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Kent

Commissioning System Owner

United StatesPosted 2 days ago
remote

Job Description

About the job: 

Kent is looking for a Commissioning System Owner to be based in Anchorage, Alaska. You will steward, execute, and coordinates commissioning planning and execution activities to ensure project success and operational readiness. This role requires collaboration with multiple disciplines and contractors to meet quality and safety standards. You will liaise with Project Management Team, Contractor & SU/Ops discipline leads.

Skills and Responsibilities:  

Responsibilities:

  • Demonstrate strong HSSE leadership and consistently promote safe behaviors. 
  • Ensure safety expectations are clearly communicated, implemented, and maintained. 
  • Comply with all company, client, and regulatory HSSE, sustainability, and quality requirements.
  • Coordinate with engineering, operations, and vendors to align commissioning activities with the project schedule. 
  • Manage interfaces between stakeholders to ensure clear, timely communication. 
  • Plan and attend FATs, maximizing commissioning scope completion at fabrication yards. 
  • Review contractor plans, challenge assumptions, and maintain awareness of critical paths, sequencing, and risks. 
  • Proactively identify risks and implement mitigation strategies to maintain schedule performance.
  • Develop project-specific commissioning plans and contribute to procedures in coordination with CSU leads. 
  • Review and approve commissioning procedures and ensure compliance during execution. 
  • Define system boundaries, allocate systems/subsystems, and assign A/B/C check sheets. 
  • Conduct and support pre-commissioning and commissioning activities across all disciplines (mechanical, electrical, instrumentation, control). 
  • Review ITPs, FAT procedures, vendor packages, and commissioning documentation; provide feedback to stakeholders. 
  • Ensure test records, as-builts, and handover documentation are complete and accurate. 
  • Support data validation and population of the Completions Management System. 
  • Maintain accurate records of commissioning activities and generate reports for stakeholders.
  • Support walkdowns, acceptance, turnover, and startup readiness with operations teams. 
  • Ensure proper discipline and cross-functional participation during system handover. 
  • Facilitate smooth transition of systems from commissioning to operations. 
  • Provide training to operations personnel on commissioned systems.
  • Monitor punch list quality and drive timely close-out of A & B items. 
  • Maintain oversight of inspections, tests, and commissioning activities (e.g., leak tests, loop checks, function testing). 
  • Identify and resolve technical issues and system deficiencies. 
  • Assess resource needs (personnel, tools, equipment, spares) and ensure competency standards are met.
  • Collaborate closely with project teams, vendors, and clients to ensure safe and efficient startup. 
  • Provide regular updates on commissioning progress and address stakeholder concerns.

In addition to the responsibilities listed herein, the employee may be required to perform other ad-hoc tasks as needed or directed by the supervisor or management. These tasks will be within the reasonable scope of the employee's skills, capabilities, and role within the organization. The intent of this provision is to allow for flexibility and adaptability in meeting the dynamic needs of the organization, ensuring that operational requirements can be met efficiently. All such tasks will be assigned considering the employee's current workload and with respect to their professional development.

 

 
Your knowledge/skills, education, and experience:  

Knowledge/ Qualification/ Training/ Certification: 

  • Engineering degree or equivalent qualification with 10+ years of relevant and transferable Project/Engineering/Commissioning experience.
  • In-depth knowledge of Systems Completion standards, specifications, codes, and appropriate safety criteria.
  • Experience commissioning projects in extremely cold-weather conditions.
  • Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications; experience with Visio or similar tools to communicate commissioning sequences, organizational charts, and workflow processes is an asset.
  • Proven strong technical skills in subject matter.
  • Strong understanding of work planning, scheduling and tracking.
  • Exposure to Oil Company practices, processes, and expectations with respect to Systems Completion, Preservation, Commissioning and Start Up operations.

 

 

 

Communication:

  • Excellent command of the English language in both oral and written communication and skills.
  • Communicate effectively within a project team and with project management, contractors, and sub-contractors.

 

 

Behavior/ Core Competencies:

  • Ability to develop and maintain strong and good relationship with company and client personnel.
  • Strong organizational skills.
  • Strong work ethic with a pragmatic approach.
  • Well-developed interpersonal skills.
  • Ability to think strategically and tactically, balancing these as workload changes.
  • Ability to identify and manage risks.

 

HSSEQ:

The Employee shall observe the Health, Safety, Sustainability, Environment and Quality rules of the Company; it’s clients and the governing authorities of the host country. 

 

 
Details about the role:  
Location: Anchorage, AK, USA 
Relocation required: Yes for Planning Phase then rotational work during execution phase 
Travel required: Yes – During planning phase travels to fabrication yard and during execution phase rotations to North Slope Alaska (Site) 
Contract type: Full Time  
Experience level: 10+ years 


 

About you:

Join us. Unleash your energy within.

If you have world-class ambitions to reach the stars while keeping your feet on the ground, we’re the team for you. We've created a new breed of company – future-focused with reimagined ambition across all disciplines within the energy sector.

We love people who know their own potential and are not afraid to use it. We know that together, we’re far more than the sum of our parts. So, we celebrate people who want to grow and develop as we work together on some of the largest projects on the energy world stage.

We are committed to our diverse and inclusive community – a place where we can all be ourselves, thrive and develop. From day one, we offer a range of family-friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements, and employee networks to support staff from different backgrounds.

As an Equal Opportunities Employer, we value applications from all backgrounds, cultures, and abilities.

We’re a disability-friendly employer and can make adjustments to support you to perform at your best during the recruitment process.

Our purpose and beliefs:

As Kent, we’re tackling the greatest challenge of our time - to bring our world the energy it needs in the most responsible way ever imagined.

It’s the energy of every member of our team driven by our beliefs that is making this happen. Whatever our skill, our language, or our culture. These beliefs define and direct us every day to be the very best - for ourselves, our clients, our key stakeholders, the communities we operate in and the planet:

We PLAY BIG
We thrive on EMOTIONAL AGILITY
We are FANATICAL ABOUT PERFORMANCE
We are built on INFINITE THINKING

Read more about the Purpose, Beliefs and Guiding Principles that drive us:

Our vision for Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging:

We recognise that diversity & inclusion are catalysts for success. We’re heightening awareness on the benefits of people diversity, diversity of experiences and diversity of our perspectives. Creating a culture of inclusivity where all employees feel a sense of belonging.

Our combined energy is fueled by different nationalities, across 6 continents and 24 countries. Our commitment is to celebrate character – no matter what ethnic background, gender, age, religion, identity, or disability.

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