- Lead the team in planning and executing all commissioning activities, ensuring the 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.
- Responsible for overseeing the overall pre-commissioning & commissioning activities and works for the Contract, to ensure 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 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 Contractor to the Project Manager and 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 Contractor, early enough during the Project Execution Phase to provide proper planning and safe execution at site.
- Bachelor Degree in Applied Sciences or Engineering.
- 10 years experience in various project phases such as engineering, procurement, and construction, within large-scale commissioning projects in the oil and gas industry, including 2 years of experience in a supervisory role, including acting roles, or oversight of service/vendor personnel.
- Strong leadership skills, experience leading multi-discipline teams, 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 background as a discipline engineer and field pre-commissioning and commissioning execution experience.