Program Manager - Topsides & Operations

Specific Responsibilities

Job Summary

Apache Corporation is seeking a highly experienced Decommissioning Program Manager – Topsides and Operations to lead and manage all aspects of topsides decommissioning in our North Sea portfolio. This critical role will oversee the safe, environmentally compliant, and cost-effective planning and execution of topsides infrastructure decommissioning. Key to the role is the operational leadership experience to harness our talented onshore and offshore teams and integrate them to work together in lock-step with our new strategic supply chain partners and lead a major program of topsides preparations for down man and removals. Strategic planning will be key to create campaign synergies and sustainable work program across platform well abandonment, topsides and pipeline make safe, topsides lighthouse mode conversions, and topsides removals decommissioning.

Approvals

The successful candidate will form part of a small Apache portfolio, commercial and contract leadership team and collaborate closely with internal and external stakeholders including Asset operations, strategic contractors, regulatory bodies, and joint venture partners. They will develop the topsides decommissioning portfolio plan, financial provisioning, target setting and create an industry leading topsides decommissioning model together with our supply chain partners.

Key Accountabilities

Accountable for safe, fit-for-purpose planning and execution of our topsides portfolio. This includes accountability for delivering the operations within the allocated ARO and creating industry leading performance together with our strategic supply chain partners.

Key Responsibilities

Operational Leadership: Credibility and experience to work with Apache’s talented onshore and offshore operation teams, to plan, integrate and successfully execute simultaneous topsides and wells decommissioning across multiple large complex assets.

Program Leadership: Develop, lead, and manage topsides decommissioning programs including EDC, preparations for removal and EPRD operations.

Regulatory Compliance: Ensure all activities comply with regulations.

Planning & Execution: Drive optimised portfolio planning, engineering, cost estimation, risk assessment, and scheduling for subsea decommissioning scopes.

Contract Management: Create highly effective relationships and team performance together with our topsides contractors and EPRD suppliers.

Performance Tracking: Implement KPIs and regular reporting mechanisms to track progress, safety, and cost performance.

Interface Management: Coordinate with subsea /well P&A teams to ensure integrated end-to-end decommissioning execution.

Budget & Cost Control: Develop and manage multi-year budgets and cost forecasts for topsides decommissioning projects.

Risk Management: Lead risk identification and mitigation planning across all project phases.

Stakeholder Engagement: Interface with Asset operations, JV partners, regulatory bodies, and stakeholders through the development of our decommissioning programmes.

Qualifications & Experience

The successful candidate will have the following qualifications and experience:

Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering. Master’s degree preferred. Chartered status is advantageous Offshore oil and gas experience, with demonstrable experience in major decommissioning programs Proven experience of successfully leading large-scale decommissioning projects in the North Sea or similar mature offshore basins Demonstrated leadership in managing multi-disciplinary teams and strategic contractors Strong commercial acumen and experience with high value major topsides facilities, operations and EPRD contracts Excellent teamwork, communication and negotiation skills Familiarity with decommissioning cost modelling tools and environmental impact assessments Experience in late-life asset management, well, P&A and topsides removal and recycling

Competencies

The successful candidate will lead by example through successfully demonstrating the following:

Core Competencies Communication: Writes, speaks, and presents information effectively and persuasively across communication setting; Results: Pursues work with energy, drive, and results orientation to positively impact Apache’s business success; Collaboration: Works in partnership with others and encourages different perspectives, while building and maintaining trust; and Culture: Willingness and ability to align one’s behavior with the needs, priorities, and goals of Apache. Leadership Competencies Servant Leadership: Inspires and enables performance excellence through feedback, empathy, development and empowerment; Strategic Mindset: Applies business acumen to see the big picture, understand business issues, and exhibit financial stewardship; Change Leadership: Inspires change by challenging the status quo, generating support, and executing improvement projects to achieve business outcomes; and Leading Effective Teams: Enables performance excellence through effective structure, delegation, and motivation.

Company Overview

Our primary product is energy, and where there is affordable, abundant energy, people are healthier, have access to better education, and are given greater opportunities to elevate their families to higher standards of living.

Nearly 3 billion people — roughly one-third of the global population — live without electricity or without clean cooking facilities. We are committed to providing energy in innovative and more sustainable ways to help raise the standard of living for those living in energy poverty and to meet the ongoing demands of people and economies around the world.

The products we deliver power increasingly cleaner electricity across the globe, fuel tractors and trucks, make fertilizer to keep the world's food supply on the table, and heat our schools, hospitals and businesses.

Our employees bring a wide range of talents and skills to the job every day to tackle complex business challenges. We believe in providing a truly rewarding work environment supported by a benefits platform that ranks among the best in our peer group. Our company offers career development opportunities where employees can grow personally and professionally. We promote employee benefits that cultivate a family-friendly work environment and focus on our employees' overall well-being.

We are committed to being a workplace where all employees are valued and can thrive with a sense of belonging. Our commitment to non-discriminatory, equal employment opportunities benefits our individual employees, our company and our external stakeholders; we are better as an organization when various experiences, ideas, and perspectives are brought to the table.

Apache Corporation is a wholly owned subsidiary of APA Corporation (NASDAQ:APA). Apache has operations in the United States, Egypt's Western Desert and the United Kingdom's North Sea and a sister company with exploration opportunities offshore Suriname. Whether supporting Apache, APA Corporation or one of its subsidiaries, team members are employed by Apache Corporation.

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