Senior Control Systems Commissioning Engineer

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Senior Control Systems Commissioning Engineer

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KBR is looking for Senior Control Systems Commissioning Engineer to be based in Offshore for 6/3 rotation - Abu Dhabi UAE

Summary: The ideal candidate would be an experienced Control Systems/Instrument Engineer with formal qualifications and would have the following key skills :
- Experience of ADNOC, BP, Total (or a similar organisation)
- A Broad range of experience, at least 10 years, in the design, construction, commissioning and project management in the Control Systems discipline for the Onshore and Offshore Oil & Gas industry.
- The ability to co-ordinate and provide assurance on all Control Systems, installation and completions actitivities.
- Excellent written and verbal communications skills, and the ability to communicate effectively at all levels.
- Experience of multicultural project teams.
- Requires an in-depth knowledge of instrumentation process control and field start up.
- Requires a conceptual knowledge of specialized control systems ( ie compressor controls, batch, continuous, feedback/feedforward, cascade, theory of control)
- Ability to understand and implement a control strategy and application from P&ID instrument drawings.
- Requires an in-depth knowledge of configuration and applications level software.
- Requires an in-depth knowledge of field I/O devices.
- Specific experience in the roles and responsibilities outlined below.

Anticipated Roles and Responsibilities:
- Provide a positive role in promoting good HSE culture.
- Evaluation of safety hazards and preparation of risk assessments.
- Witness and validate all Control System Pre-Commissioning & Commissioning activities.
- Witness and validate Control Systems Commissioning at Yard, Offshore & Onshore locations.
- Generate discipline status indices by system.
- Provide input to planning team to establish commissioning network, priorities, durations and look ahead schedules.
- Provide input into man-hour estimates for all work to be carried out and provide input to the reporting system.
- Identification of any areas of workscope minimisation during the course of the project.
- Review Commissioning & start up spares including Vendor spare parts and consumable list.
- Identification of materials, tools & test equipment required for commissioning.
- Review vendor packages for compliance with specifications witness running tests and final factory acceptance.
- Identification of temporary equipment required for commissioning of the facility Systems and liaison with suppliers of temporary equipment.
- Assist installation contractor & monitor execution of work to achieve mechanical completion.
- Acceptance of Mechanically Complete sub-systems from the fabricator including punch out, clearance and handover.
- Interface with Engineering support personnel on technical matters.
- Respond to site queries raised by Construction Contractor regarding Control Systems issues
- Provide technical support to the installation construction supervisers.
- Witness the installation of all control cabinets including suppliers panels.
- Witness installation of ICSS System and subsequent power up.
- Witness installation, splicing and testing of fibre optic cables systems.
- Witness installation and testing of all data highway cables.
- Witness installation of telecommunications equipment & LAN/WAN networks & subsequent power up.

Requirements

Production of Commissioning Procedures.
- Develop a software control procedure for all programmable systems.
- Responsible for the management and backup of software.
- Identify / arrange & supervise supplier representatives to assist commissioning.
- Carry out Site Acceptance Test of ICSS.
- Witness testing software configuration against control narratives.
- Witness testing of graphic linking.
- Validate data base management.
- Ensure correct configuration of serial link data between ICSS & suppliers control systems & maintain an As-Built register of Bit Maps.
- Witness control loop and system application tuning.
- Witness and validate Cause & Effect logic testing of ICSS.
- Validate Commission telecommunications system including GA/PA & CCTV systems.
- Witness Commission Control Building office LAN/WAN & networking system.
- Provide assistance to operations during start up.

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