What to know About Shell Petroleum Development Company 

In Nigeria, the petroleum sector is led and pioneered by Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC). We make significant investments in our staff members, as evidenced by our sector-leading development program and our dedication to seeing our workers’ ideas though to completion.  

We are hiring to fill the positions listed below: 

1.Team Lead Plan 

Job Location: Lagos 

Work Type: Full-time employment 

– Shell’s project execution engine, Projects & Engineering (P&E), manages new projects for our business partners in the Upstream, Downstream, Integrated Gas, and New Energies sectors in a safe and effective manner. Additionally, P&E offers unique engineering support to current assets at Shell and unoperated businesses. “Creating World Class Assets” is the P&E goal statement, which aims to provide best-in-class initiatives and allow our current assets to reach their maximum potential.  

– At P&E, we think that having a diverse and inclusive workplace is critical to our success going forward. We invite you to apply for the position if you think your experience, abilities, competencies, or unique viewpoint can make a difference, as our selection criteria are centered on finding the finest candidates for the position. We provide fair and impartial resources, enabling everyone to all. 

– The Project Services Manager of Deepwater Projects (DWP) is the person to whom this role reports directly.  

– Producing and sustaining standardized, consistent, and realistic project plans that represent the evaluated risk factors for Nigerian Offshore projects is the responsibility of this function. Lead the planning team and take responsibility for completing the tasks and objectives associated with the scheduling and planning process. Establish targeted objectives to complete competitive “Best in Class” projects. 

Role Objectives 

As a team leader, you are expected to: 

– Provide and uphold unified, practical, and consistent plans and control frameworks for material, brownfield, flagship, and decommissioning projects. Create a list of the plans needed to complete the project, along with a hierarchy showing their order. To create the baseline and maintain it thereafter, drive, manage, and guarantee the completion of the development of activities, logic, resources, and progress for the integrated project schedule including local requirements. Apply, monitor adherence to, and make use of the Shell standard procedures and instruments.  

– Gather important input data, including project objectives, value drivers, scopes, contracting strategy, execution strategy, significant risks/opportunities, timetable, and embed carbon reduction & abatement. Then, incorporate these variables into your project planning along with local requirements and project complexity. 

– Create a Schedule Basis to record the process of creating a schedule or planning. Control the Planning Data. Create a procedure to gather real planning performance data, clean it up, and standardize it for later or ongoing use. Create a procedure for keeping planning files in a reliable, safe location. 

– Communicate with the project manager or potential company manager and push them to understand the critical scheduling drivers and sensitivities. Deliver a competitive and believable result to Senior Leadership.  

– Examine requests for scope changes to see how they may affect the project’s critical path and deadline. Make a reconciliation between the present timetable and previous ones. Compile the effects of authorized modifications and any departures from the main project goals and benchmarks. Use output tracking and “What if” scenarios to help with decision-making in project management. 

– Participate in the creation of contract/commercial strategy documents. Make sure that all contract/commercial milestones and important dates line up with the overall integrated plan. To support recommendations for contract award, assess contractor plans and contract bid schedules.  

– Participate in the creation of risk profiles for the project. Carry out planning estimate sensitivities and scenario comparisons that take project risks into account. Examine and evaluate the deterministic and probabilistic schedule risk analyses. Offer your skills in creating suitable backup plans for the project schedule. Monitor the criticality of the primary routes to completion, the release of the 50/50 schedule contingency, float consumption, and the attempts to mitigate schedule risk on a regular basis. 

– Initiate, design, and oversee the Planning Engineers and Progress Monitoring protocols to guarantee that every project component completes its tasks on schedule and with consistency. Own the monthly progress report, projection, critical path, and trend analysis for the entire schedule.  

– Create a structure for status reporting and deploy it across the planning hierarchy.  

– Comparing the length of time. Create benchmarking measures at the right level to compare top-down results against comparable internal and external data, such as past performance, industry standards, and set KPIs. Utilize IPA forms and reports to comprehend how Shell projects are compared to the most recent industry datasets. 

– Take part in project assurances, audits, and peer reviews.  

– Keep accurate records of dangers that have been identified and lessons learned for use in the future. Establish a reliable procedure for handling risk files in a safe location. 

– To make sure that DWP Nigeria’s objectives and SNEPCo Plans are in line, communicate with SNEPCo Technical Planning.  

– Encourage, mentor, and cultivate planning engineers to enhance project delivery, HSSE, quality, and planning and scheduling functional excellence. Continuous improvement is actively managed. 

– Ten (10) FTEs are directly reported.  

– Nigeria’s Department of Works and Pensions (DWP) advocates for the DWP Leadership Team to have a thorough overview of project milestones for both business planning (OP) and business performance review (BPR).  

– Participant in the Shell Project Controls Network. Work together for standardization, tool calibration, data gathering, benchmarking, continuous improvement, and assistance for regional and global planning with Shell Global Project Services (PS) and other Regions.  

– Block bidding, deals, exploration, greenfield, brownfield, and decommissioning from the phases of identify, assess, select, define, execute, and decommissioning are examples of opportunities and projects. 

– The following are important parties involved: the project team; discipline engineering; portfolio managers; wells; development; contracts and procurement; finance; human resources; commercial; legal; HSSE; assets; decommissioning; technical planning; group project services; vendors; contractors; NUIMS; NUPRC; and co-venturers.  

– Make sure the main opportunity/project tactics and expected outcomes are understood by all internal and external stakeholders. The Project Services Team is responsible for several tasks with varying project team membership. It is critical that PS Team members and other stakeholders view the support effort as extremely credible. The incumbent must have the background, mannerisms, and abilities to interact with a variety of stakeholders and reach consensus on the necessary conditions for effective outcomes. 

Qualification 

– An engineering degree is required; an external Certified Planning & Scheduling Professional certification (such as the AACEI-PSP) is a bonus.  

– Several years of experience in the oil and gas sector are essential. 

– 12 years or more of experience in the workforce  

– A significant amount of time (8 years) spent on downstream projects: possess substantial expertise in managing the scope of project services for post-DG3 projects as a planning professional, together with demonstrated experience in pre-DG3 projects.  

– Show that you can lead a team effectively. have prior direct report management experience. shown interpersonal and relational abilities in challenging settings, including the capacity to collaborate with staff from a variety of backgrounds. 

– Core competencies: a high degree of proficiency with project planning concepts.  

– Show your level of proficiency with the concepts, methods, applications, and tools of Shell Project Planning, such as Primavera P6, Acumen Fuse, and Primavera Risk Analysis. 

– Outstanding analytical, writing, teamwork, integration, and communication abilities. 

– Exhibit a high level of proficiency in presenting and explaining risk analysis and planning to diverse stakeholders. able to build trust with interested parties.  

– Show that you have a solid understanding of all the phases and processes involved in the project. 

Application Deadline 

Unspecified 

How to Apply 

Competent and qualified candidates who are interested should: click here to apply 

2. Financial Advisor at Shell Petroleum Development Company using SAP FICO

In Nigeria, the petroleum sector is led and pioneered by Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC). We make significant investments in our staff members, as evidenced by our sector-leading development program and our dedication to seeing our workers’ ideas through to completion.  

We are hiring to cover the following positions:  

Job Title: SAP FICO Finance Advisor  

ID for the job request: R154460  

Job Location: Lagos  

Type of Employment: Full-Time 

Role  

– Utilizing cutting edge technology and the highest caliber of technical expertise, provide Shell Companies in Nigeria with first-rate finance and operations support.  

– The position is located in the engine room, which guarantees the correctness and integrity of the financial data of the companies it supports and the ability to draw significant business conclusions from it. It calls for both a very keen eye for detail and the capacity to pan out and see the wider picture. 

– May be involved in one or more of the main areas of finance operations activities, such as financial reporting and analysis, business reporting and analysis, treasury, revenue, expenditure, governance, risk management, and assurance. 

– In-team subject matter expertise, peer mentorship, and support for their immediate teams as well as the larger Finance operations function in general will be provided by this role.  

– Lagos is the job location for this position. 

Accountability 

Assist the functional lead and team in maximizing the benefits of the SAP deployment by offering specialized knowledge to the Finance business area. 

– Help the firm determine how to use SAP to handle pertinent business operations in the best way possible so that the intended benefits of SAP can be realized.  

– Ability to communicate with and support people at varying SAP skill levels 

– Examine how possible organizational changes would affect the use of SAP.  

– To improve SAP user effectiveness in FICO business areas, take part in the creation and evaluation of training materials and support training delivery as best you can.  

– Actively encourage the effective usage of SAP and keep an eye on how it affects their respective business segments in order to realize the benefits that have been recognized.  

– Assesses actions for improvement and suggested modifications in a business setting.  

– Preparing monthly management information reports and dashboards for different stakeholders 

– Make that the BW HANA and SAP FICO solutions are appropriate for the job and updated on schedule to satisfy business needs.  

– MI report standardization and automation with PowerBi, Alteryx, and other tools. 

– Work together with other interested parties to guarantee that SAP ECC and BW have access to high-quality master and transaction data.  

– Putting together strong training programs to close identified end user competency gaps.  

– Sustaining training sessions at all Shell Companies in Nigeria (SEPCiN) sites; each individual must create the training to increase SAP end users’ proficiency.  

– Assist the Shell Central IT & Process Excellence team in making sure that the needs of Nigeria are met. 

SAP/BW Management 

IT knowledge or expertise, the usage of SAP (FI-CO) and Business Warehouse, management information and reporting, data analytics and visualization tools like Excel, Power BI, and Alteryx, aptitude for analysis and problem-solving. 

Planning, Budgeting, and Information Reports for Management: 

Dashboards and Management Information reporting, updating and standardizing reporting templates, automating reports with Visual Basic and macros the availability and integrity of master and transaction data, Uploading and updating a business plan Support for the cost recovery procedure and budget approval 

Qualifications 

– A bachelor’s degree  

– Needs to be certified in both project management and SAP finance. 

– 3 to 10 years of post-graduation job experience managing ERP systems and having a solid grasp of financial standards and concepts.  

 – Utilizing Business Warehouse and SAP, among other ERP and MI systems  

– Reports and information for management  

– Negotiation and stakeholder management abilities  

– Change management experience using ERP and Management Information Systems. 

Application Deadline 

Unspecified 

How to Apply 

Competent and qualified candidates who are interested should: click here to apply.

3. Supply Chain Materials Accelerator at Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC)

In Nigeria, the petroleum sector is led and pioneered by Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC). We make significant investments in our staff members, as evidenced by our sector-leading development program and our dedication to seeing our workers’ ideas through to completion.  

We are hiring to cover the following positions:  

Available position: Expediter for Materials in the Supply Chain  

ID for reference: R141736  

Job location: Lagos  

Category: Purchasing and Contracting 

About Job 

– An essential component of the Supply Chain Operations SNBO team based in Ikeja which assists Shell Companies in Nigeria (SCiN) is the Supply Chain – Materials Expediter position.  

– As a private contributor, it is your duty to communicate and work together with different levels of stakeholders in order to respond to questions, promptly address problems, and create future preventive action plans. 

Responsibilities 

You will be in charge of assuring that material purchase orders get processed effectively and on schedule so that essential materials are available at all Shell Nigeria work locations. In light of this, the role’s dimensions comprise: 

– serve as the main point of contact for Shell when working with material suppliers.  

– updating to evaluate the validity of purchase orders will enhance the credibility of Shell’s ERP (confirm order placement and lead delivery timelines) 

– serve as an industrial associate to the designated functional lines, making sure that they receive timely and accurate information on the items they have planned.  

– In order to find gaps and new problems in processes and procedures where KPI objectives are an issue, support and lead issue analysis. 

– As delegated and agreed upon with the line manager, carry out additional responsibilities within the parameters of the process and/or departmental/SNBO activities. (For instance, KPI analysis or Focal on the Visual Management Board)  

– Determine and address non-compliance in the material delivery chain and assist in integrating compliance standards by collaborating with business stakeholders, holding awareness sessions, and escalating issues. 

– Offer supplementary assistance to fellow team members. 

Requirements 

– Applicants need a bachelor’s degree.  

– Strong self-starting abilities and proficiency with advanced Excel and PowerBI skills in managing massive amounts of data.  

– Strong interpersonal and business collaboration abilities.  

– A certification or experience in project management will be beneficial. 

Application Deadline 

Unspecified 

How to Apply 

Competent and qualified candidates who are interested should: click here to apply