Ready to take your drilling career beyond day-to-day operations into performance leadership?
High Arctic Energy Services is seeking an experienced Operational Performance Coach to support drilling operations across our sites in Papua New Guinea.
High Arctic has built a strong reputation in Papua New Guinea through its commitment to operational excellence, employee development and community engagement. We combine the capability of a leading drilling contractor with the agility of a smaller organisation, creating opportunities for our people to grow, influence outcomes and build rewarding careers.
This is a unique opportunity for an accomplished drilling professional who enjoys improving operational performance, coaching teams, challenging assumptions and helping organisations learn from experience.
Working alongside experienced drilling supervisors, rig leadership teams, engineers and contractors, you’ll provide an independent performance lens that helps ensure plans are executed effectively, lessons are captured and operational performance continues to improve. This role is focused on operational excellence, disciplined execution and creating a culture of continuous improvement across our drilling operations.
About the Role
This is not a traditional drilling supervision role. Our rigs are staffed by experienced drilling professionals. Reporting to the Chief Operations Offficer, your role is to provide an independent performance perspective, helping operational teams understand what is working, what isn’t, and where opportunities exist to improve execution and performance. Key responsibilities include:
Supporting a strong safety and operational excellence culture across drilling operations.
Monitoring operational performance against approved plans and schedules.
Identifying execution gaps, operational inefficiencies and non-productive time (NPT).
Facilitating operational reviews, after-action reviews and lessons learned sessions.
Supporting operational readiness and planning reviews.
Developing performance reporting and KPI dashboards.
Promoting operational discipline and adherence to agreed work processes.
Driving accountability for operational commitments and improvement actions.
Assisting teams to identify root causes and implement sustainable solutions.
Leading knowledge capture and continuous improvement initiatives.