Oil & Gas Services Manager – Gulf Cryo

Establish, develop, and manage the company’s oil and gas services business, with

initial focus on hydraulic fracturing and Pipeline and Process Services.

Take end-to-end responsibility for business planning, commercial development, financial

performance, people, equipment, operational readiness, and project delivery. Build a

capable organization that delivers safe, reliable, technically compliant, and profitable

services.

Key responsibilities

1. Business establishment and strategy

 Develop the business plan, market entry strategy, service portfolio, organizational

structure, and implementation roadmap.

 Assess market demand, competition, customer requirements, investment needs,

and commercial risks for each service line.

 Recommend whether capabilities should be developed internally, acquired,

rented, subcontracted, or delivered through technology partnerships.

 Establish operating facilities, workshops, systems, procedures, and supply

arrangements.

 Secure required company registrations, customer prequalification, approvals, and

certifications with relevant internal functions.

 Define readiness criteria and ensure personnel, equipment, procedures, and

technical support are in place before accepting work.

2. Commercial development and customer management

 Build relationships with oil and gas operators, engineering contractors, and other

prospective clients.

 Develop a qualified opportunity pipeline and lead tendering, pricing, contract

negotiations, and technical-commercial proposals.

 Ensure bids reflect realistic equipment capacity, staffing, mobilization

requirements, execution risks, and expected margins.

 Review contractual scope, acceptance criteria, liabilities, payment terms,

exclusions, and change-management provisions.

 Maintain senior customer relationships and resolve commercial or service

delivery issues.

 Develop partnerships with specialist service companies, equipment

manufacturers, and technology providers.

3. Hydraulic fracturing services

 Develop and manage the operational capability required to execute the

company’s contracted hydraulic fracturing services.

 Ensure qualified specialists prepare and review treatment designs, pumping

programs, equipment configurations, and execution procedures.

 Plan the availability of pumping equipment, blending systems, pressure-rated

equipment, instrumentation, materials, and field crews.

 Coordinate CO2 and Nitrogen transport, and other contracted support

requirements.

 Ensure clear interfaces with the client’s well operations, completion, and other

service contractors.

 Monitor execution quality, equipment reliability, nonproductive time, and post-job

performance reporting.

4. Pipeline and Process Services

 Establish the approved PPS portfolio according to market needs and company

capability.

 Oversee relevant services such as pipeline cleaning and pigging, hydrotesting,

dewatering, drying, nitrogen purging and inserting, leak testing, flushing, and

chemical cleaning.

 Manage recommissioning, commissioning support, maintenance, shutdown, and

decommissioning assignments within the contracted scope.

 Ensure competent specialists develop procedures, engineering calculations,

equipment selections, and acceptance criteria.

 Coordinate interfaces with construction teams, plant operations, clients, and

subcontractors.

 Ensure complete test records, technical reports, and customer handover

documentation.

5. Project delivery

 Own delivery from contract award through planning, mobilization, execution,

demobilization, closeout, and commercial settlement.

 Assign project leaders and supervisors, establish budgets and schedules, and

confirm resource availability.

 Review project execution plans, risks, procurement needs, subcontracting

arrangements, and contingency plans.

 Monitor progress, costs, productivity, service quality, and contractual obligations.

 Manage scope changes, variations, delays, claims, and customer acceptance.

 Conduct project reviews and incorporate lessons learned into future work.

6. People and organizational management

 Develop, and retain engineers, supervisors, operators, technicians, and support

personnel.

 Establish clear reporting lines, responsibilities, performance objectives, and

accountability.

 Maintain competence matrices, training plans, and task-specific authorization

requirements.

 Plan staffing, crew rotations, succession, and workload across simultaneous

projects.

 Build a culture of teamwork, operational discipline, customer service, and

continuous improvement.

7. Equipment and asset management

 Develop equipment specifications, investment plans, and purchase-versus-rental

recommendations.

 Manage procurement, fleet allocation, mobilization, maintenance, repair, and

replacement.

 Establish preventive maintenance, inspection, calibration, certification, and

equipment traceability systems.

 Maintain critical spares, consumables, and reliable supplier support.

 Monitor utilization, availability, downtime, maintenance costs, and asset returns.

 Ensure equipment is suitable and released for service before deployment.

8. Health, safety, environment, and quality

 Establish and enforce HSE and quality systems appropriate to each service line.

 Ensure effective risk assessments, approved work procedures, emergency

arrangements, and site coordination.

 Maintain clear technical approval responsibilities and stop-work authority.

 Ensure applicable regulatory, customer, and engineering requirements are

identified and met.

 Lead incident investigations, corrective actions, audits, and service-quality

improvement.

 Promote prompt reporting of hazards and near misses.

9. Financial management and reporting

 Own the business unit’s profit and loss, budgets, forecasts, and cost controls.

 Manage capital expenditure, operating expenditure, working capital, and project

profitability.

 Ensure timely preparation of service tickets, customer approvals, invoices, and

supporting documents.

 Work with finance to resolve disputed invoices and collect outstanding payments.

 Report business performance, project status, risks, resource requirements, and

investment proposals to management.

Job Details

Posted Date:2026-10-29
Job Location:Kuwait – Al Ahmadi
Job Role:Oil and Gas
Company Industry:Oil & Gas

Preferred Candidate

Nationality:Kuwait

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