and lubricator testing.

C. Workover Operations

• Tubing retrieval and installation.
• Packer retrieval and setting.
• Downhole equipment replacement.
• Milling operations.
• Fishing operations.
• Perforating support.
• Sand cleanout.
• Scale removal.
• Acid stimulation support.
• Cement squeeze operations.
• Mechanical repairs.
• Zonal isolation.
• Well recompletion.
• Production optimization activities.
• Pressure-control operations.

D. Safety Leadership

• Lead daily toolbox meetings.
• Conduct pre-job risk assessments.
• Verify Permit to Work compliance.
• Ensure simultaneous operations (SIMOPS) management.
• Conduct safety observations.
• Investigate incidents and near misses.
• Lead emergency response activities.
• Promote safety leadership.
• Ensure compliance with Life Saving Rules.
• Monitor contractor HSE performance.

E. Contractor Management

• Coordinate contractor schedules.
• Evaluate contractor performance.
• Verify contractor competency.
• Review service quality.
• Ensure equipment certification compliance.
• Resolve contractor interface issues.
• Conduct contractor performance reviews.

F. Cost & Operational Efficiency

• Minimize Non-Productive Time (NPT).
• Optimize equipment utilization.
• Monitor rental equipment costs.
• Reduce standby time.
• Improve operational efficiency.
• Monitor material consumption.
• Control logistics costs.
• Ensure budget compliance.

G. Documentation & Reporting

• Prepare Daily Workover Report.
• Prepare Final Well Report.
• Prepare Lessons Learned Report.
• Review contractor reports.
• Prepare incident investigations.
• Prepare cost tracking reports.
• Maintain operational records.
• Ensure regulatory reporting compliance.

3) Authorities

• Suspend or stop unsafe work and operations due to safety or well integrity concerns.
• Approve operational adjustments within delegated authority.
• Approve operational hold points and verify well barrier acceptance before critical activities.
• Accept or reject contractor work based on operational and quality requirements.
• Request additional operational resources and technical support.
• Activate emergency response procedures and escalate operational risks to Management.

4) Qualifications & Requirements

Education:

• Bachelor's Degree in Petroleum Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, or equivalent technical discipline.
• Master's Degree in Engineering or Engineering Management is an added advantage.
• Diploma holders with extensive offshore workover experience may be considered.

Experience:

• Minimum 15 years of experience in Oil & Gas well operations.
• Minimum 10 years of offshore workover experience.
• Minimum 8 years as a Workover Supervisor.
• Experience in live wells, Hydraulic Workover Units (HWU), jack-up workover rigs, production well restoration, and multidisciplinary contractor management is preferred.
• Experience in HPHT wells, intelligent completions, horizontal wells, multi-zone completions, and mature field redevelopment is an advantage.

Languages: Good command of English, both written and spoken.

Technical Knowledge:

• Workover Planning and Well Integrity Management.
• Pressure Control, BOP Systems, Hydraulic Workover, and Completion Equipment.
• Tubing, Fishing, Milling, Cementing, Acidizing, Sand Cleanout, and Production Enhancement Operations.
• Slickline, Electric Line, Coiled Tubing, Nitrogen Operations, and Well Barrier Verification.
• SIMOPS Management, Operational Risk Assessment, and Contractor Management.
• Mandatory certifications including IWCF Level 4, BOSIET/FOET with CA-EBS, H₂S Safety, First Aid & CPR/AED, Offshore Medical Certificate, Permit to Work, Risk Assessment, Incident Investigation, Working at Height, Dropped Object Prevention, and Confined Space Awareness.

5) Preferred Skills and Competencies

Core Skills

• Demonstrates strong operational leadership and sound decision-making in workover operations.
• Effectively manages workover activities while maintaining well integrity, operational efficiency, and safety performance.
• Builds and maintains positive relationships with clients, contractors, and multidisciplinary teams.
• Coaches and develops team members while promoting continuous improvement and operational excellence.
• Applies strong commercial awareness, strategic planning, crisis management, and resource optimisation skills.

5) Behavioural Competencies

• Demonstrates integrity, accountability, professionalism, and safety leadership in all work activities.
• Communicates effectively and collaborates with internal and external stakeholders.
• Adapts well to changing operational environments and performs effectively under pressure.
• Takes initiative, applies sound problem-solving skills, and maintains attention to detail.
• Upholds ethical standards and promotes a strong safety culture throughout all operations.