A Green Field Project, the Tilenga field is to be found in a remote location in Uganda near lake Albert with sensitive environmental conditions. A challenging project: circa 200 oil producer wells and 200 water injector wells; heavy and waxy oils produced and treated in a Production Center of 200,000bopd oil capacity and 650,000 bld of water treatment capacity; reservoir pressure maintenance is ensured by water injection; Oil produced through ESP (Electrical Submersible Pumps) Artificial lift means. The project also includes an extended interconnecting network with temperature preservation. Multicultural environment: Contractors are anticipated to be located in various parts of the world. Ugandan rules and regulations, administrative requirements and technical authorizations as well as International codes for onshore plant will apply

Main Duties and Responsibilities:

• Attend FATs for critical discipline equipment 
• Monitor closure/implementation of FAT punch items at Site
• Ensure that requests for changes and change notices are properly logged / maintained in a master file, implemented and compiled by contractors.
• Supervise and control the Software management of change between FATs phase and the installation on Site.
• Ensure that Approved AFC documents are used by construction teams; standards and wiring at Site are as per approved AFC documents.
• Ensure engineering mark ups/red-line mark-up are logged and formally issued and approved.
• Supervise, control and monitor all field engineering related topics of the instrumentation discipline on Site.
• Review and prepare answers to the site concessions requests.
• Ensure, for the discipline that approved detailed Engineering, Project Specifications and Procedures, Company general Specifications and international codes are well followed.
• Monitor construction progress on regularly basis.
• Ensure that all construction risks are well anticipated and reduced as much as possible by the contractors and subcontractors.
• Provide expertise and assistance to the construction and commissioning teams on technical aspects of his/her discipline
  1. Organising technical discipline meetings as and when required:
  2. Focusing on critical scopes and materials
• Ensure that, for his discipline and area, the site deliverables, as-builts and quality assurance record books are properly documented and maintained by the contractors.
• Monitor readiness for commissioning of key instrumentation assets such as ITR, ICSS. Coordinate the vendors assistance on Site, for packages commissioning and SATs of the control systems
• Participate in the preparation of the ICSS Precommissioning & Commissioning procedures & dossiers, reporting tools.
• In coordination with Commissioning team, participate in the loop check campaigns
• Review the Precommissioning & Commissioning Execution Plan in liaison with Commissioning leads/manager.
• Contribute to the use of OPERCOM methodology to perform pre-commissioning
• Contribute to Site Acceptance Tests, pre-commissioning preparation and ICAPS items population
• Contribute to the use ICAPS for the progress & punch list follow-up and their clearance

In Any phase:

• Ensure that Safety, Health, Environment Policy and Management System are adhered and that safe working practices are carried out at all times.
• Comply with HSE policy and documents, and ensure those are properly understood.
• Ensure that any incident or anomaly is immediately reported and analysed.
• Participate in actions for identifying and minimising risks, and the impact of activities
• Take part in incident, accident and anomaly investigations and analyses when is required.
• Attend and actively participate in any HSE inspection, audit or other improvement activity when is required.
• Analyse and timely closure any NCR or HSE findings to their own area of work.
• Involve him/herself in safety aspects of the design and report any anomalies noticed on site, in particular when related to his/her discipline.
• Comply with the HSE Training required for the position

Reporting and Progress Follow Up :

• Evaluate performance of Contractors Team
• Monitor progress of contractors. Propose progress parameters based on accurate records in liaison with construction, packages and commissioning teams expectations.
• Report any issues to the ICSS-instrumentation lead
• Prepare Daily and Weekly report for the management.

Qualifications & Experience:

• Engineering degree or equivalent in Instrumentation and ICSS discipline
• Previous experience in the ICSS- instrumentation discipline
• Minimum of 10 years of experience in Oil and Gas and Petrochemical industry with thorough knowledge on various safety regulations, standards, procedures etc.
• Knowledge of Company group standards and/or previous experience with other major IOC’s in large oil and gas construction projects.
• Site / commissioning experience.