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About the Role
The SVP Projects and Assurance is a member of the Technical Services Leadership Team, leading the Projects function globally. This role is responsible for the Company’s project management framework, standards, capability, and independent assurance, providing senior leadership and challenge to Business Units to ensure safe, predictable, and effective capital investment delivery.
Responsibilities
- Provides global functional leadership for Projects, setting direction, standards, and capability.
- Acts as a senior adviser to Business Units on major project execution.
- Leads and coordinates independent project assurance across technical, project, financial, and commercial matters.
- Owns senior-level relationships with key project contractors and vendors.
- Provides senior project expertise in support of major investments, acquisitions, divestments, and external stakeholder engagement.
- Ensures activities are undertaken safely and in accordance with applicable legislation, regulatory requirements, and the Harbour Energy Business Management System.
- Responsible for the Capital Projects Management System, ensuring Project and Assurance standards address Major Accident Hazard and environmental risk while supporting agile delivery.
- Ensures the Gated Delivery Process aligns with the Corporate Major Accident Prevention Policy.
- Champions strong process and personal safety leadership throughout project development, construction, commissioning, and handover.
- Ensures all activities and behaviours are carried out in accordance with Harbour Energy’s Ethics and Compliance Policies and Procedures.
- Provides functional oversight of the major capital project portfolio, supporting capital prioritisation and portfolio optimisation.
- Provides senior advice and independent challenge to Business Units on major project execution.
- Reviews major project performance, risks, and execution readiness.
- Provides functional leadership for project development and Decision Analysis.
- Builds project capability across the Company, including competence, capacity, succession, and best practice sharing.
Requirements
- Senior leadership experience in major oil and gas projects, including development, construction, commissioning, and handover to operations.
- Strong track record in complex project execution, with experience of HSE, cost, schedule, project controls, contracting, and contractor performance.
- Significant experience of project, Gate and Value Assurance and providing independent challenge on major project and investment decisions.
- Strong commercial judgement and experience of major project contracting, procurement, and vendor relationships.
- Strong understanding of Major Accident Hazard risk, process safety, and technical integrity in major project delivery.
- Proven ability to build organisational capability and operate effectively with senior executives, the Board, and external stakeholders in a global environment.
Skills
- Project management framework
- Project standards
- Project capability
- Independent assurance
- Major project execution
- Capital investment delivery
- HSE
- Cost control
- Schedule control
- Project controls
- Contracting
- Contractor performance
- Gate assurance
- Value assurance
- Commercial judgement
- Procurement
- Vendor relationships
- Major Accident Hazard risk management
- Process safety
- Technical integrity
- Organisational capability building
- Decision Analysis
- Risk management
- Environmental risk management
Location
- Global
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior leadership
Education Level
- Degree in Engineering or related technical discipline; Chartered Engineer status or equivalent (Preferred)
- UK and international offshore visitor qualifications and certification, or ability to obtain them (Desired)
About the Company
- Harbour is one of the world’s largest and most geographically diverse independent oil and gas companies, producing between 475,000 and 485,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day with significant production in Norway, the UK, Germany, Argentina, and North Africa.
- Harbour benefits from competitive operating costs and resilient margins, with growth options including near-infrastructure opportunities in Norway, unconventional scalable opportunities in Argentina, and conventional offshore projects in Mexico and Indonesia.
- The company has low GHG emissions intensity and a leading CO2 storage position in Europe, committed to producing oil and gas safely and responsibly.
- Harbour is headquartered in London with approximately 5,000 staff and contractors across its operations and offices.
- Ours is an inclusive workplace where individuals can bring their whole selves to their job and feel recognised for the value they add.
- We are committed to creating a genuinely inclusive and supportive working environment to ensure everyone has a positive experience at work.
- At Harbour Energy, we aim to recruit, retain and promote our people based on their unique skills, regardless of race, gender or background.
Equal Opportunity
- Inclusive recruitment is a vital part of our diversity, equity and inclusion strategy. Whatever your background, if you feel you need an adjustment during our selection process to suit your needs, please let us know, and we will be happy to help.