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Job description / Role
Client require an experienced MEP Commissioning Manager to join the team to complete an iconic building project in Dubai.
Client are a Global First Tier Contractor who specialise in Iconic/High-rise/Tower/Hotel/Mall/Residential & Commercial Building Projects.
Middle East General Contractor of the Year 2015.
General Duties:
- Liaison with designers to establish or clarify the design philosophy
- Obtaining relevant design information from designers
- Agreeing commissioning methods and tolerances with designers
- Providing input to the commissioning specification
- Liaison with main, managing and services contractor’s planning departments
- Assisting with certification of variations, via the lead contractor
- Chairing and attending site progress, technical and commissioning meetings as necessary
- Producing interim and stage progress reports
- Commenting on services contractor’s quality plans with regard to commissioning
- Providing technical advice on commissioning and testing
- Advising on alternatives to proposed commissioning methods
- Obtaining services specifications, drawings, standards, codes and guides relevant to commissioning
Design and pre-installation duties:
- Carrying out design commissionability appraisals at outline proposals and detailed design stages.
- Liaising with designer and contractor to establish detailed information on the BMS and controls works.
- Developing with BMS/controls specialist and designer, a logic network for the off-site proving, by simulation, of software; agreeing mnemonics and graphics
- Producing, with contractors’ input, co-ordinated commissioning logic networks, method statements and programmes.
- Commenting on contractors’ working drawings and the adequacy of systems for commissioning.
- Assisting in the monitoring of plant procurement and testing.
- Agreeing works test procedures.
- Advising on the provision of system flushing and chemical cleaning facilities.
- Ensuring that fully co-ordinated block wiring diagrams are produced which fully reflect the total integration of all power and control wiring systems.
- Advising on the provision of system flushing and chemical cleaning facilities
- Witnessing works testing.
Installation and commissioning duties:
- Monitoring and updating of the commissioning program.
- Checking that certified equipment data supplied by contractors complies with design data, for example air and water pressure losses, fan and pump curves and filter and strainer grading.
- Providing a watching brief during installation
- Witnessing pre-commissioning activities
- Agreeing pro forma documentation for record sheets, etc
- Ensuring that relevant gas, air and fluid pressure testing is being carried out systematically
- Carrying out regular site inspections of services installations and stores of materials to ensure that required standards of cleanliness and protection are being maintained
- Witnessing and collating on and off-site plant proving tests
- Establishing start-up and operating procedures
- Carrying out pre-commissioning inspections
- Approving contractors’ flushing and cleaning method statements and program, witnessing the results of flushing & cleaning of pipework & ductwork.
- Monitoring of site progress against program.
- Checking and agreeing a set of test instrumentation
Commissioning and testing stage duties:
- Checking that agreed start up procedures are being adhered to.
- Witnessing of test results, demonstrations and acceptance tests
- Organising demonstrations of plant and system operating procedures with the end user’s engineering representative
- Ensuring that all plant and systems are recorded including reference to an agreed labelling system
- Co-ordinating and technically supervising commissioning and testing procedures
- Establishing emergency procedures plant close-down and witnessing their demonstration
- Witnessing partial load testing and the use of simulators on the BMS for out-of-season conditions
- Demonstrating the operation of the BMS to the designer’s specified requirements including physical testing of all safety interlocks
- Witnessing the demonstration of specified acoustic tests
- Signing off completed systems to clients and end users using standard handover documentation.
- Managing the contractors’ provision of specified support services such as false loads, safe power supplies and proven interlocks
- Witnessing plant reliability tests
Completion and post-handover stage duties:
- Providing technical input to the O&M manuals and associated record drawings
- Assisting the client’s or end user’s engineering representative to establish planned preventative maintenance based on the designer’s recommendations
- Planning and managing the transfer of the building services from contractor to the end user’s representatives
- Establishing a regime of plant performance monitoring during the defects liability period
- Controlling the client familiarisation and training package
- Managing the M&E snagging and resolution of defects
- Resolving issues that arise after handover by maintaining a presence on site and liaising between the various parties
- Providing vital feedback to the project team on the lessons learned
Requirements
- Bachelors or Diploma in Mechanical/ Electrical Engineering (building services)
- Age 40yrs+
- Dynamic and knowledgeable of engineering standards and installation practices for this region.
- Have 10yrs+ experience in Commissioning Management
- Experience in the GCC region is an advantage
About the Company
Mission:
To establish a 'Best practise' for the recruitment industry in the Middle East.