Senior Engineer - Commissioning

Petrofac; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 300,000 - 600,000; Full time

Job summary

Petrofac in the UAE is seeking a Senior Commissioning Lead to head a team of commissioning discipline engineers and operators, directing pre-commissioning, commissioning and start-up activities on site. You will review specifications, coordinate with disciplines, manage safety, and ensure on-time delivery within budget while interfacing with clients and subcontractors.

The role requires hands-on field leadership, risk assessments, JSA execution, and daily progress reporting to the commissioning

Qualifications

• Experience leading commissioning teams on large projects.
• Ability to review specifications and drawings to determine scope.
• Experience performing Job Safety Analysis (JSA) and toolbox talks.

Responsibilities

• Identify requirements and scope of work; review specs and drawings and establish applicability to the scope.
• Assess commissioning work and resources; analyze constraints.
• Review contractual documents to identify project requirements and risks.
• Be on-site to guarantee quality and progress of the work.
• Lead subcontractors for safe execution of Pre-Commissioning/Commissioning.
• Monitor costs, control expenses and report overruns to management.
• Attend daily meetings with Commissioning coordinator and team leaders; provide daily reports.
• Coordinate with discipline engineers, supervisors and subcontractors for technical commissioning issues.
• Interface with client and ensure progress of commissioning in line with schedule.
• Ensure testing documents are available and coordinate corrective actions.
• Identify design issues as lessons learned for future projects.
• Electrical: guide engineers, supervise SAT, energisation and testing; support electrical equipment issues.

Skills

Leadership

Commissioning

Field supervision

HSE

Job description

Scope of Responsibilities

Hands on leadership of a team of commissioning discipline engineers and operators in carrying out Pre-Commissioning/Commissioning & Start-up activities. Provide necessary technical information for the other disciplines during the project. Coordinate the work within the budgeted man hour and project schedule..

Primary Duties

Identify requirements and scope of work, review specifications, drawings and other documents of the project and establish applicability to the scope of work.

Carry out a detailed assessment of the commissioning work involved and assess the available resources and possible constraints in its execution.

Ability to review contractual documents and identify project requirements and constraints / risks.

Be continually present on the field to guarantee the quality and progress of the work.

Ability to perform Job Safety Analysis (JSA) and toll box talk to executing the activities.

Provide necessary inputs to commissioning proposals at the bidding stage.

Inspect and ensure all construction activities are completed prior to taking up the system for commissioning and ensure the setting up of safety procedures for the same.

Ensure that all safety and precautionary requirements and procedures are followed during the commissioning.

Ability to lead subcontractor for the safe execution of Pre-Commissioning / Commissioning activities in line with the schedule.

Be aware of cost monitoring, control expenses, and report overruns to management.

Hold regular review of risk assessment/meeting with the client on issues such as HSE.

Attend daily meeting with Commissioning coordinator and team leaders to update the progress and receive daily reports.

Regularly contact discipline engineers and supervisors for solving problems related to project execution work safely.

Regularly communication with Sub-contractor execution team.

Liaise & Coordinate with commissioning engineers & supervisors and provide them support and guidelines for technical commissioning related issues.

Perform any other related duties and responsibilities as and when directed by the Supervisor

Electrical:

Able to guide technical issue to several electrical engineers & supervisors under his responsibility.

Direct the daily activities related to electrical SAT, energisation and functional testing.

Provide technical support and problem resolving on different electrical equipment: transformer, HV/LV Switchboard, motors, relay protection systems.

Interact with QA/QC to ensure compliance with company quality procedures. Coordinate internal and client audit request.

Able to analyze technical issues to initiate an appropriate corrective action and report the same to the direct line management.

Able to interface with client as required, attend internal project meetings, ensure the progress of electrical commissioning discipline in accordance to schedule.

Ensure all testing document are available to the testing team and coordinate with field electrical engineering the any corrective action required on the document.

Identify any design failures or discrepancies that may be lessons learned for future projects and report same via line management.

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