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O&M Supervisor (Onshore)

Shell
Offshore Oil Field - UK Posted Aug 6, 2026
Hybrid

About this role

What’s the role

Operations and Maintenance (O&M) Supervisor supports day-to-day operations, maintenance, Health, Safety and Environment (HSE) activities, and projects for the production unit (PU). You will gain experience working with processes, procedures, and people across multiple departments, while engaging with external stakeholders such as the Health and Safety Executive. The role involves daily interaction with the PU Operations Engineer, Maintenance Execution Lead, Offshore Leadership Team, Technical Authorities, and support functions. The O&M Supervisor will also own specific improvement initiatives for the PU and act as the focal point for key safety and reliability modifications. From time to time, you may be required to provide offshore cover, support O&M Lead or Operations Engineer responsibilities, and visit other assets to share and apply cross-learning opportunities.

What you’ll be doing

  • Key attendee to daily operating rhythm meetings, supporting ongoing safe operations through providing overview of Safety Critical Element (SCE) status.

  • Liaise with Wells Reservoir & Facilities Management (WRFM) Team to optimise daily production and track and analyse deferment, identifying corrective actions though causal learning processes

  • Custodian for the PU Management of Change (eMOC) process, working with eMOC owners to progress to closure in efficient and robust manner

  • Custodian for the PU Manage Threats and Opportunities (MTO) process, working closely with PU Operations Engineer to rank, prioritise and liquidate initiatives

  • Prepare and facilitate risk assessment for impaired and degraded safety-critical elements (SCEs)

  • Prepare and present cumulative risk assessments for production facilities during structured review sessions.

  • Act as Operations focal point for minor modifications scope from concept through to execution, inclusive of attending and providing input to key studies and assessments – HAZOP/HAZID/SIL/Alarm Management

  • Participate in Tier 1 documentation periodic reviews, inclusive of Safety Case thorough reviews

  • Lead and support incident investigations for both PU and wider asset

  • Provide coaching to onshore/offshore staff in operations/maintenance/projects processes

What you bring

  • Relevant experience or understanding of activities of Operations and Maintenance within oil and gas industry

  • Offshore experience is essential, along with ability to gain/retain required training/medical clearance to travel offshore

  • Project and project planning experience

  • System reliability and bad actor analysis

  • Advanced skills using Microsoft Office including Word, Excel and PowerPoint;

  • Management of change

  • Experience with SAP or a comparable financial database system

  • Risk assessment and management of impaired equipment

  • Strong organisational and prioritization skills

  • Ability to work without supervision;

  • Works well multidisciplinary teams, and shows strong interpersonal and influencing skills, both across peer group and wider organisation;

  • Self-motivated and proactive approach, uses own initiative to solve problems and overcome setbacks;

  • Auditing/process review experience, causal learning an advantage

  • Amenable to commute to office/location every week.

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