CNOOC Uganda Limited is a subsidiary of China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC). CNOOC Uganda Limited is delighted to offer employment opportunities to the local talent. Grow your career with CNOOC Uganda Limited and join our experienced team of professionals. Are you focused, committed, passionate and ready to take on new challenges? Then this could be your opportunity to make a valid contribution to the development of the oil and gas sector in Uganda.

Chief Commissioning Engineer- Engineering Project Team
Location: Kampala, Albert Lake production installation base or other cities in Uganda if required.

Primary function:
• Responsible for developing and implementing the commissioning strategy and plan and be able to assess risk and make control measures during commissioning.
• Train and instruct the operator to be competent to coordinate and do commissioning.

Responsibilities:
• Making improvements and offering advice on operational procedures.
Evaluating critical processes and making control measure for safety condition.
• Scheduling and coordinating work to tight deadlines. Making commissioning more effective and smoothly.
• Ensuring that equipment works to its specification and judging its specification that meets design requirement.
• Creating and carrying out test procedures and controlling risk of process.
Evaluating function test and criteria, which meet the project requirement. Investigating problems, diagnosing, and repairing faults, troubleshooting.
• Liaising with installation/ project engineers. Making no gap between construction, installation and commissioning.
• Supervising engineering and technical staff to work in properly procedure and have a clear interface between them.
Writing reports and documentation of commissioning.
• Making a dossier for commissioning documents.
• Registering document coming in and sending out and having a good archive.
• Providing technical support to operators and instructing operators to following procedures during commissioning.
• Assessing Risk of commissioning and making control measures.
• Ensuring safe working conditions for commissioning.
• Training maintenance and operative staff where appropriate.
• Making sure commission workers to follow maintenance and operation manual.
• Well preparation for commissioning including human resource, financial, material/facilities, and procedure/instruction.
Assisting and supporting production team to be ready for startup (RFSU) and startup.

Requirements:
• Bachelor’s degree in Petroleum or chemical engineering or the related.
• At least 15 years similar experience preferably in a professional engineering background e.g. petroleum or chemical industry, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, instrumentation etc., including 8 years’ experience in similar roles in the oil & gas industry and at least 3 years experiences of supervisory role.
Working at construction, installation, commissioning and at least working for three engineering projects as Engineering coordinator or engineering planner.

Knowledge:
• Extensive knowledge of petroleum engineering or petro-chemical engineering. Extensive knowledge of construction, installation and commissioning.
• Extensive knowledge of safety on oil and gas industry.