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 hour 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 subcontractor 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.
Process
- Review project design documents.
- Ability to identify design failures and/or discrepancies.
- Ability to perform and guide in factory and site acceptance test and performance test.
- Ability to produce integrated start-up schedules.
- Ability to commission and start-up systems/equipment safely and reach stable conditions.
- Attend and provide input at P&ID review, HAZOP and HAZID review.
- Able to monitor and lead DCS operations such as alarm trips, logic, interlocks, permissive, overrides etc.
- Able to monitor and control temperatures, pressures, levels, flow of operating plant.
- Ability to produce plans and specific method statements including P&ID mark ups for activities related to leak testing, chemical cleaning, oil flushing, air blowing, catalyst loading, operational test procedures, start-up procedures etc.
- Ability to conduct P&ID line walks, equipment internals inspections and vendor packages readiness for commissioning and operation.
- Participate in HAZOP meeting with client and representative of the other engineering disciplines.
- Troubleshooting of equipment operation, coordination required to perform dynamic test and performance test for various systems with vendors.