Production and Water Superintendent

Petrofac is a leading international service provider to the energy industry, with a diverse client portfolio including many of the world’s leading energy companies.

We design, build, manage and maintain infrastructure for our clients. We recruit, reward, and develop our people based on merit regardless of race, nationality, religion, gender, age, sexual orientation, marital status or disability. We value our people and treat everyone who works for or with Petrofac fairly and without discrimination.

The world is re-thinking its energy supply and energy security needs; planning for a phased transition to alternative energy sources. We are here to help our clients meet these evolving energy needs.
This is an exciting time to join us on this journey.   

We support flexible working requests and have adopted a hybrid approach for most of our office-based roles. We ask employees to be present in the office at least three days per week.

Are you ready to bring the right energy to Petrofac and help us deliver a better future for everyone? 

JOB TITLE: PRODUCTION AND WATER SUPERINTENDENT

This post is based in Abu Dhabi.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Reporting to the Lead of Production Operations, the Production and Water Superintendent provide overall oversight and leadership for production and water operations across client assets.
• This role is responsible for managing and supporting Water & Production Operations Supervisors, ensuring safe, reliable, and efficient delivery of production and water transfer activities.
• The Superintendent acts as the central coordination point between the field and office, driving alignment with business objectives, corporate HSE standards, and cost targets.
• Provide leadership, direction, and performance management to Production & Water Operations
• Supervisors, ensuring consistency in execution and adherence to company policies.
• Translate production and water management strategies into actionable field plans and monitor their execution against KPIs.
• Oversee daily production reporting, water handling performance, and operational data, ensuring
• accuracy, reliability, and timely submission to the Production Operations Lead.
• Coordinate and align operational activities with cross-functional stakeholders (Drilling, Completions, Facilities, HSSE, Reservoir/Development) to ensure cohesive execution.
• Review and validate operational reports, identify risks, and implement improvement initiatives to
• optimize production and water management.
• Act as the key office-based escalation point for field supervisors.
• Support the preparation and management of budgets, forecasts, and operational planning
• documents, ensuring alignment with corporate objectives.
• Drive a strong safety culture, ensuring the client’s HSE standards and community engagement
• practices are consistently upheld.

ESSENTIAL QUALIFICATIONS AND SKILLS:

• Contractor performance and compliance across multiple service providers, maintaining accountability on cost, safety, and delivery.

• Strong safety culture, ensuring the client’s HSE standards and community engagement p

  ractices are consistently upheld.

• Ensuring complex issues are resolved effectively with minimal impact on operations.