Oil & Gas Testing Operations Leader

Weatherford; Saudi Arabia; On-site; SAR 300,000 - 450,000; Full time

Job summary

Weatherford is seeking a senior operations leader to drive testing services, optimize profitability, and ensure high-quality delivery worldwide. You will manage strategic plans, pricing, resource planning, and stakeholder engagement while mentoring teams across functions.

The role emphasizes safety, efficiency, and continuous improvement, with responsibilities spanning budget control, contracts, and customer relationships to maximize value for clients and Weatherford.

Qualifications

• Bachelor Degree in Engineering or related field.
• 10 to 15 years of Oil & Gas operations experience.
• Minimum 5 years in Testing, Well Testing, Production Testing, Flowback, Surface Well Testing, or related intervention services.
• Minimum 5 years in a leadership or management role with direct responsibility for personnel, operational execution, and financial performance.
• Demonstrated experience managing multi-disciplinary teams and field operations.

Responsibilities

• Align operational activities with strategic service goals and business objectives.
• Maintain regular communication with leadership, highlighting opportunities, risks, and operational challenges.
• Support execution of operational improvement initiatives and long-term growth plans.
• Review financial performance against forecast and budget and implement corrective actions when required.
• Analyze trends, variances, costs, revenue, and gross margin performance.
• Recommend workforce and organizational structure adjustments based on activity levels and business requirements.
• Approve operational expenditures and monitor budget compliance.
• Review contracts to maximize revenue and minimize commercial leakage.
• Drive upselling opportunities and margin improvement initiatives.
• Oversee delivery ticket creation and support timely invoice and cash collection.
• Monitor forecasting accuracy, DSO, DTI, disputed invoices, revenue accruals, and forecast performance.
• Lead operational execution, resource planning, personnel utilization, and asset utilization.
• Manage inventory levels, storage, preservation, maintenance, and deployment of assets.
• Conduct inventory audits and cycle counts to ensure stock accuracy.
• Collaborate with global teams to improve demand forecasting and resource planning.
• Monitor R&M cycle time, inventory turns, overtime, asset utilization, and DSI performance.
• Lead operational readiness and deployment of new testing technologies.
• Support field trials, technology qualification programs, and launch plans.
• Optimize resource allocation for new technology implementation.
• Drive revenue growth through adoption of new technologies and services.
• Act as the primary operational interface with customers.
• Build and maintain trusted relationships with customer management.

Skills

Strategic planning

Financial mgmt

Workforce planning

Inventory management

Demand forecasting

Testing deployment

CRM & engagement

HSE compliance

Risk & RCAs

Continuous improvement

Quality standards

Leadership

KPI management

Education

Bachelor Degree in Engineering

Job description

Weatherford is seeking a senior operations leader to drive testing services, optimize profitability, and ensure high-quality delivery worldwide. You will manage strategic plans, pricing, resource planning, and stakeholder engagement while mentoring teams across functions.

The role emphasizes safety, efficiency, and continuous improvement, with responsibilities spanning budget control, contracts, and customer relationships to maximize value for clients and Weatherford.