Senior Engineer - Commissioning

About Petrofac

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.

Are you ready to bring the right energy to Petrofac and help us deliver a better future for everyone?

Scope of Responsibilities

Hands on leadership of a team of commissioning discipline engineers and operators in carrying out pre-commissioning, commissioning and 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 or risks.
• Be continually present on the field to guarantee the quality and progress of the work.
• Ability to perform Job Safety Analysis (JSA) and toolbox talk to executing the activities.
• 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.
• Ability to lead subcontractor for the safe execution of pre-commissioning and commissioning activities in line with the schedule.
• Be aware of cost monitoring, control expenses, and report overruns to management.
• Hold regular review of risk assessment and meetings with the client on issues such as HSE.
• Attend daily meetings with commissioning coordinator and team leaders to update the progress and receive daily reports.
• Regularly contact discipline engineers and supervisors for solving problems related to project execution work safely.
• Regular communication with subcontractor execution team.
• Liaise and coordinate with commissioning engineers and supervisors 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 factory and site acceptance tests and performance tests.
• Ability to produce integrated start-up schedules.
• Ability to commission and start-up systems or equipment safely and reach stable conditions.
• Attend and provide input at P&ID review, HAZOP and 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, and 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 meetings with client and representatives of the other engineering disciplines.