Project Coordinator (Upstream & Midstream Gas Development)

Job Summary

• The Project Coordinator provides senior, day-to-day coordination of a portfolio of upstream and midstream gas project developments, translating the Project Director's direction and senior leadership decisions into disciplined execufion across all workstreams.
• The role requires sufficient technical grounding across the upstream value chain to engage credibly with subsurface, drilling and completions teams, sanity-check technical inputs and timelines, and identily and escalale risk early... acling, in effect, as a technically fuent right hand to the Project Director rather than a purely administrative coordinator.

Key Responsibilities

• Own and maintain the master programme schedule, dependency map, and risk and issue log across all workstreams.
• Translate Project Director direction and senior leadership decisions into clear workstream actions, and track delivery agoinst them.
• Coordinate cross-functional working sessions across subsurface, chiling, facilities, commercial, regulatory, corporate and SSE, and drive timely resolution of interface issues between workstreams.
• Provide independent, technically informed sanity-checking of subsurface, drilling and completions inputs and timelines: flag technical risk or schedule optimism eary rather than simply reporting status.
• Prepare programme reporting materials, including status updates, steering committee packs and senior leadership briefings.
• Manage programme documentation and governance cadence - meetings, minutes, actions and decision logs - and oversee information and document management for the programme.
• Support the Project Director in stakeholder engagement, and act os a credible deputy in the Project Director's absence where required,

Requirements

• Bachelors Degree in Engineering, Geosciences or a related technical discipline.
• At least 15 years in the upstream oil & gas industry with hands-on experience across multiple stages of the value chain-. subsurface data acquisition and interpretation, criling and completions; production or facilities exposure is a plus.
• Prior experience in a senior project management. project controls, or programme corination role on a major upstream oil and gas development. including LNG projects.
• Demonstrated ability to operate as a technically credible second-in-command - able to challenge technical teams and independently idenlify risk, not simply track and report status.
• Strong organisational and reporting discipline, with experience using programme management fools and operating within formal governance structures.

Advantageous:

• Prior ING project exposure.
• Experience operating within the Nigerian upstream regulatory and operating environment.
• Formal project management credentials (e.g. PMP,PRINCE) in addition to technical background.

Key Competencies:

• Highly organised and detail-oriented. comfortable owning the operational 'engine room' of a complex. multi-workstream programme.
• Technical fluency and conficience to engage subsurface, drilling and completions specialists as a credible peer, not merely a scheduler of their time.
• Strong written and verbal communication, with the ability to produce senior leadership-ready materiais.
• Sound discretion and judgement, able to operate close to sensitive commercial and governance maiters.
• A self-starter, comfortable with pace and ambiguity in an early-stage programme.

Application Closing Date
19th August, 2026.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should submit their applications, quoting relevant references, attaching Curriculum Vite and scanned passport-size photograph to:  using the job title as the subject of the email.

Note : All applications will be treated in strict confidence and only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

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