Job Description

COMMISSIONING MANAGER

Location: Croatia, Rijeka 

Start date: 12/05/2025 up to end of September (direct hire)

Commissioning Manager with experience in Refinery Project (possibly with Delayed Coke Unit) to take care of Pre-commissioning phase.

Mission: The Commissioning Manager, in coordination with the Construction Management and by means of the personnel acting under his own authority, will undertake the precommissioning and commissioning activities up to the point when each system and the whole Plant is handed over to Client and all the Contractor contractual obligations are fulfilled.

Hierarchical position: He reports hierarchically during engineering phase to the Project Manager and during pre- commissioning and commissioning phase to the Site Manager; functionally to COMMISSIONING DEPARTMENT Head of department.

He is assigned to the Project by COMMISSIONING DEPARTMENT Head of department in agreement with the Project Manager in the initial phase of the project.

 
Duties and Responsibilities 

• Prepare and finalize the commissioning strategy of the project and assure his implementation throughout the entire project life. For specific topic, such as planning, involving high level of expertise, the Commissioning Manager operates in co-ordination with the Construction Manager and the Project Management & Control (PMC) Manager
• Assure the preparation of the project deliverables, their consistency with contract requirements and their quality through a dedicated team, regardless the location and distribution of the engineering centers in charge of the development of such documents;
• Assure the compliance of commissioning cost with the assigned budget;
• Participate to project review meetings, hazop and constructability studies and 3D model review;
• Interface Engineering Departments, Client and Vendors representatives in the execution of the job;
• Finalize the organization chart, the mobilization plan for personnel and vendors;
• Assign and define duties among the discipline Superintendents and Supervisors for supporting the Vendor representatives at Site..
• Organize and co-ordinate all site activities, from pre-commissioning up to the performance test, as requested in the contract through the Commissioning Superintendent;
• Sign the Discipline Acceptance Certificates (QUALITY CONTROL DATA BASEs), or other forms issued form Construction for the formal hand over of the system/subsystem form construction. The signing will be after the field check by Commissioning Engineers/Superintendents and completed with Commissioning punch list;
• Propose corrective actions in order to overcome upset and delays at site in order to fulfill the overall target of the project;
• Organize the technical training according to Department standards and Client requirement;
• Coordinate with the Project HSSE Manager for the Pre Start Up HSSE Survey;
• Develop and foster working relationship with Client Project Management in order to enable a seamless handover.
• Participate to the Performance test either Vendor packaged units or Plant units where required;
• Approve the Vendor supplied items (packages) Provisional Acceptance Certificate prior to Site Manager for formal acceptance.

As a member of the department the duties of the Commissioning Manager are:

• To provide the Commissioning Final Report that includes all observations related to the project concerning organization, manpower and technical aspects;
• To provide feedback to the Head of Department concerning problems arising from the implementation of methodology and work instructions to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of the department; organize the most important observations in the form of instructions for improvements;
• To provide feedback to the Engineering Managers (PEM, PM) concerning the technical problems arising in field during the execution of activities, either related to design, quality of material, Vendor packaged units, Vendor assistance and quality of construction.
• To provide feedback to the Head of Department in elaborating the job costing regarding supervision manpower, Sub Contractor manpower, cost of operations sub-contracted, utilities quantities and cost associated with the execution of pre-commissioning, consumables and materials utilized for the execution of activities.

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