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Job Summary

Job Title:
Start Up Support Senior Production Operator – CPF (Day/Night)
Employer:
Total Energies Uganda
Location:
Buliisa
Country:
Uganda
Contract Type:
Full-time
Job Category:
Number of Positions:
Deadline:
Friday, 20 February 2026

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​TotalEnergies, established in 1924 as Compagnie Française des Pétroles, has evolved into a global integrated energy company committed to producing and marketing a diverse range of energies, including oil, biofuels, natural gas, green gases, renewables, and electricity. With a workforce exceeding 100,000 employees across approximately 120 countries, TotalEnergies is dedicated to providing reliable, affordable, and sustainable energy solutions. The company's mission is to be a major player in the energy transition, aiming for carbon neutrality by 2050 in collaboration with society. TotalEnergies fosters a supportive and inclusive work environment, offering employees opportunities for growth and development. The company actively seeks talent through its careers portal, providing various job opportunities worldwide. Emphasizing safety, respect for each other, a pioneer spirit, the need to stand together, and a performance-minded attitude as core values, Total Energies integrates these principles into its operations and corporate culture. The company places sustainable development at the heart of its strategy, contributing to societal well-being and aligning with the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals. For more information, visit their official website at www.totalenergies.com.

Full-time

Deadline: 

20 Feb 2026

Start Up Support Senior Production Operator – CPF (Day/Night) Job at Total Energies Uganda

Total Energies Uganda

Job Description

Prepare and provide regular in-field production reports regarding CPF, operation and equipment in time and precisely. Carry out precisely all operations on site in a logbook. Participate in the update of PI&D’s and other operational documents as required

Work closely with team. Keep CRO, Prod SPV and others informed of operation on site as required. Ensure good quality and accurate shift and rotation handovers are compiled and communicated with B2B. Ensure LO/LC Valves, LTI’s, disturbed hydrocarbon lines register is updated as required

Duties, Roles and Responsibilities

  • Prepare detailed procedures to cover all steps of the start-up sequence. Prepare Pre-Start-Up Check lists.

During commissioning phase:

  • Attend Operational Tests Procedures. Contribute to troubleshooting during the same. Contribute to punch listing. Follow up on punch list clearance.
  • Coordinate with OJT coordinator and trainers and take actively part in On Job Training Sessions with trainees / future junior operators, involving them in all preparation tasks. Contribute to evaluation of competencies of trainees to identify gap and requirement for further training.
  • Ensure trainees become familiar with procedures and routine operations. Train them on specific operations
  • Prepare system for first start-up after Handover. Carry out line-walks of CPF as per procedures ensuring systems are safe to start.

CPF systems start-up:

  • Lead the activities on field during start-up phase, with assistance from Junior operators, ensuring strict adherence to procedures.
  • Report about any abnormal conditions during start-up and act immediately to keep process safe and under proper conditions.

CPF operation:

  • Operate plant safely and efficiently. Understand the aim and principle of each vessel and equipment. Understand principles of oil, gas, water processing and utilities such as slug, sand, lake water, air, nitrogen and others. Be able to calculate operation parameters and estimate correctness of equipment regime.
  • Troubleshoot in field and act immediately as soon as abnormalize identified.
  • Ensure optimized operation implementing adjustments under direction of the Production Supervisor and engineering team. Report and correct all identified deviations in collaboration with the team. Direct truck operations on site such as steam truck and vacuum etc. Perform all other tasks related to his field of production activities at the request of Production Supervisor.
  • Provide strict export nomination as approved. Act immediately as soon as abnormalize identified.
  • Ensure all operations are implemented safely with all required documentation with sufficient approvals. Perform the operation strictly following instructions and procedures and ask for changes as soon as it is required following management of change procedure.
  • Aware of the Emergency Response Plans and act as ERT member as assigned. Ensure all operations are performing safely, stop any unsafe operations and report to the supervisor. Be sure that the system works properly and safely. Understand all safety equipment in operations and operate it in case of process safety incidents including integrity failure.
  • Act as an operation and isolating authority and on site for PTW system. Prepare isolation certificates according to work management system. Lead operations and make sure all operations are in compliance with safety and regulatory standards. All control measures are sufficient and implemented in place. Perform all isolations and zero energy confirmation procedures mentioned in PTW and isolation certificate.

Perform gas testing for PTW

  • Perform maintenance L1 and L2. Prepare equipment for intervening maintenance and lead the operations. Take part in solving the problem from the operation side. Be sure all equipment is properly maintained on time and ready for operation.
  • Regularly daily safety and process rounds, sampling, monitoring, in-filed observation, housekeeping and other routing activities on CPF. Check on a regular basis process parameter and chemical injection efficiency and rates. Ensure all operations are performed at time and according to planning.
  • Participate in Lesson Learned System. Register new events properly with corrective mitigations.
  • Identify anomalies in operating equipment and prepare notifications for MNT. Keep informed Prod SPV. Additionally, offer new solutions for the operation and process, get information for request for modification.
  • Prepare and provide regular in-field production reports regarding CPF, operation and equipment in time and precisely. Carry out precisely all operations on site in a logbook. Participate in the update of PI&D’s and other operational documents as required
  • Work closely with team. Keep CRO, Prod SPV and others informed of operation on site as required. Ensure good quality and accurate shift and rotation handovers are compiled and communicated with B2B. Ensure LO/LC Valves, LTI’s, disturbed hydrocarbon lines register is updated as required
  • Act as an owner of installation for coworkers and contractors. Be involved in operations on site and take active participation as for normal operation as for troubleshooting in field. Be an example for others on the side in terms of safety. Act as a technical leader on site for site operators focusing on in-field newcomers and share information you have with colleagues.

Operations

  • Prepare start-up operating procedures
  • Participate actively to Commissioning activities
  • Train and Coach junior operators throughout the commissioning activities and further during start-up of the plant to help them reach required experience to operate CPF.
  • Startup CPF after commissioning, adjust process related to in-field operator.
  • Contribute that daily Operations are performed in accordance with the Health Safety and Environment legislation and in compliance with the work management system.
  • The Production Operator is the OWNER of CPF thus responsible for monitoring and operating process and utility equipment and to ensure optimized operation implementing adjustments, in close cooperation and communication with, SPVs and engineers.
  • Take ownership of the installations and keep equipment in proper and safe condition.

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