Principal Engineer - Commissioning
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Petrofac is a leading international service provider to the energy industry, with a diverse client portfolio including many of the world’s leading energy companies.
We design, build, manage and maintain infrastructure for our clients.
We recruit, reward, and develop our people based on merit regardless of race, nationality, religion, gender, age, sexual orientation, marital status or disability.
We value our people and treat everyone who works for or with Petrofac fairly and without discrimination.
The world is re-thinking its energy supply and energy security needs; planning for a phased transition to alternative energy sources.
We are here to help our clients meet these evolving energy needs.
This is an exciting time to join us on this journey.
We support flexible working requests and have adopted a hybrid approach for most of our office-based roles.
We ask employees to be present in the office at least three days per week.
Are you ready to bring the right energy to Petrofac and help us deliver a better future for everyone?
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.
2.1 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.
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