About the Role
This position involves providing strong HSSE leadership and promoting a culture of safety, quality, and operational excellence within the organization. You will take charge of managing all pre-commissioning, commissioning, start-up, and plant acceptance activities, ensuring successful project delivery through effective coordination of commissioning activities across engineering, procurement, construction, and operations teams. Leadership will be key, as you will guide commissioning personnel, engineers, and supervisors, ensuring that work scopes are planned, managed, and executed in alignment with project objectives. Your efforts will drive project readiness, facilitate testing, system completion, and support handover activities to achieve the project's milestones.
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Primary Responsibilities
- Provide strong HSSE leadership and promote a culture of safety, quality, and operational excellence.
- Lead and manage all pre-commissioning, commissioning, start-up, and plant acceptance activities to ensure successful project delivery.
- Coordinate commissioning activities across engineering, procurement, construction, and operations teams.
- Provide leadership, guidance, and direction to commissioning personnel, engineers, and supervisors.
- Ensure commissioning work scopes are effectively planned, managed, and executed in accordance with project objectives.
- Drive project readiness, testing, system completion, and handover activities to achieve project milestones.
Specific Accountabilities
- Manage overall performance of the EPCM commissioning team, including engineers and supervisors.
- Coordinate and oversee all pre-commissioning, commissioning, start-up, and test run activities.
- Ensure commissioning activities are executed safely, efficiently, and in compliance with approved procedures and standards.
- Monitor contractor performance and ensure compliance with project HSSE and quality requirements.
- Ensure effective integration between construction and commissioning activities to support successful project delivery.
- Verify that commissioning personnel are qualified and competent to perform assigned responsibilities.
- Facilitate communication and coordination between project stakeholders to resolve commissioning-related issues.
- Monitor commissioning progress and implement corrective actions to maintain project schedules.
- Support system handover, plant acceptance, and project close-out activities.
Essential Skills and Experience
- Bachelor’s Degree in Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or equivalent.
- Minimum 20 years of experience in major Oil & Gas projects.
- Extensive experience in pre-commissioning, commissioning, start-up, test runs, and plant acceptance activities.
- Proven experience leading and managing multidisciplinary commissioning teams.
- Strong knowledge of commissioning procedures, practices, and industry standards.
- Demonstrated leadership capability in large-scale project environments.
- Strong understanding of engineering, construction, commissioning, and operations interfaces.
- Demonstrated commitment to HSSE and quality management.
- Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and team leadership skills.
- Experience managing EPCM projects.
Benefits and Culture
We are committed to building a diverse, inclusive, and respectful workplace where everyone feels they belong, can be themselves, and are heard. Our focus is on a values-inspired culture that unlocks brilliance through belonging, connection, and innovation. We provide opportunities for reskilling, supporting the transition of our workforce to become experts in today's low carbon energy infrastructure and technology. Join us to broaden your horizons, explore diverse opportunities, and be part of delivering sustainable change.
