Comsip, a subsidiary of VINCI Energies Oil & Gas, specializes in providing highly qualified technical resources to support the most ambitious industrial projects around the world.

🔧 Our mission for over 75 years : to support the largest operators and engineering companies in the successful delivery of their complex projects, by providing key skills in Engineering, Construction, Commissioning, Operations and Maintenance. 

🌐 With more than 120 experts available worldwide, Comsip operates with a responsible and sustainable approach, in perfect alignment with the values of the VINCI Energies group.

Position: INSTRUMENTATION-ICSS Site & Precom-com ENGINEER

Location: Site Uganda

Duration : 1 year (Renewable)

Status : Rotational 4X4

Context and Environment:

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 accountabilities

• Reporting to the ICSS-Instrumentation Lead, act as technical authority on Site for Instrumentation – ICSS activities on Site in particular trouble-shooting

• In coordination with the Commissioning team, participate in the ICSS and instrumentation commissioning activities.

• The position being in back to back, smooth transfer and continuity of supervision activities shall be ensured with the back to back position holder.

• The holder of the position will:

- Have a very good knowledge of the Project technical referential, Project detailed design and will be particularly agile in assessing the compliance of the field engineering topics to the various project deliverables;

- Be familiar with the Project processes and organization to allow formal resolution of the field engineering issues;

HSE:

• The job holder shall undertake all activities he is responsible for, or involved in, with the highest level of consideration for HSE risk management, protecting human health, respecting communities and preserving the environment.

• He will promote safety and environment awareness / conscientiousness at all levels through an exemplary and pro-active attitude towards the Project team, the Contractor / Subcontractor and with all stakeholders.

• He shall ensure and promote the use of the Company rules and specifications throughout his activities to ensure compliance with Project safety objectives.

• To ensure a safe execution on site

Main activities

• Attend FATs for critical discipline equipment (ex MPFM, ICSS,etc…

• 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; in particular hook-up 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 (in technical rooms, cables installation, etc…)

• 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

- Organising technical discipline meetings as and when required:

- 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

• To participate in the preparation of the ICSS Precommissioning & Commissioning procedures & dossiers, reporting tools (Commissioning MDR, ICAPS database, planning, punchlist)

• 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 (directives, rules, specifications, procedures, etc), and ensure those are properly understood.

• Ensure that any incident or anomaly (unsafe act/situation) 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.

Qualification:

• Engineering degree or equivalent in Instrumentation and ICSS discipline

Experience:

• 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.

• Previous experience with major IOC’s in large oil and gas construction projects.

• Site / commissioning experience

Why join us?

🧬Our DNA : Trust, Entrepreneurial spirit, Solidarity, Autonomy, Responsibility

Joining us means the assurance of becoming part of a large group within a human-sized company!

🚀 A tailored onboarding from your very first day and individual career support

🏫 Opportunities for growth, training and mobility within a fast-growing international group

🙏🏼 Hands-on support and close management

💶 Recognition of employee performance through a employee savings plan

🥇 The sharing and pride in our successes

☘️ Respect for the environment and local communities in the countries where our projects are carried out (Human Rights Guide)

🦺 Respect for the health and safety of our employees

👋 At VINCI Energies Oil & Gas, our CSR initiatives are fully integrated into our activities, our ways of working, and ultimately, into our DNA