Company Description Parker Wellbore helps energy companies accomplish their drilling and production goals efficiently, reliably, and safely.
Our global team supports oil and gas operators with innovative land and offshore drilling services, premium rental tools and well services, and advanced operations and management support.
Founded in 1934, Parker Wellbore helps customers manage their costs and mitigate their risks, to achieve their operational goals in a safe and efficient manner.
With experience in both harsh-environment regions and complex drilling situations, you can trust Parker Wellbore to get the job done.
**Job Description**:
The Operations Manager takes Total Ownership, including providing leadership and management, for all drilling operations in the division.
The Operations Manager is responsible to ensure that operations are executed in compliance with company guidelines, policies and procedures.
This includes ensuring compliance with all company, client, and provincial or federal rules and regulations.
**Essential functions**
- Provides visible leadership with Total Ownership Attitude.
- Ensures drilling operations are conducted in a safe and professional manner.
- Promotes operational excellence through procedural and operational discipline.
- Responsible for supporting Country Manager in developing and achieving the strategic plan for the location.
- Responsible for budgeting capital spend as well as RS&R for operations in line with goals set out by Country Manager
- Acts as liaison between customers and Company's rig leadership to ensure customers' drilling programs are successfully completed, always with a focus on Innovative, Reliable, and Efficient operations.
- Supports business unit and division in bids, tenders, contract amendments, and other opportunities for division growth.
- Supports local relationships (customer, vendors, and government) critical to the success of the operation.
- Manages personnel within company policies and procedures as required.
- Enforces, clarifies, follows and ensures strict adherence to Company policies, standards, and procedures, including those in the Integrated Management System (IMS) and QMS.
- Ensures strict adherence to company and government compliance related policies including the Code of Conduct, the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), and local laws and regulations.
- Reviews and adheres to contracts to ensure company's interests are maintained.
- Plan's, monitors and manages planned maintenance and approved capital spending.
- Responsible for inventory turnover and its maintenance.
- Oversees major equipment moves.
- Performs additional duties, responsibilities, and special projects as may be directed.
**Qualifications**:
**Necessary qualifications, skills and abilities**
- Must have High School diploma.
- College degree is strongly preferred.
- Must have experience as a Rig Manager, Rig Superintendent, Field Superintendent or Area Superintendent.
- Should have at least 10 years of work experience in drilling operations.
- Should have experience supervising others.
- Capacity to work effectively under pressure in ambiguous and complex situations.
- Ability to work independently with multiple people at many levels and work as part of a team.
- Professional relationship and interpersonal skills with strong customer service attitude.
- Excellent time management skills to prioritize and manage multiple requests from various avenues, and the ability to change direction in response to fluctuating circumstances.
- Must be able to problem solve.
- Must be a self-motivator and work without close supervision.
- Must be able to prioritize jobs and work under tight time constraints.
- Must have good computer skills to include all MS Office products.
- Must be able/willing to travel nationally and internationally.
- Must have good written and verbal communication skills and able to effectively communicate with staff, management, customers and vendors.
Being multi-lingual is preferred.
**Position competencies**
- ** Intercultural Awareness** Understands, leverages and respects cultural differences, languages, customs and manners on the ground.
Has the ability to be flexible, adaptable and agile in foreign environments.
- ** Business Acumen** Business Acumen is understanding how our businesses generate profits and competitive advantage after weighing foreseeable risks.
It requires knowledge of how technical and functional roles contribute to and impact bottom-line results.
Specifically, it's knowing what business, financial and operational conditions must exist for Parker to maximize profits, without undue risk.
Business acumen requires savviness of market practices and industry tactics to assess and determine when the outcome of a decision will result in added value for the organization.
- ** Building Effective Teams** Promotes followership; encourages team members to share knowledge; values contributions of all teammates; shares wins and