Location: Basrah
Job Type:
Permanent
Closing Date:
2025-04-11
About vacancy
mselect is looking to hire an IT Project Management Office Head for an international oil and gas operator in Basrah, Iraq. Candidates must have 5-8 years of relevant experience within the Oil & Gas industry. Fluency in English and Arabic is a must.
Job Purpose
To lead an IT project team and provide an IT project management and IT parts of projects of other departments by the standing procedures.
Key Responsibilities
Requirements
Rotation
28/28
*Only applicants meeting the strict criteria outlined above will be contacted as part of the shortlisting process.
Job Purpose
To lead an IT project team and provide an IT project management and IT parts of projects of other departments by the standing procedures.
Key Responsibilities
- Apply standard project management and IT control/assurance methodologies, standards and processes (such as PMI agile) including architecture, information risk management, and transition to support
- Have a solid infrastructure knowledge of telecom and network in the oil field
- Have a clear picture of the products of major vendors in the industry
- Lead the team to maintain the existing system with the assurance team
- Give the guideline or suggestion for the design of the new system
- Monitor system resource utilization, trending, and capacity planning
- Liaise with vendors and other IT sections for problem-resolution
- Comprehensive knowledge of relevant development life cycles and the operating environments and in-depth knowledge of risk management Understands the interdependencies of business processes and information systems
- Understands and applies the theory and practice of change management Knows and uses various change methodologies appropriately at the individual, team and organizational level
- Understanding of the costs of IT (project and lifecycle) and the ability to identify cost levers which the project steering committee can pull to drive down the operations costs
Requirements
- BSc Degree in Engineering, computer, communication, electrical
- 5-8 years of relevant job experience within the Oil & Gas industry
- PMI certification
- Knowledge of agile methodologies
- Relationship Management: Promotes a collaborative "One Team" mindset
- Good understanding of and demonstrable hands-on experience in all functional aspects of IT-Telecom including networking, security, maintenance SLA management etc
- MS Office: Excel (advanced), Word (Intermediate), PowerPoint (Intermediate)
- English – upper intermediate (verbal & written)
- Proven supervisory skills
- Communication skills
- Presentation skills
- Focus on continuous self-learning and improvement
- Ability to work cohesively and communicate successfully in multi-cultural teams whilst being aware of and sensitive to cultural differences
- Ability to communicate, coordinate, and manage cost data flow interfaces with each function
Rotation
28/28
*Only applicants meeting the strict criteria outlined above will be contacted as part of the shortlisting process.
