Risk Management Specialist

Zigma Limited is an independent, indigenous energy company in Nigeria. Zigma’s mission, under its CEO Funmi Ogbue, is to become the first female-led ‘mini-major’ with interests in the upstream, midstream and downstream energy sectors, first in Nigeria and then in Africa more widely. Aligning with Funmi’s passion for improving local communities, Zigma will place Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) policies at the heart of its operations and aims to become a champion for the responsible development of African energy projects–at the same time as delivering significant value to its investors and partners.

Responsibilities

Risk & Mitigation:

• Represent PPM in all coordination activities between Major Projects and other entities: Review of planning & work progress, drilling work program, FOPs work program, other project work program etc.
• Act as focal for alignment of priorities with internal clients (QA, Eng, HSE, C&P, FOPS, Drilling, Tech Log, etc.)
• Interface with other entities on the challenges of prompt execution in the initial phases to support successful outcomes.
• Follow up with projects on developing issues and matters arising from coordination meetings with internal clients
• Propose mitigation means / solutions for interface issues resolution
• Identification of Project related risks with proposals for mitigations, and recovery measures.
• Identification and development of KPIs for project Risks
• Conduct risk assessments and develop contingency plans.
• Support project managers in implementing risk management plans.
• Maintain documentation on risk management processes and outcomes.
• Monitor and report risk exposure and risk burndown trends (qualitative and trend-based).
• Support audits (internal/external), PJC reviews, QA/QC, and methodology improvements.

Performance Management:

• Use Project Definition Rating Index from PR2 to identify the Milestones and LDs into contracts or Items to be instructed via a Scope Change Notice (internal to Company) / Change Order Instruction ( To Contractor).
• Ensure that project performance KPIs / objectives consider potential risks and opportunities.
• Data-driven insights from risk assessments inform performance strategies directly schedule and or costs or less margin.
• Identify how the PPM & project can respond proactively to emerging threats and uncertainties, continuously analyzing lookahead.
• Benefit analysis -balance risk-taking with the achievement of long-term objectives, faster decisions

Provide support and resources for projects:

• Propose support to projects to create/improve their processes and procedures.

Improve and learn from experience:

• Gather and share lesson learned from projects Nigeria regarding project performance including project benchmarks with Onetech and PJC.
• Share regular feedback with local contractors to better work together from one project to another

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering
• Proficiency in use of MS Office Suite, SAP and Primavera P6 (monte-Carlo), Safran.
• Ten (10) years of experience with a sound oil and gas technical background in onshore, offshore and deep offshore activities.
• PMBOK, PMP, Kaizen and/or Lean Management belt would be a plus.

How to Apply

Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV to: engineering@zigmaltd.com using the Job Title as the subject of the mail