Production Team Leader

Job Summary:

Leads the safe, efficient, and reliable operation of ADES oil and gas production assets in Syria. The role is accountable for achieving production targets, maximizing facility availability and uptime, maintaining operational and process-safety standards, coordinating maintenance and reliability activities, and developing production teams and contractors across wells, gathering systems, processing facilities, utilities, storage, and export operations.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Lead daily oil, gas and water production in line with ADES QHSSE requirements, approved procedures and applicable regulations.
• Monitor production performance, constraints, downtime and deferment, and drive timely recovery and optimization actions.
• Coordinate operations across wells, gathering systems, processing facilities, utilities, storage and export points.
• Align preventive and corrective maintenance, shutdowns and asset-integrity priorities with Maintenance, Engineering and HSE.
• Lead supervisors, operators and contractors, maintaining clear accountability, safe staffing and workforce competence.
• Report operational KPIs, risks and costs, and manage budgets and contractor performance without compromising safety or reliability.

Education & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in mechanical, Chemical, Petroleum, Process Engineering, or a related discipline.
• At least 15 years of upstream production experience, including 5 years in a production leadership role.
• Strong onshore experience covering production facilities from wellhead to export.
• Sound knowledge of production planning, process safety, reliability, maintenance coordination and cost control.
• Fluency in Arabic and English, with strong leadership, decision-making and stakeholder-management skills.

Our Company
Delivering world-class drilling services

Headquartered in Al Khobar of Saudi Arabia, ADES owns and operates an elite portfolio of offshore and onshore rigs across the Middle East and Asia. We pride ourselves on providing safe, client-centric services through our world-class operational excellence programs and highly trained workforce. Our resilient business model and efficient cost structure have very well served our growth journey from humble beginnings as a single-string operation two decades ago, to the current industry-leading position as the world’s largest offshore drilling service provider.


We take care of our people, and in turn, our people take care of our valuable clients. At ADES, you are not a number in a list; you are the one who makes a difference each and every day.