Senior Engineer - Commissioning
Role Overview
Senior Engineer – Commissioning, Instrumentation, leading instrumentation commissioning activities and supporting safe project delivery.
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About Petrofac
Petrofac is an international service provider to the energy industry that designs, builds, manages, and maintains infrastructure.
The company states that most office-based roles use a hybrid approach, with employees present in the office at least three days per week.
Position scope
Senior Engineer – Commissioning, Instrumentation, leading instrumentation commissioning activities and supporting safe project delivery.
Commissioning responsibilities
- Review project scope, specifications, drawings, and contractual documents; identify requirements, risks, and constraints.
- Assess commissioning work, resources, and execution constraints; monitor field quality and progress.
- Conduct Job Safety Analysis and toolbox talks, contribute to commissioning bids, and verify construction completion and safety readiness.
- Lead subcontractors in safe pre-commissioning and commissioning activities to schedule; monitor costs and report overruns.
- Review risk assessments and HSE matters with clients and coordinate daily progress updates across project teams.
- Lead instrument commissioning engineers and direct instrument SAT, loop testing, and functional testing.
- Support and resolve technical issues involving DCS, ESD, HIPPS, AMS, and OPC communication.
- Coordinate QA/QC compliance and audit requests; report design failures and discrepancies as lessons learned.
Requirements
- Requires a strong engineering background in instrument field devices and control systems.
- Requires the ability to lead the instrumentation commissioning team and guide technical issues.
- Requires commissioning knowledge covering instrument SAT, loop testing, functional testing, and listed control and safety systems.
- Requires the ability to coordinate subcontractors and support safe, scheduled project execution.
Workplace
- The description requires continual presence in the field for quality and progress oversight.
- The general hybrid office policy does not establish a hybrid arrangement for this field-based commissioning role.
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