Principal Engineer - Commissioning
Project Position: Principal Engineer - Commissioning-Process Scope Of Responsibilities Lead a team of commissioning engineers in carrying out Pre-Commissioning/Commissioning & Start-up activities.
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Scope Of Responsibilities
Lead a team of commissioning engineers 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.
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.
Responsible to discussed and get the approval of Pre-Commissioning, Commissioning and Operations procedures from clients.
Ability to lead subcontractor for the safe execution of Pre-Commissioning / Commissioning activities in line with the schedule.
Manages risk as assigned by commissioning manager, project management and/or site management by reviewing risk on a regular basis.
Hold regular review of risk assessment/meeting with the client on issues such as HSE.
Be aware of cost monitoring, control expenses, and report overruns to management.
Be continually present on the field to guarantee the quality and progress of the work.
Lead commissioning & start-up multi-disciplinary team building project execution.
Clear punch list items as necessary after checking at site.
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 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
Process
Review project design documents.
Ability to identify design failures and / or discrepancies.Ability to perform & guide in Factory & Site Acceptance test and performance test.Ability to produce integrated start-up schedules.Ability to commission and start-up systems / equipment safely and reached stable conditions.Attend and provide input at P&ID review, HAZOP & HAZID review.Able to monitor and lead DCS operations such as alarm trips, logic, interlocks, permissive, overrides etc.
Able to monitor and control temperatures/pressures/levels/flow of operating plant
Ability to produce plans and specific method statements including P&ID mark ups for activities related to leak testing, chemical cleaning, oil flushing, air blowing, catalyst loading, operational test procedures, start-up procedures etc.Ability to conduct P&ID line walks, equipment internals inspections and vendor packages readiness for Commissioning and Operation.
Participate in HAZOP meeting with client and representative of the other engineering disciplines.
Trouble shooting of equipment operation, coordination required to perform dynamic test and performance test for various systems with vendors.
Job Details
Role Level: Not Applicable Work Type: Full-Time Country: United Arab Emirates City: Abu Dhabi Company Website: http://www.petrofac.com Job Function: Information Technology (IT) Company Industry/
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