About the Role
We are seeking a dedicated professional to provide strong HSSE leadership and promote a culture of safety, quality, and operational excellence. This role encompasses leading and managing all pre-commissioning, commissioning, start-up, and plant acceptance activities to ensure successful project delivery. You will be responsible for coordinating commissioning activities across engineering, procurement, construction, and operations teams while providing leadership, guidance, and direction to commissioning personnel, engineers, and supervisors. You will ensure that commissioning work scopes are effectively planned, managed, and executed in accordance with project objectives, driving project readiness, testing, system completion, and handover activities to achieve key milestones. In addition, you should be prepared to manage a large team across a major program of work.
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Primary Objectives / 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.
- 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.
- Drive project readiness, testing, system completion, and handover activities.
- Manage a large team across a major program of work.
Specific Accountabilities
- Manage the 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.
- 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 of 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.
Moving Forward Together
We aim to energize and empower our people to drive sustainable impact through a values-inspired culture that fosters belonging, connection, and innovation. Our goal is to build a diverse, inclusive, and respectful workplace where everyone feels they belong, can be themselves, and are heard.
We are not only talking about these commitments; we are taking action. We are reskilling our workforce, leveraging transferable skills, and supporting transitions to ensure our team members become experts in today's low carbon energy infrastructure and technology. We provide paths for personal ambition and career success, encouraging you to broaden your horizons and explore diverse opportunities while being part of delivering sustainable change.
