Principal Engineer - Commissioning

Scope of responsibilities

Lead a team of commissioning engineers in carrying out pre-commissioning/commissioning and start-up activities. Provide necessary technical information for the other disciplines during the project. Coordinate the work within the budgeted man hours and project schedule.

Primary duties

• 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.
• 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.
• Responsible to discuss and get the approval of pre-commissioning, commissioning, and operations procedures from clients.
• Ability to lead subcontractors for the safe execution of pre-commissioning/commissioning activities in line with the schedule.
• Manage risk as assigned by commissioning manager, project management, and/or site management by reviewing risk on a regular basis.
• Hold regular review of risk assessment/meeting with the client on issues such as HSE.
• Be aware of cost monitoring, control expenses, and report overruns to management.
• Be continually present on the field to guarantee the quality and progress of the work.
• Lead commissioning and start-up multi-disciplinary team building project execution.
• Clear punch list items as necessary after checking at site.
• 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 provide them support and guidelines for technical commissioning related issues.
• Perform any other related duties and responsibilities as and when directed by the supervisor.
• Lead the entire electrical commissioning team and be responsible for all electrical commissioning phases and have a strong engineering background in electrical field devices and control systems.
• Able to manage the entire electrical commissioning team and ability to organize and run the team (engineers, supervisors, technicians).
• 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 and resolve to initiate an appropriate corrective action and report the same to the direct line management.
• Responsible to interface with client as required, attend internal project meetings, ensure the progress of electrical commissioning discipline in accordance with schedule.

Additional information

Not specified.