Principal Engineer - Commissioning; Mechanical

Principal Engineer - Commissioning-Mechanical Scope of Responsibilities

Lead a team of commissioning engineers in carrying out Pre-Commissioning/Commissioning & 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.

• 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 discussed 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.
• Manages 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 & 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 communication with Sub-contractor execution team.
• Liaise & 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.

• Ability to produce project specific procedures, Preservation & Maintenance check sheets, matrix and schedules.
• Ability to find out technical problems associated with rotating/static equipment and mechanical packages/valves are identified and resolved or coordinated with the respective vendor.
• Ability to preserve and maintain rotating equipment after equipment commissioning and start-up.
• Preparation of RFQ’s and evaluation of vendor technical bids and preparation of technical bid analysis for all specialist services activities.
• Assessing the requirements of special tools/temporary facilities/equipment required for pre-commissioning and commissioning.
• Ability to participate in model reviews of the plant with respect to Accessibility & Maintainability requirements.
• Ability to perform & guide various activities related to rotating equipment likes lube oil flushing, alignment, lubrication, vibration checks, start-up etc.
• Ability to perform & guide various activities related to static equipment likes proper installation of internal inside the vessels as per drawing & specifications.
• Ability to perform & guide in air blowing, flushing, leak testing, drying & inerting of various piping.
• Ability to perform & guide in various activities such as mechanical interlock, pipeline pigging activities, spring support, hot & cold setting.