Commissioning & Start-Up Director (Open)
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At Air Products, our purpose is to bring people together to reimagine what’s possible, collaborate and innovate solutions to the world’s most significant energy and environmental sustainability challenges. Grow with us as we embark on building tomorrow together by being the safest, most diverse and most profitable industrial gas company in the world. Reimagine What’s Possible Nature and Scope The role is accountable for directing and leading the CSU team to ensure safe & reliable execution of all commissioning and start-up activities. The role provides a comprehensive project controls function for the assigned areas of the project, including cost estimating, project planning, progress measurement and reporting, budget and cost control, resource planning, risk management, cash and accrual management, invoice attesting and processing. The role will manage and ensure performance of responsibilities in accordance with Company and Project Guidelines and Procedures. Principal Accountabilities
- Responsible for preparation of the overall IGCC schedule.
- Advises the operations team for reviewing commissioning procedures and adapting best practices.
- Manages and spearheads employee performance and goal setting for all CSU team members and consistently tracks and reports their individual progress.
- Identifies pinch points in collaboration with the CSU execution team, the commissioning schedule ahead of time and plans workarounds.
- Ensures safe commissioning practices are communicated through CSU execution team with other departments.
- Supports operations meetings and ensures Operations and CSU execution teams are aligned together.
- Leads the CSU team in understanding and ensuring SIMOPS is properly working in both commissioning and operations stages.
- Issues weekly site update of commissioning and start-up progress report including encountered issues and mitigation in close collaboration with the CSU Team.
- Prepares, reviews, and issues the contractual monthly report to client.
- Identifies vendor requirements look ahead.
- Leads and understands the contractual requirements for commissioning and start-up.
- Issues simulations of alternative commissioning sequences to avoid delays.
- Prepares manpower deployment curves and cost estimates for alternative schedules.
- Plans additional resources to ensure schedule timely execution.
- Ensures adherence to the OIM by promoting good understanding of the operating procedures in every IGCC unit.
- Institutes good understanding of the basis of design of IGCC plant unit.
- Leads an excellent understanding of Saudi Aramco site General Instructions (GI’s) and work permit procedures.
- Leads an excellent understanding of Saudi Aramco engineering standards.
- Promotes and provides leadership in understanding of commissioning quality control system and their work process, interpretation of the contractual requirements of unit performance testing, and planning of unit performance test sequences.
- Identifies gaps in site lab capability, environmental compliance, alarm frequency of SIL 2 & 3 emergency alarms in readiness for performance testing.
- Arranges third party support for performance testing (Environmental compliance, laboratory services, mechanical support, vendor support, licensor support).
- Accountable for grid code test execution in accordance with SEC standards and JIGPC contract.
- Understands design issues (DN’s) in case they are affecting personnel or process safety (Technical Queries) to ensure that they are remedied on a priority basis.
- Supports the IGCC production planning team to ensure that the CSU requirements are fed into the production plan.
- Ensures safety of all workers during the commissioning and start-up activities.
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