HR Management for Oil and Gas Managers and Supervisors

Why Select this Training Course? 

Any nation’s oil and gas reserve is a crucial asset for survival. The success of the oil and gas industry plays a key role in such a nation’s economy. However, simply possessing these resources does not make a nation powerful and prosperous. More importantly, managing these resources by qualified personnel in the industry helps to determine how successful and developed such a nation could be.

The Rcademy HR Management for Oil and Gas Managers and Supervisors course is curated to provide participants with vital knowledge and skills for human resource management in the oil and gas industry. It offers attendees the opportunity to learn how to become successful oil and gas managers and supervisors and how to deal with the needs of employees and staff within the organisation. Participants will study the oil and gas business from the viewpoint of the entire value chain, evaluating oil and gas human resource management strategies and the unique challenges facing the present-day energy industry.

What is the Role of the HR in the Energy Industry?

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The oil and gas industry is one of the most vital sectors in the economy of any nation. As a key player in the global energy market, it offers many job opportunities for qualified personnel. The human resource department is key in fostering and sustaining business growth. The HR department is responsible for recruiting qualified talents and retaining and developing personnel. They are also tasked with bringing in and retaining skilled workers.

The roles of the human resource department in the oil and gas industry include:

1. Finding and recruiting qualified oil and gas personnel
2. Managing the performance of members within their team
3. Organising continuing development programmes for members
4. Bridging the talent gap
5. Nurturing future industry leaders

What are the HR Challenges Facing the Oil and Gas Industry?

Workers are part of the most valuable assets in the oil and gas industry. They play a key role in the success of this industry, and the energy sector can only prosper and expand if capable personnel keep working in it. The human resource department is the cornerstone of any strong team of employees in the energy industry. In exercising its functions, the HR department undertakes various roles and responsibilities within the energy sector, ranging from recruiting and managing workers.

As the industry keeps evolving, the HR department has come to be plagued with various challenges, such as:

• Slow hiring time: One of the challenges HR departments face in the energy sector is filling energy positions in times of vacancy. The oil and gas industry has one of the longest hiring window and interview processes. This is because qualified and top candidates in the field are not always on the market for long. Therefore, organisations have to spend much time interviewing and hiring recruits.
• Maintaining a diverse workforce: Another challenge the HR department faces in the energy sector is diversity; as one of the industries mostly led by men, the energy industry faces the challenge of having a more diverse gender and ethnic makeup.
• Retaining employees: Due to the high competitiveness in the oil and gas sector, companies constantly compete for qualified personnel in a pool of limited talents. HR departments struggle to keep their staff from being lured away by competitors offering better benefits and remunerations.

Who Should Attend?

This training course is designed for a wide range of professionals within the HR department of the oil and gas sector industry. These individuals in the energy sector should take the course:

• Team leads and professionals responsible for creating an effective, healthy and productive workplace for team members to execute ideas and implement strategies.
• Human resources managers responsible for managing and directing the administrative functions in an organisation.
• Strategy managerscharged with developing and implementing business visions and agenda.
• HR administratorstasked with organising and maintaining personnel records of employees, preparing HR documents and preserving the internal HR database.
• Maintenance supervisorsresponsible for overseeing the safe and effective operations of refinery equipment.
• Operations Managers.
• HR advisorscharged with counselling the organisation on actions and plans to be taken.

What are the Course Objectives? 

The Rcademy HR Management for Oil and Gas Managers and Supervisors course will assist candidates in attaining the following objectives:

• Learn about employee recruitment, reward and retention in the oil and gas industry
• Recognise ways to identify risks and execute controls
• Design a plan to transform strategic requirements into HR objectives
• Identify best practices in managing people in the oil and gas industry
• Learn how to link and align operational and strategic management

How will this Course be Presented? 

This training course is participant-based and specially curated to meet their expectations while growing their skills and knowledge. Different techniques and approaches that ensure active learning by participants will be employed to deliver the training. The course will be delivered by experts in the field with years of practice and experience. The modules are designed from extensive and in-depth research on the subject.

The Rcademy HR Management for Oil and Gas Managers and Supervisors offers theoretical and practical learning by providing lecture notes, slides on the subject, real-life scenarios, and lecture notes. Participants will partake in presentations, quizzes, seminar workshops, and constant feedback on the lessons taught to gauge their satisfaction.

What are the Topics Covered in this Course?

Module 1: Human Resource Management and Human Capital

• Understanding human capital
• Human capital in the oil, gas and petrochemical industry
• The evolution of strategic HR
• The HR as a strategic partner
• Personal qualities required of HR in the energy sector
• Qualifications and professional study

Module 2: Safety, Supervisions and Operations

• SIMOPS in the oil and gas industry
• Utilities
• Monitoring of towers
• Safety challenges in SIMOPS
• Transportation challenges

Module 3: Performance Management and Reward

• Performance management in the energy industry
• Efficient use of feedback
• Implementing total reward
• Understanding compensation and benefits
• Utilising performance appraisal

Module 4: Safety Culture in the Oil and Gas Industry I – Risks

• Safety engineering
• Process safety
• Occupational safety
• Safety management system
• Granular control
• Climate and natural disasters
• Gas leak
• Explosions
• Fire outbreak
• Transportation accidents
• Terrorism

Module 5: Safety Culture in the Oil and Gas Industry II – Practices

• Leadership and teamwork: leading by example
• Safety values communication and ensuring workplace familiarity
• Safety performance and adhering to safety precautions rules
• Use of colour-coding and labellings
• Fostering workplace harmony
• Dealing with conflict and aggression
• Coping with criticism
• BATNA and WATNA

Module 6: Safety Culture in the Oil and Gas Industry III – Solution

• POB sophistication
• Equipment monitoring using the Internet of Things
• Advanced warning techniques
• GPS/GNSS-based shipping
• Seismic sensors usage
• Weather forecasts
• Automating safety
• Valve shutoffs automation
• Fire door sensors
• Self-sealing valves and pipe insulation
• Smartphones alarm system
• Regular machine maintenance
• Continous housekeeping
• Use of IVMS — In-Vehicle Monitoring System
• Offsite support systems such as fast access to rapid response team
• Maintaining good relationships with local responders

Module 7: People Resourcing in the Oil and Gas Industry

• Appropriate method of recruitment
• Recruiting as a two-way process
• Use of psychological testing in recruitment
• Specialist resourcing needs of oil and gas employees

Recruitment trends

• Diversity, inclusion, equity v competency
• Increase in remote work demands
• Continuous shift towards soft skills
• Digital/automated recruitment

Recruitment challenges

• Scarcity of skilled workers
• Demographic challenges: attracting younger skilled workers
• ESG responsibility v. employee value proposition

Module 8: Developing Employees in the Oil and Gas Industry

• HES&S training
• The training cycles
• Fostering blended-learning method
• The talent management model
• Utilising andragogy for adult education
• Evaluating training effectiveness using cost-benefit analysis and ROI

Module 9: Energy and Financial Risk Management

• Risk and opportunity analysis
• Inflation and time value of money
• Internal rate of return
• Discounted cash flow and time-value considerations
• The nonlinearity and complexity of uncertainty
• Overview of energy risk management
• Risks in trading energy commodities

Module 10: Challenges Facing the Energy Industry

• Emissions and environmental effects
• Carbon capture and sequestration
• Indigenous emissions
• Greenhouse emissions
• Enhancing performance to ensure asset valorisation
• Lowering costs to remain competitive
• Improving environmental foot to meet global standards