Requirements
Requires a Bachelor's degree in engineering, business, or operations management with 10-12 years of experience in continuous improvement, operational excellence, or process optimization, preferably in oil & gas. Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, and stakeholder management skills are essential, along with the ability to influence across functions and levels.
Description
Job description / Role
Job Type
Full Time
Job Location
UAE
Nationality
Any Nationality
Salary
Not Specified
Gender
Not Specified
Arabic Fluency
Not Specified
Job Function
General Management
Company Industry
Oil & Gas / Energy
Job purpose
The manager, continuous improvement is responsible for driving enterprise-wide operational excellence and sustainable value creation by improving the end-to-end processes that enable ADNOC Gas to operate safely, reliably, efficiently, and at optimal cost. The role focuses on strengthening how work is designed, governed, executed, and enabled across the organization, ensuring that operational, technical, and organizational processes consistently support performance, safety, reliability, cost efficiency, and long-term value delivery.
Key accountabilities
Continuous improvement & value optimization
Identify, assess, and challenge complex, fragmented, lengthy, and manually intensive processes that create unnecessary workload, execution delays, or excessive manpower demand.
Lead the development and implementation of simplified, standardized, and automated modifications or changes that improve efficiency, quality, and execution speed.
Ensure improvement initiatives are value-led, with clear linkage to productivity gains, cost reduction or avoidance, and improved organizational capacity utilization.
Process, modification & change optimization
Apply structured, data-driven analysis to evaluate how processes and operational changes are:
Designed, governed, and controlled
Executed and interfaced across functions and sites
Supported by systems, tools, and information flows
Resourced and staffed
Drive optimization of processes, modifications, and organizational changes that influence asset performance, reliability, integrity, safety, planning effectiveness, cost control, and execution efficiency.
Automation, analytics & intelligent enablement
Promote the use of automation, advanced analytics, intelligent systems, and AI-based capabilities to:
Reduce manual effort, duplication, and rework
Shorten cycle times and decision latency
Improve accuracy, consistency, and transparency
Strengthen decision quality and performance predictability
Support structural workload reduction, enabling sustainable productivity improvement and efficient use of organizational resources
Operational excellence & performance support
Ensure continuous improvement initiatives directly support operational excellence outcomes, including improved safety, reliability, availability, cost efficiency, and capital discipline.
Strengthen the linkage between performance, cost, and value delivery across ADNOC Gas.
Qualifications, experience, knowledge & skills
Minimum qualification
Bachelor’s degree in engineering, business, operations management, or equivalent.
Experience & knowledge
Minimum 10–12 years of experience in continuous improvement, operational excellence, process optimization, or performance improvement roles, preferably in oil & gas or heavy industry.
Strong understanding of end-to-end operational and enabling processes and their impact on performance and cost.
Skills
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
Ability to influence across functions and levels
Structured thinking with a value-focused mindset
Strong communication and stakeholder management capability
About the Company
We are one of the world's leading energy producers, and a primary catalyst for Abu Dhabi’s growth and diversification.
We operate across the entire hydrocarbon value chain, through a network of fully-integrated businesses, with interests that range from exploration, production, storage, refining and distribution, to the development of a wide-range of petrochemical products.
Since 1971, we have created thousands of jobs, driven the growth of a diverse knowledge-based economy, and played a key role in Abu Dhabi’s global emergence.
Today, we continue to look for new and innovative ways to maximize the value of our resources, pioneering those approaches and technologies that will ensure we are able to meet the demands of an ever-changing energy market, and continue to have a positive impact on the Abu Dhabi economy for generations to come.
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