Gato do Mato Operations Manager

**The Role**:
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**Gato do Mato Operations Manager**

**What's the role?**

If you have experience as Operations Manager and Operations Readiness, it is a great opportunity to master your operating and leadership skills, integrate an offshore project in Brazil Pre-Salt, one of the most important frontiers of Deep Water in the world, and contribute to build-up the operations team and prepare the asset to a safe and reliable start-up. You’ll work in a fast growing, dynamic business environment, plenty of opportunities for learning and sharing good practices and experiences.

Gato do Mato project is a Deepwater Development in the pre-salt Santos Basin and is a Joint Venture with Shell as the Operator. The Development Concept for Gato do Mato is a Standalone Spread Moored FPSO.

As the Gato do Mato Operations Manager, you will work with the Project Team during the design and construction phase to ensure the asset readiness for a safe start-up, ramp-up, and operation to deliver the production promise, being accountable to:
**Accountabilities**:

- Ensure Asset requirements are optimized and defined to deliver production promise.
- Achieve Asset Readiness, operationalizing and assuring Asset Management System readiness and receive the Asset
- Together with Project Manager, deliver start-up, ramp-up till steady state.
- Maintain Asset license to operate through project to asset transition.
- Build Asset culture that delivers successful start-up, ramp-up and business performance.
- Set vision and strategies for asset organization readiness, start-up and early operations.
- Ensure project development and execution decisions are adequately factored in Asset implications.
- Support project Management of Change process, ensuring proper assessment on any change impacting the production promise and/or operational cost.
- Provide leadership for integration and collaboration with project organization leading to one team culture.
- Designs the operations organization, select, develop and train Shell Operations Organization to enable proper contract/asset management.
- Manage the deployment of Operate & Maintain contract to secure safe start-up, ramp-up and FPSO operations.
- HSSE readiness of the Asset Owner Organization and its service providers.
- Manage Technical and Non-Technical Risks (NTR) through project to asset transition.
- Champion GdM’s Greenhouse Gases and Energy Management agenda in support of Net Zero Emissions group aspirations.

The Gato do Mato Operations Manager will work closely with the Operational Readiness Lead on:

- Alignment of business plan forecasts for OPEX, start
- up, ramp up, uptime, and production promise assumptions