Pre-Commissioning Supervisor (GHE)

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Job Purpose

• Responsible for overseeing Pre-Commissioning & Commissioning activities for assigned Areas to ensure EPC Contractor and Subcontractor executes instrumentation activities and delivers systems and subsystems as per agreed planning until completion.
• Ensures PC&C engineering (preparation), such as systemization, pre-commissioning and commissioning planning, database set-up in coordination with other stakeholder disciplines and company and contractor/subcontractor departments, i.e., planning. Provides clear guidance to the EPC Contractor and facilitates resolution of pre-comm/comm issues to meet project objectives and milestones.
  
  

Reporting and Relationships

Reports to Pre commissioning Manager

Internal

• Regular interface and collaboration with Leads of PC&C and Engineering, Process, I&C, Electrical, Machinery, Civil/Structural, Loss Prevention, Construction and Quality. Interactions with Interface sections, Project Engineers, and OES within the AP Project organisation.
• Frequent contact with Construction, Quality, Operations, Safety/Environment, and AP Engineering departments as required.
  
  

External

• Regular interaction with EPC PC&C Contractor, Vendors, Subcontractors, and engineering/specialist consultants.
• As required engagement with AP/asset owner’s representatives.
  
  

Job Context & Major Challenge(s)

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• This position is responsible to ensure all planning and execution activities associated with the pre-comm/comm of assigned area instrumentation is achieved by the EPC contractor, including third parties such as vendors, consultants, sub-contractors etc., and are executed to AP Project’s specifications and AP requirements.
• Major challenges for this role include (1) effectively guide EPC contractor, including vendors and subcontractors and pre-comm/comm team to produce timely deliverables up to start-up. (2) maintaining constructive working relationship with EPC contractor, including vendors and subcontractors to ensure delivery and execution of pre-comm/comm work scope in accordance with project requirements and (3) maintaining relationships with stakeholders (e.g., Operations, quality, engineering, construction) to ensure alignment of systems completions execution.
• Delivering of the scope of work for the assigned area instrumentation to achieve project expectations, in particular design and construction of large facilities.
  
  

Safety Health & Environment

• Ensure all activities are undertaken in compliance with Company Safety, Health and Environment and Quality policies, regulations, and standards.
  
  

Key Job Accountabilities

Provides Instrument pre-comm/comm expertise, to lead safe execution of the instrument Pre-Comm and Commissioning scope of work in accordance with project deliverables and execution schedule. Demonstrate leadership in planning and execution driving EPC contractor to deliver as per project milestones.

• Review, approve Instrument Pre-Comm/Comm check sheets, Construction Work Packages, and provide supervision of pre-comm/comm scope of work by EPC contractor, supports contractor by helping to address gaps and coordination with operations and other disciplines within CPY team.
• Maintains close liaison with members of Engineering, quality, construction, operations Teams and accountable for ensuring execution of work is technically aligned in compliance with project objectives, Instrument specification and industry best practices.
• Guides EPC Contractor's Instrument pre-comm/comm activities and validating contracts, including vendors, subcontractor resources, personnel qualifications, usage of appropriate tools; adherence to project objectives, requirements, specifications, and verification processes. Provide assurance of CTR/SCTR adhere to Project SHES procedures.
• Assesses and validates EPC Contractor’s procedures for SIMOPS, Work under Permit, Partial Handover requirements and perform progress measurement / reporting to drive assigned pre-commissioning/commissioning activities. Lead punch close out activities and handovers.
• Manages the Instrument discipline deliverables updates/relines and support field engineering where needed in support of pre-comm/comm activities. Where needed, develop short term mitigation plans to achieve intermediate milestones and birding scope for final completions.
• Responsible for following up and assuring schedule and related milestones are achieved, provides data (rundown curves, charts, graphs), identify material & skills gaps, develop recovery plans to address any schedule delays if any.
• Accountable for knowledge of and sharing previous lessons learned, capturing, and communicating current lessons learned to support review teams and future projects.
• Review, update and amend procedures and specifications to ensure that all pre-comm/comm references are up to date and relevant.
• Develop plan where Instrument needs to be re-ranged or replaced to support pre-start-up activities.
  
  

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in engineering or equivalent
  
  

BMS / Flare Panels and speciality instruments associated with large compressors.

• Good understanding of International (ISA/IEC) Standards and best practices in the areas of Instrumentation installations.
• Demonstrated experience of using Instrument calibration tools and instrument configuration set-ups.
• Expertise in systemization, completions database, development of instrumentation pre-comm/comm procedures.
• Strong leadership skills, experience leading contractor teams.
• Experience with Smart Completions database use and set-up desirable.
  
  

Technical and Business Skills

• Excellent written and oral English skills.
• Strong organisational, planning and coordination skills.
• Strong technical, prioritisation and management skills.
• Good communication, influencing and interface skills.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office suite of software programs, etc.
  
  

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