CONSTRUCTION PROJECT FRONT-END SPECIALIST AT AMAIDEN ENERGY NIGERIA LIMITED | FRONT-END SPECIALIST JOBS IN RIVERS

About Company:

Amaiden Energy Nigeria Limited (formerly Moody International Nigeria Limited) was established in 1996 as a partnership between Moody International Group and Nigerian investors. Since commencing operations in March 1997 the company continues to grow and exerts its presence in numerous Projects in the Nigeria Oil and Gas Industry.

Job Description:

• This role strengthens the organization’s front-end development engine by driving rigorous early-stage project maturation.
• The associate will orchestrate structured opportunity framing, technical and commercial evaluation, and strategic alignment for offshore and onshore venture spaces.
• The mandate centers on shaping opportunity premises, validating feasibility, optimizing economics, and securing investment-ready outcomes.

Key Responsibilities
Front-End Planning & Concept Framings:

• Lead front-end development (FEL 0–1) activities for emerging opportunities.
• Develop project premises, framing documents, strategic options, and boundary conditions.
• Coordinate cross-functional review cycles to validate technical contours, commercial logic, and execution pathways.
• Lead early-stage risk and opportunity assessments to shape development direction.

Technical & Commercial Evaluation (Offshore & Onshore Scope):

• Conduct conceptual technical evaluations, engineering scoping, and feasibility assessments.
• Partners with discipline leads to frame concept alternatives, cost drivers, execution and constructability considerations.
• Perform first-pass economic assessments including value modelling, capex/opex screening, breakeven analysis, and sensitivities.
• Support early regulatory screening and sustainability considerations.

Strategy, Funding & Business Case Development:

• Develop investment rationale, funding strategy options, and commercialization pathways.
• Support structuring of partnerships, JV opportunities, and market entry strategies.
• Build business case packages for gate reviews, leadership engagement, and external partner alignment.
• Benchmark global trends, technology readiness, and competitiveness.

Project Maturation & Stage-Gate Readiness:

• Drive project maturation from ideation to concept-select stage.
• Maintain project documentation, risk registers, development paths, and decision logs.
• Track milestones, risks, and interdependencies across technical and commercial workstreams.
• Ensure cross-functional integration in early-stage project delivery.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Geosciences, Economics, Business, or related field; Master’s an advantage.
• 5 - 10 years’ experience in FEL, business development, or early-stage project maturation.
• Strong technical and commercial understanding of offshore/onshore energy assets.
• Experience within oil & gas value chains.

Key Competencies:

• FEL and project framing expertise
• Technical-commercial integration capability
• Strong analytical and strategic thinking
• Cross-functional stakeholder engagement
• Executive communication and synthesis skills
• Agile and solution-oriented mindset.

Salary

Application Closing Date: 31st March, 2026

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