Production Methods Manager

TotalEnergies Group; Kuala Lumpur; On-site; MYR 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

TotalEnergies Group in Malaysia is seeking an experienced Production Operations leader to transform offshore leadership into onshore execution, driving asset integrity, safe delivery, and production performance across assets.

You will oversee field operations, manage safety, compliance audits, and coordination with contracts, HSSE, and procurement to deliver budgets and continuous improvement in process efficiency and reliability.

Qualifications

• 15+ years in Oil & Gas industry, with at least 10 years on sites.
• Strong site execution leadership with track record of delivering targets.
• Hands-on leadership with autonomous, self-driven mindset.
• Influence stakeholders to adopt new ideas, practices, controls.

Responsibilities

• Manage well integrity actions plan and deliverables.
• Follow up on HSE action items and identify solutions to enable progress.
• Prepare and present proposal for annual production work program budget.
• Coordinate field operations compliance (audits, certifications).
• Coordinate with Contracts & Procurement and HSSE on contracting strategy and tender plan.
• Provide technical support to offshore team on production/maintenance issues.
• Produce process analyses and sound technical recommendations.
• Follow up on Carbon Footprint Reduction initiatives and REX actions.
• Oversee performance of contractors to meet TotalEnergies standards.
• Ensure timely support to offshore site operations on production, reliability and maintenance.

Skills

Strategic leadership

Oil & Gas expertise

Site execution

Stakeholder management

Problem solving

Communication skills

Education

Engineering degree (Chemical/Petroleum/Process)

Job description

Ready to bring your offshore leadership expertise onshore and shape the future of production operations?

Join our Production Operations team in a high-impact role where your operational experience, leadership, and technical expertise will directly influence production performance, asset integrity, operational excellence, and the safe delivery of offshore production across our assets.

Responsibilities:

• Management of well integrity actions plan and deliverables
• Follow up on HSE related action items (Opersafe review, Synergi database, site reports, Field Operations essential trainings tracker, etc.) and identify pain points/solutions to enable progress.
• Prepare and present proposal for annual production work program budget (regulatory WPB and TotalEnergies budget).
• Coordinate on all field operations compliance requirements (timeline, actions tracking, etc.), e.g. MPM audit, DOSH audit, Helideck certification, ISO audit, OneMaestro audit, OPERCAP, OPERSAFE, etc.)
• Coordinate with Contracts & Procurement and HSSE team to identify contracting strategy, manage tender plan preparation and evaluation for the production contracts and sourcing of materials/services
• Provide technical support to offshore team on emerging production/maintenance issues, process optimization, to ensure safe operations and continuous production
• Produce process analysis/studies/assessment to troubleshoot technical issues, production shortfalls etc and provide sound technical proposal/ recommendations to address the issues.
• Follow up on Carbon Footprint Reduction, Process Quick-Look Assessment program/initiatives, to deliver production and process-related deliverables.
• Follow up on Return of Experience post activities execution (or relevant REX from other affiliates), coordinate and monitor the implementations of relevant action items from the REX.
• Possess a holistic overview of all the activities/requirements from various entities/stakeholders within Field Operations and integrate them for efficient execution with optimized production.
• Closely collaborate and build good working relationship with all the relevant (internal/external) stakeholders to meet the required deliverables (actions close-out, compliance, KPIs, etc.)
• Oversee contractor performance and accountability, ensuring third-party service providers consistently meet TotalEnergies' operational, technical, and safety standards.
• Ability to work under pressure, to produce/deliver production-critical solutions within tight execution timeline (Full Field Shutdown, production impact, etc.) in order to maintain high availability and reliability
• Ensure that the Company Management System procedures are delivered and rolled out as per schedule in line with the offshore operational transition requirements.
• Ensure that the field operations contracts are managed within budget and delivered as per agreement to meet production operations requirements.
• Ensure timely support to offshore site operations team on critical issues on production, equipment reliability, maintenance and inspection to avoid/minimize production interruption.

Qualifications/Experiences:

• Degree in Engineering (Chemical, Petroleum, or Process), Applied Science, or related technical field.
• Minimum 15 years’ experience in Oil & Gas industry, with at least 10 years experiences on sites.
• Strong site execution leadership experiences with proven track record to be able to convince the relevant stakeholders/entities and deliver the required targets through them in collaboration.
• Hands-on leadership with self-driven mindset and highly autonomous.
• Sound technical working experiences, knowledges and effective communication skills to be able to influence stakeholders (office and offshore) to accept new ideas, practices, procedures/controls etc.
• Apart from the core discipline (preferably process), possess experiences working in multi-disciplines and complex problems (technical, stakeholders involved etc) to be able to provide holistic approach and deliver a more complete solution for the issues.
• Experiences working in diverse environment dealing with suppliers and specialist from various backgrounds and nationality to be able to find common ground during discussion.