Area Director - Construction, CSU, Balance of Plant

Venture Global LNG (“Venture Global”) is a long-term, low-cost provider of American-produced liquefied natural gas (LNG). The company’s Louisiana-based export projects service the global demand for North American natural gas and support the long-term development of clean and reliable North American energy supplies. Using reliable, proven technology in an innovative plant design configuration, Venture Global’s modular, mid-scale plant design will replace traditional designs as it allows for the same efficiency and operational reliability at significantly lower capital cost.

General Description:

The Area Director, Commissioning and Start-Up and Construction (ADCSUC) is responsible for the planning and safe execution of commissioning and start-up activities and Construction within a Capital Project team.

The ADCSUC will ultimately ensure that CP2 LNG facilities are commissioned and started up safely and on time and comply with the project integrity and assurance requirements to achieve the agreed operating performance targets.

The ADCSUC shall further ensure a smooth and flawless handover from the Project to the Asset Operations Manager.

The ADCSUC shall help lead the execution of CSU and Construction activities from detailed planning through to final handover to Operations.

The ADCSUC role is a key role that provides a critical interface between the project phase and the operations phase and supports the Operations Readiness objective of ensuring that the CP2 LNG facilities are built to meet the future needs of the operator.

Typical responsibilities of the ADCSUC may include:

• Definition and development of the project completions/commissioning and start-up philosophy and strategy, and various levels of Construction/CSU plans.
• Selection of suitably qualified and experienced personnel to staff the Team.
• Ensuring Construction/CSU risks are identified, and necessary mitigation plans are in place, where required.
• Advising on contract strategy and staffing models for integrated CSU/Construction teams.
• Oversight for developing, implementing, and maintaining a Commissioning & Completions Management System, including punch list management and TQ interface.
• Defining inspection and testing requirements relating to Mechanical Completion and Pre-commissioning.
• Vendor representative support requirements, time schedule and cost forecast.
• Interfacing with engineering, procurement and construction groups regarding commissioning priorities and resolution of site queries.
• Managing Change Control procedures during commissioning.
• Managing Health, Safety and Environmental aspects relating to commissioning activities, in partnership with project and site construction managers.
• Preparation of “as-commissioned” documentation to facilitate the handover of systems from construction, through commissioning and into operations.
• Ensure the process is in place to prepare and execute the Pre-Start up Safety Review
• Compliance with FERC conditions
• Other activities as identified by the SVP
• Leadership role for Pre-start Up (PSSR) and Go-no-Go assurance processes

Skills:

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering and/or job-related experience and minimum of 15 years field execution experience
  OR
  Minimum 10-15 years of experience in LNG/Gas Process/ Petrochemical Industries and Power Plant maintenance and operations
• Minimum 10 years of experience in supervisor roles 
• Minimum 5 years of experience in a CSU role on mid to large scale project
• Must have knowledge of DCS/PLC configuration and design
• Smart Plant Instrumentation (SPI), MS Office Suite
• EPC experience
• Recent knowledge of engineering methods and must possess a technical knowledge of the detail design engineering process, including regulatory and safety instrumented system instrumentation

Venture Global LNG is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status or any other basis covered by appropriate law.