Head of Commissioning

Category; Qatar; On-site; QAR 700,000 - 1,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Industry Aerial Robotics and Drone Services seeks a Senior Commissioning Lead with extensive experience in oil and gas projects to steer commissioning across all phases from engineering through startup and handover. The role requires leadership of multidisciplinary teams, rigorous review of FATs and SATs, and ensuring alignment with project specs and safety standards.

You will coordinate interfaces between Engineering, Construction, and Operations while upholding governance and industry best

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Applied Sciences or Engineering.
• 10 years' experience in various project phases (engineering, procurement, construction).
• Experience in senior commissioning roles for large contracts (greenfield, brownfield).
• Knowledge of discipline design standards, safety criteria, offshore facilities and systems completion.

Responsibilities

• Manage and direct commissioning phases and multidisciplinary teams through engineering, construction, pre-commissioning, commissioning, startup and handover.
• Direct commissioning activities across project phases to ensure safe, compliant delivery.
• Review commissioning strategies, procedures, FATs/SATs, and testing to confirm compliance with specs and requirements.
• Determine and implement commissioning priorities, resources and strategies to meet milestones and readiness.

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Applied Sciences or Engineering

Job description

Industry Aerial Robotics and Drone Services

• Manage and direct delivery of all aspects of the commissioning phases and multidisciplinary commissioning teams, providing leadership, guidance and support to the management team throughout engineering, construction, pre-commissioning, commissioning, startup and operational handover.
• Direct commissioning activities across all project phases to ensure safe, efficient and compliant delivery of engineering, pre-commissioning, commissioning, startup and operational handover.
• Review and evaluate contractor commissioning strategies, procedures, technical reports, execution methodologies and commissioning deliverables to ensure compliance with project specifications, contractual obligations and LNG requirements.
• Determine and implement commissioning priorities, execution strategies and resource requirements to support achievement of project milestones and operational readiness objectives.
• Coordinate commissioning interfaces between Engineering, Construction, Systems Completions, Operations, contractors, vendors and specialist service providers to ensure effective project execution.
• Assess and validate contractor commissioning capability, organizational structure, manpower loading and specialist vendor resources, providing recommendations to optimize commissioning performance and project delivery.
• Ensure delivery of critical commissioning milestones including Systemization, Ready on Site (ROS), Mechanical Completion (MC), Ready for Commissioning (RFC), Ready for Startup (RFSU), startup, performance testing and operational handover.
• Review and validate Factory Acceptance Tests (FATs), Site Acceptance Tests (SATs), package testing, integrated systems testing and critical commissioning activities to confirm compliance with approved procedures, technical specifications and project requirements.
• Evaluate commissioning progress, systems completion status, preservation activities, startup readiness and commission performance reporting to identify risks, determine corrective actions and ensure operational readiness.
• Represent the Commissioning function during project reviews, technical meetings, management reviews, audits and stakeholder engagements, ensuring commissioning objectives, risks and priorities are effectively communicated.
• Uphold commissioning governance, company standards and industry best practices, ensuring the safe, efficient and compliant transition of facilities from project execution to Operations.
• Bachelors Degree in Applied Sciences or Engineering.
• 10 years' experience in various project phases such as engineering, procurement, and construction, within large-scale commissioning projects in the oil and gas industry, including 2 years of experience in a supervisory role, including acting roles, or oversight of service/vendor personnel.
• In depth knowledge of discipline design standards, specifications, codes, appropriate safety criteria, offshore facilities and discipline design, construction, operations and engineering administration.
• Knowledge and experience in discipline commissioning delivery processes and associated project phases, familiar with completions walkdowns and Pre-Startup Safety Reviews.
• Experience in a senior commissioning role for large contracts, with strong commissioning / technical skills, greenfield, brownfield projects and simultaneous operations (SIMOPS).
• Experience in project completions and project systemization, including check sheet development, check sheet allocation, writing of pre-commissioning / commissioning documents such as commissioning procedures and method statements.
• Experience with Oil & Gas companies, Contractors, or Service Companies.
• Knowledge in projects execution, engineering, operations, pre-commissioning, commissioning and systems completion.