Instrument - Specialist

Job Summary:

The Instrument & Control (I&C) Commissioning and Start-Up (CSU) Specialist will directly support the CSU I&C Lead in executing all CSU I&C activities for the RGLNG Project. This role involves active participation in ensuring the CSU I&C scope is completed safely, efficiently, and in compliance with all project safety, quality, and design standards. The successful candidate will contribute to the pre-commissioning, commissioning, and start-up phases of large plant I&C systems, including ICSS, FGS, and ESD systems.

Familiarity with specialized equipment and system applications utilized within LNG plant design is beneficial.

• Reviews Piping and Instrumentation Diagrams to systemize project I&C scope.
• Reviews and/or completes all CSU I&C deliverables including cause and effect procedures, I&C instructions, complex loop, alarm summary, ESD and trip testing, to ensure a safe, timely and economical delivery of Commissioning/Start-Up activities.
• Reviews and provides CSU I&C input on project schedules for proper coordination and sequencing through the mechanical completion, pre-commissioning, commissioning, start-up, operation and final handover phases.
• Reviews and provides CSU I&C input on project I&C engineering and supplier design/documentation.
• Provides CSU I&C input to other groups including Project Management, Engineering, Construction, Project Controls, Procurement, Contracts, ES&H, Estimating, Completions, etc. to support project requirements.
• Assists in populating the project System Completions Database (I&C scope only).
• Provides CSU I&C input with Completions group to assist in the development of project system/sub-system turnover packages.
• Participates in system walk-downs, raises and tracks punch items to maintain quality and assesses the installation of supplier packages to ensure project compliance.
• Applies management of change processes for I&C activities, including design changes, scope changes, NCRs/RFIs/FCDs, and retesting.
• Oversees CSU I&C testing activities on plant control systems including ICSS, SIS, ESD, FGS and specialized equipment supplier control systems.
• Testing activities include instrument calibration, loop and logic testing, ICSS and SIS loop testing, ESD/trip system testing, Fire and Gas system testing, cause and effect/complex loop testing, and alarm summary testing.
• Oversees CSU I&C testing activities on ICSS, SIS, ESD, FGS and specialized equipment supplier control systems.
• Provides ES&H leadership to personnel by ensuring proper implementation of all project safety procedures and by leading CSU I&C safety meetings as required.
• Ensures that all Bechtel and local/national safety codes, requirements and standards are met within their scope and that the Zero Accident Philosophy is integrated into CSU I&C scope.
• Performs employee performance reviews and identifies training and development opportunities for personnel assigned to them.
• Coordinates with onsite project team to support all Construction and CSU activities through commissioning and start-up for a safe and successful project completion.
• Coordinates and/or supervises onsite subcontractors and equipment supplier representatives through commissioning and start-up to ensure project success.
• Coordinates and/or supports onsite client representatives and third party groups through commissioning and start-up for a safe and successful completion of the project.
• Prepares and/or maintains CSU I&C commissioning and start-up spares and monitors onsite spares usage, preparing field material requisitions as required to ensure productive activities.

• University/B.S. degree in Engineering plus 6 years of experience or 10 years of equivalent industry experience in lieu of a degree

• A strong knowledge of testing, commissioning and operation of large plant control systems.
• Previous experience with ICSS, SIS, ESD and FGS systems.
• Previous experience with specialized equipment supplier control systems.
• Experience on an LNG construction site, especially along the U.S. Gulf Coast, is preferred.
• Heavy industrial direct-hire construction experience in a…