Area Authority Delegate – Wells

About the role

The Wells Area Authority Delegate (AAD) 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 lookahead schedules, and identify permit, HITRA, isolation plan and SIMOPS requirements early.
• Coordinate with stations, Site Controllers, Area Authorities and isolation teams so that permit and isolation preparations are ready before workover rigs or well services arrive, and maintain a readiness tracker.
• Travel between workover rig and well services locations to provide on-the-ground Control of Work support, verify that planned scope matches the permit and HITRA, and coordinate with the Workover Supervisor, Well Services Supervisor and Performing Authority.
• Approve the HITRA, draft isolations and apply the associated ICCs, and help secure timely permit amendments or additional isolations when scope or conditions change.
• Coach Wells and station personnel on work scopes, HITRA quality, isolation interfaces and SIMOPS, check permit status and documentation, record delay trends and propose improvements.
• Support competency verification, field audits and CoW assurance, and intervene and escalate if work exceeds approved controls.

Required profile

• At least five years of hydrocarbon operations and/or Control of Work experience.
• Working knowledge of well intervention, workover and well services, especially slickline, e-line and rig mobilisation interfaces, strongly preferred.
• Previous experience as an Area Authority, Site Controller or CoW practitioner/coach desirable; ability to operate within defined delegated authority.
• Strong communication, coordination, coaching and influencing skills, with the confidence to challenge unsafe or inadequately prepared work.
• Ability to work independently, prioritise competing demands and use WorkSafe and related digital systems; 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 relevant ROO CoW procedures.
• Use of Maximo, ShareCat, SharePoint, GIS and drawing mark-up tools where needed.