Area Authority Delegate - Wells

About the role

The Area Authority Delegate (AAD) for Wells is a mobile Control of Work focal point for workover rigs and well services activities. The role focuses on forward planning and work readiness, linking Wells schedules with station permit and isolation preparation to reduce avoidable non-productive time while ensuring compliant execution and responsive support for emergent work. It is a roving Wells-facing role, not a routine degassing-station operations position.

Key responsibilities

• Engage regularly with Workover and Well Services Superintendents and Coordinators to review upcoming jobs, rig movements and rolling lookahead schedules.
• Identify Control of Work requirements early (permits, HITRAs, isolation plans, certificates, SIMOPS interfaces, site access) and coordinate with stations, Site Controllers and isolation teams so preparations are ready before arrival.
• Maintain a readiness tracker, follow up gaps, escalate blockers and flag likely non-productive time exposure.
• Travel between workover rig and well services locations to provide on-the-ground CoW support.
• Before work starts, verify that the planned scope matches the permit and HITRA, and coordinate on location with the Workover Supervisor, Well Services Supervisor, Performing Authority and station team.
• Approve the HITRA, draft isolations and apply the associated ICCs, and help secure timely permit amendments or additional isolations.
• Coach Wells and station personnel on work scopes, HITRA quality, isolation interfaces and SIMOPS, check permit status and document lessons learned.

Required profile

• At least five years of hydrocarbon operations and/or Control of Work experience.
• Working knowledge of well intervention, workover and well services activities, especially slickline, e-line and rig mobilisation interfaces, strongly preferred.
• Previous experience as an Area Authority, Site Controller or CoW practitioner/coach is desirable.
• Relevant HSE/technical qualification or equivalent applicable experience.
• Arabic and English communication skills appropriate for the position.

Required skills

• Practical knowledge of PTW, HITRA, energy isolation and SIMOPS.
• Competent use of WorkSafe and ROO CoW procedures.
• Ability to use Maximo, ShareCat, SharePoint, GIS and drawing mark-up tools where needed.
• Strong communication, coordination, coaching and influencing skills, with the confidence to challenge unsafe or inadequately prepared work.