TEAM LEADER (VDU)

Job description

🚨 WE ARE HIRING | TEAM LEADER (VDU)

Atina Oil Company is seeking a highly experienced and motivated Team Leader (VDU) to join our Refinery Operations Team in Erbil, Iraq.

🔹 Key Responsibilities

• Lead and supervise the daily operations of the Vacuum Distillation Unit (VDU).
• Ensure safe, reliable, and efficient refinery operations.
• Monitor process performance and optimize unit productivity.
• Coordinate with Maintenance, Laboratory, and other operational departments.
• Ensure compliance with all HSE policies, procedures, and refinery standards.
• Lead, train, and support operators to achieve operational excellence.
• Analyze operational issues and implement corrective actions to maintain continuous plant performance.
• Prepare operational reports and communicate unit performance to management.

🔹 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering, Petroleum Engineering, or a related field.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in refinery operations, preferably with hands-on experience in Vacuum Distillation Units (VDU).
• Strong leadership and team-management skills.
• Excellent understanding of refinery processes and operating procedures.
• Proven ability to identify, troubleshoot, and resolve refinery operational problems, process upsets, and equipment-related issues.
• Ability to work under pressure and make sound operational decisions.
• Strong communication, reporting, and problem-solving skills.

📍 Location: Erbil, Iraq

If you have the technical expertise and leadership skills to support safe, reliable, and efficient refinery operations, we encourage you to apply.

📩 How to Apply:
Please send your CV to:

admin@atinaoil.com

📌 Email Subject: Application – Team Leader

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.