Electrical & Instrumentation Construction Coordinator

Location:Fort McMurray, AB
Industry:Oil & Gas / Oil Sands
Job Type:Contract

TPD is looking to hire an experienced
Electrical & Instrumentation (E&I) Construction Coordinator
for our client
in Fort McMurray, AB
, supporting one of their large projects.

The successful candidate will play a key role in coordinating E&I construction activities, ensuring safe, efficient, and high-quality execution within an active operating facility. This position requires extensive experience in brownfield construction, contractor coordination, turnaround planning, and commissioning readiness.

The ideal candidate will bring strong technical expertise, proven field leadership, and the ability to collaborate with Engineering, Operations, Maintenance, Construction, and Commissioning teams to ensure project milestones are achieved safely and efficiently.

• Coordinate daily E&I construction activities, ensuring work is completed safely, efficiently, and in accordance with project specifications, schedules, and quality standards.
• Provide field leadership and oversee contractor performance, workfront readiness, and execution of electrical and instrumentation installations.
• Collaborate with Engineering, Operations, Maintenance, Turnaround, and Commissioning teams to resolve technical issues, construction constraints, and scheduling conflicts.
• Support
  Advanced Work Packaging (AWP), Construction Work Packages (CWP), Installation Work Packages (IWP), and integrated readiness planning to ensure construction activities are execution-ready.
• Coordinate electrical installations, including power distribution equipment, cable trays, conduit, cabling, grounding, lighting, heat tracing, and associated systems.
• Oversee instrumentation and controls installation activities, including field instruments, junction boxes, control systems, calibration, loop checks, and functional testing.
• Coordinate brownfield tie-ins, electrical outages, isolations, energization, and control-system cutovers while minimizing disruptions to plant operations.
• Participate in constructability reviews, field walkdowns, and construction planning sessions to identify potential installation challenges and improve execution efficiency.
• Support turnaround planning, testing, inspections, system turnover, commissioning, and start-up activities to ensure operational readiness.
• Monitor construction progress, identify risks and constraints, and proactively resolve issues impacting safety, quality, productivity, and project schedules.

• Minimum 15 years of construction experience
  in oil and gas, oil sands, mining, petrochemical, refinery, or heavy industrial environments.
• Minimum 10 years of E&I construction or construction coordination experience
  within active brownfield operating facilities.
• Strong technical knowledge of electrical, instrumentation, and controls construction practices, installation methods, and industry standards.
• Previous experience supporting
  projects in the Oil Sands industry is strongly preferred
  .
• Demonstrated experience coordinating large-scale brownfield capital projects, facility modifications, equipment replacements, and operating-plant tie-ins.
• Experience supporting major turnaround (TA) planning, preparation, and execution activities.
• Strong understanding of electrical outages, isolations, energization, brownfield tie-ins, control-system cutovers, testing, and commissioning.
• Experience with
  Advanced Work Packaging (AWP), Integrated Readiness, CWP/IWP development, Path of Construction, and constraint management
  .
• Proven ability to coordinate multiple stakeholders, including Construction, Engineering, Operations, Maintenance, Quality, Commissioning, and Turnaround teams.
• Familiarity with electrical power distribution systems, instrumentation installations, DCS, SIS, PLC systems, and associated field equipment.
• Experience supporting construction completion, quality inspections, system turnover, commissioning readiness, and operational handover.
• Knowledge of construction safety requirements, permit-to-work processes, simultaneous operations (SIMOPS), and working within active industrial facilities.
• Experience with O3 Solutions, is considered an asset
  .
• Electrical or Instrumentation trade certification, technical diploma, engineering technology background, or equivalent relevant field experience is preferred.
• Strong leadership, communication, problem-solving, and organizational skills, with the ability to manage competing…