Commissioning Director
by Wood Plc GCC in Energy (Oil, Gas & Renewables)
The Commissioning Director role requires comprehensive oversight and management of complex multi-billion-dollar onshore oil and gas EPCm projects, ensuring a systematic commissioning approach through development and implementation of commissioning plans and procedures. The mandate includes leadership across HSE issues, identification of commissioning-specific HSE concerns and risks, verification of all systems and equipment, definition of testing and integration activities across safe, tight, clean, function, operate, and preserve requirements, and ensuring all systems meet design specifications and operational requirements before handover. The position requires preparation of project commissioning and start-up plans with detailed activities and start-up logic, development and management of commissioning budgets, staffing forecasts, and alignment of all stakeholders to the Commissioning Execution Plan. Additional responsibilities include participation in design review, 3D Model Reviews, Value Engineering, Risk Management workshops, PHSERs and IPR sessions, establishing system breakdown structures, mechanical completions structures, and work pack structures, developing commissioning record close-out documentation, ensuring accurate documentation throughout project phases, planning and preparing all resources, materials, tools, test equipment and consumables, establishing completions management systems, overseeing on-site commissioning activities including P&ID checking, mechanical completion, pre-commissioning, cold and hot commissioning, conducting pre-start-up safety reviews, managing start-up, performance testing and punch list handovers, overseeing contractor and vendor activities, interfacing with operations for commissioning and turnover, supporting operational readiness and project execution plan development, establishing progress reporting systems, ensuring compliance with regulatory bodies and Wood procedures, and driving continuous improvement, cost reduction, and schedule efficiency throughout all commissioning phases.