Senior Engineer - Commissioning

Job description / Role

Petrofac overview

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

• 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/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 execute 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/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/meeting with the client on issues such as HSE.
• Attend daily meeting 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.
• Regularly communicate with sub-contractor 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.
• Able to guide technical issues to several electrical engineers and supervisors under his responsibility.
• Direct the daily activities related to electrical SAT, energisation and functional testing.
• Provide technical support and problem resolving on different electrical equipment: transformer, HV/LV switchboard, motors, relay protection systems.
• Interact with QA/QC to ensure compliance with company quality procedures. Coordinate internal and client audit requests.
• Able to analyze technical issues to initiate an appropriate corrective action and report the same to the direct line management.
• Able to interface with client as required, attend internal project meetings, ensure the progress of electrical commissioning discipline in accordance to schedule.
• Ensure all testing documents are available to the testing team and coordinate with field electrical engineering any corrective action required on the document.
• Identify any design failures or discrepancies that may be lessons learned for future projects and report same via line management.

Technical requirements - process

• Review project design documents.
• Ability to identify design failures and/or discrepancies.
• Ability to perform factory and site acceptance test and performance test.
• Ability to produce integrated start-up schedules.
• Ability to commission and start-up systems/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, 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 meeting with client and representative of the other engineering disciplines.

About the Company

Petrofac is an international provider of facilities solutions to the oil & gas production and processing industries.

Petrofac delivers services through seven business units: Engineering & Construction, Engineering & Construction Ventures, Engineering Services, Offshore Engineering & Operations, Training, Production Solutions and Energy Developments.

Through these businesses, Petrofac designs and builds oil & gas facilities; operates, maintains and manages facilities and trains personnel; enhances production; and, where it can leverage its service capability, develops and co-invests in upstream and infrastructure projects.

Petrofac’s range of services meets its customers’ needs across the full life cycle of oil & gas assets.