Commissioning Manager

About the role

The Commissioning Manager is based in Doha, Qatar, working 9 hours per day, 5 days a week. The role ensures that head office activities covering pre-commissioning, commissioning, start-up, test run, training, maintenance engineering, operation and handover of the plant to the client are carried out according to contractual requirements and project objectives in terms of safety, quality, budget and schedule. It also covers overall responsibility and accountability for efficient commissioning, operations and maintenance.

Key responsibilities

• Commissioning and start-up: ensure HSE procedures are available and applied, contribute to safety walk-downs and incident investigations, take part in Pre-Start-up Safety Reviews (PSSR), issue progress reports and manage the activities while respecting schedule and budget.
• Competency development of the team, participation in risk/opportunity meetings, and transfer of lessons learned to head office.
• Operations phase: ensure safe and efficient production, maintain client relationships, implement and maintain the Safety Management System (SMS) and arrange periodic internal and external SMS audits.
• Plan and conduct classification and statutory surveys, ensure compliance with national and international laws (classification societies, IMO, SOLAS, ISPS, MARPOL), and verify ISM authority oversight of safety and pollution prevention matters.
• Advise the client on operating costs, obtain annual approval for local operating budgets, review monthly forecasts and take corrective action on potential overruns, and review equipment performance.
• Appraise staff performance, obtain technical and professional support from BL functions, clients, consultants, manufacturers, vendors and contractors, supervise local subcontractors and agents, approve subcontracting of local staff, and coordinate emergency situations with corporate departments and the client.
• Supervise compliance with class rules and flag regulations.
• Pre-operation phase: support the HSE manager in preparing HSE plans and procedures, prepare the pre-comm, commissioning and start-up plan, review test run procedures and operating manuals, define isolation control procedures and commission sequences, prepare schedules and technical specifications for subcontracting, and liaise with HR on crew phase-in and training.
• Ensure materials are on board and in good order before commissioning, monitor planned maintenance setup, prepare material and spare parts inventory budgets and forecasts, and produce periodic reports.
• Timely review operational and safety procedures and manuals with corporate departments, and cooperate with HSE on SMS matters.