Tullow Oil is Africa’s leading
independent oil and gas exploration and production company and is a constituent
of the London FTSE100. The Group has interests in over 100 exploration and
production licences across 25 countries focusing on four core regions: Africa,
Europe, South Asia and South America. Working for Tullow Oil in Kenya, you will
be given the freedom and responsibility to make a difference.
We provide the
opportunities to build a solid future within our rapidly expanding portfolio
and provide competitive rewards as part of our people strategy. Our high level
of employee engagement is also one of our key success factors that we want to
continue building on.Tullow Oil is seeking talented, motivated, skilled individuals to fill the following position:
Industrial Relations Advisor
Job Purpose:
To provide effective industrial and employee relations support to head office and
field teams as maybe required.
Responsibilities
Responsibilities
- Implement Tullow’s industrial and employee
relations strategy.
- Provide advice and support to Line Managers on
implementation of labour laws and corporate policies.
- Ensure adherence to labour laws, corporate
policies and any other contractual agreements that Tullow has with the
community, third parties and other stakeholders.
- Provide advice on grievance and disciplinary
procedures to subcontractors and Tullow leadership to ensure that all
emerging issues are resolved amicably and speedily to maintain industrial
harmony.
- Receive and conclusively address grievances
including pay, discipline and recruitment issues amongst others that have
been escalated by the subcontractors or coming directly/ indirectly from
the field.
- Lead and provide guidance on alternative
dispute resolution mechanisms such as arbitration to resolve grievances
and disputes.
- Carry out research on best practice employee
relations for continuous improvement and enhancement of industrial
harmony.
- Represent the company in disputes involving
third parties to protect the company’s interest.
- Participate in any stakeholder negotiations
that affect industrial and employee relations and ensure that Tullow’s
interest are protected and covered at all times.
Experience and skills
- A Bachelor’s degree in Commerce with a
specialization in Human Resource or its equivalent.
- Postgraduate qualification e.g. Higher
National Diploma in HR or CIPD is essential
- A minimum five years experience in industrial
relations with key skills in dispute resolution, grievance handling
amongst others.
- Experience working with subcontractors.
- Strong leadership and influencing skills.
- Excellent knowledge of labour laws and
relevant regulatory requirements.
- Strong negotiation skills.
- Excellent in interpersonal and communication
skills.
Junior Planning Engineer
Tullow Oil is seeking a talented, self motivated, proactive and skilled individual of high personal integrity to fill the Junior Planning Engineer position:
Job Purpose:
He/she will assist the Planning
Engineer in providing a reliable and responsive and consistent planning service
on assigned projects; supervise the development of Company and Contractor
schedules for all phases of oil and gas projects and operations; monitor and
report progress against these schedules.
Key Responsibilities
Key Responsibilities
- Assist the Planning Engineer in analyzing
project requirements and preparing Project Master Schedule which
integrates constraints and strategies for all phases.
- Support the Planning Engineer in preparing
Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), which form the basis for detailed level
schedule for reporting and analysis.
- Issue detailed activity schedules and expedite
the return of schedule updating data obtained from the contractors and
Tullow team.
- Support the Planning Engineer in monitoring
progress against schedules while analyzing deviations and recommending
remedial actions.
- Prepare agenda items for schedule review
meetings.
- Support the Planning Engineer in facilitating
the project change management process.
- Prepare weekly operations progress reports.
- Assist the Planning Engineer in preparing and
making presentations to project teams and senior management on project
status.
- Assist the Planning Engineer in maintaining
schedule related database and the development of new planning tools and
methodologies.
The ideal candidate should possess
the following minimum skills and competencies;
- Degree qualified in a relevant discipline.
- Experience of industry standard project
controls systems such as Primavera, Artemis, or MS Project is essential.
- 2 years experience in project planning &
scheduling.
- Membership of a professional body such as APM
or PMI is desirable.
National Content Field Coordinator
Tullow Oil is seeking a talented, self motivated, proactive and skilled individual of high personal integrity to fill the National Content Field Coordinator.
Job Purpose:
Reporting to the National Content
Manager, you will be responsible for mapping out potential local suppliers from
Turkana; build their capacity on how to sucessfully win and deliver contracts.
You will also ensure local suppliers understand Tullow’s contracts and
procurement standards and requirements.
Key Responsibilities
Key Responsibilities
- Identify opportunities for Turkana businesses
in Tullow Kenya supply chain operations.
- Categorize feasible and potential Turkana
businesses and align them with Tullow’s business needs.
- Establish from procurement plans and contracts
any market sectors that require analysis for possible development in
Turkana region and build the capacity of local business to venture into
these sectors.
- Ensure contracts with the locals are given
appropriate consideration at Commodity Reference Bureau (CRB).
- Develop opportunities that are geared towards
increasing the participation of local suppliers. This includes reviewing
the necessary resources required to develop this function effectively in
Turkana.
- Engage with local stakeholders to communicate
and clarify on expectations and special projects as well as gather
accurate information on local businesses and stakeholders
- Monitor and investigate performance of Tullow
direct suppliers in delivering its supply chain objective and remedy
through Contractor performance management processes; liaise closely with
Enterprise Development Centres to facilitate performance improvement
training, coaching and mentoring services for Turkana businesses, Tullow’s
and its Contractors (Turkana suppliers).
- Effectively communicate current, appropriate
and accurate objectives and processes of special projects to all
stakeholders within Turkana region.
- Record and report relevant Key Performance
Indicators (KPI’s)
The ideal candidate should possess
the following minimum skills and competencies;
- Post graduate education level in a business or
similar related subject is desirable.
- Minimum 5 years at a supervisory level in a
deadline driven, contractually sensitive working environment such as
construction project or logistics management or has preformed similar role
in the Oil and Gas industry.
- Substantive exposure to front line interaction
with suppliers and clients is essential.
- Experience in Contracts & Procurement at a
Contracts Advisor/Senior Contracts Advisor level.
- Proven successful experience in working as an
interface is paramount: expectations are high and need to be managed
realistically.
- Experience of training, developing and
mentoring subordinates is desirable.
- Commercially aware with sound business acumen.
- A problem solver with the ability to innovate.
- Ability to work in a challenging work
environment.
How to apply:
Send your application including a cover letter indicating your desire to work with our client; a detailed CV highlighting relevant experience, details of current and expected salary, a daytime phone contact, email address, and the names of three professional referees to:
Email: recruit@adeptsystems.co.ke
Only short listed candidates will be contacted. Please note that we do not charge fees for receiving or processing job applications. Visit our website for more vacancies.
Closing date: Friday 22nd August 2014