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Role
We are working with a Major Oil & Gas operator to source for
Head of Commissioning (Utilities) specialising in Onshore LNG Projects. This is a long-term contract role working on a residential basis 6-days per week / 10 hours per day. Please see details below:
Title
: Head of Commissioning (Utilities) – LNG Project
Start Date: Negotiable (typically within 1 month notice)
Duration: 36 months (potential for extension)
Location: Onshore (site based)
Working Schedule: 6-days per week / 10 hours per day
Job Purpose
Lead the team in planning and executing all commissioning activities, ensuring the EPC contractor adheres to the project schedule, safety standards, and start-up sequences. Manage day-to-day coordination and reporting to resolve
technical issues and consistently meet all contractual milestones.
Key Accountabilities
- Reports to Commissioning Manager.
- Responsible for overseeing the overall pre-commissioning & commissioning activities and works for the EPC 1 Contract [LNG Plant], to ensure EPC-1 Contractor delivery of all aspects related to preparation, coordination, planning and execution of the pre-commissioning and commissioning activities in accordance with the Project Work Time Schedule.
- Provide review and approval of the deliverables prepared by the EPC-1 Contractor, focusing on critical - class 1 deliverables.
- Participate to engineering (Plot Plans, HAZOP, SIL assessment, 3D Model) and Constructability Reviews that are essential for a proper planning and execution of the pre-commissioning and commissioning activities and works.
- Participate to factory acceptance tests of critical packages and equipment.
- Provide concise but comprehensive weekly and monthly reporting to the Project Controls Division Manager, including actions and mitigations as applicable.
- Provide leadership to his team to drive decisions for multi-discipline issues. Drive alignment and decision making between the various stakeholders.
- Anticipate technical issues, changes in the work, delays and potential claims from the EPC-1 Contractor to the EPC-1 Project Manager and EPC-1 Project Division Manager.
- Understand interdisciplinary dependencies to be able to make judgements on overall commissioning decisions having multi-disciplines impacts. Applies risk management techniques to facilitate decision making.
- Identify SIMOPS with the EPC-1 Contractor, early enough during the Project Execution Phase to provide proper planning and safe execution at site.
Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in engineering.
Knowledge And/or Experience
- 15 years experience in various project phases such as engineering, procurement, and construction, within large-scale commissioning projects in the oil and gas industry, including 5 years of experience in a supervisory role, including acting roles, or oversight of service/vendor personnel.
- Strong leadership skills, experience leading multi-discipline teams, EPC Contractors working in Joint Venture and working closely with operations and end-users.
- Familiar and conversant with systemization, system completion database, pre-commissioning and commissioning procedures, including SIMOPS.
- Proven experience with Vendors operating in the LNG industry such as but not limited to: main refrigeration compressors, liquefaction equipment, power generation, utilities, cryogenic pumps, control systems.
- Proven experience with commissioning of Process Licensed Units.
- Experience with pre-commissioning and commissioning of large utility systems including: steam, boiler feedwater, large cooling water systems, cooling towers, desalination plant, air and nitrogen generation and distribution systems.
Technical And Business Skills
- Technical background as a discipline engineer and field precommissioning and commissioning execution experience.
- Good teamwork and facilitation skills.
- Good analytical, organisational and problem solving skills.
- Risk management experience.
- Capability to take work load and manage priorities.
