Kent ↗
Kent ↗

ORA Engineer

Job Overview

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 respect heritage, talent, hard work and ambition and can offer an environment of truthfulness, optimism, professionalism, and warmth. Are you ready?

Our values:

At Kent, we are driven by the energy within every member of our 10,000-strong team. Whatever our skill, our language, or our culture. We employ and empower the best and let them make decisions. Our values define and drive us every day to be the very best – for ourselves, our clients, our key stakeholders, the communities we operate in and the planet.

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.

About the job:

Kent is looking for a ORA Engineer.

Skills and Responsibilities:

• Provide technical expertise and deliver requirements for Operations Readiness & Assurance at the various project locations in accordance with industry best practice.

• Represent CLIENT OR/CSU team and support Operations staff at design reviews and workshops such as HAZOP, HAZID, SIL, Alarm Management; many of which will be outside Iraq.

• Identify training requirements and liaise with L&D department to ensure these are completed pre-start up.

• Provide discipline technical support to other asset services activities, e.g. asset integrity reviews and improvement activities, shutdowns, maintenance and reliability.

• Support and advise punch listing of systems and closeout of punchlist items on behalf of operations

• Execution of the Operations Readiness & Assurance Execution Plan.

• Provide input to, Operating Manuals, Operating Procedures and Pre-Commissioning and Commissioning Procedures including Systems Testing Procedures.

• Assist and contribute to the Flawless start-up initiative.

• Support the Project to Asset Handover strategy to align with Operations handover requirements.

• Provide quality assurance and coaching on systems acceptance and punch listing activities undertaken by the CLIENT Operations team

• Promote a Flawless Project Delivery (FPD) approach within the Project Teams and Operations to ensure a cost effective and quick ramp up to targets

• Work closely with project and operations to help develop SU team skills and competency requirements

• Participate in Peer reviews on startup and operating procedures

• Work closely with Project and Operations personnel to meet the OR&A milestones.

• Liaise with the CLIENT projects, contractor and CSU teams.

• Ensure risks to the schedule are identified and raised early.

• Assist to Produce punch lists, acceptance documentation, site and technical queries.

• Assist to ensure close out of outstanding work and punch items, prior to systems being accepted for operations.

• Assist with the training and Competence development of workers to ensure that Iraqi personnel are trained and developed to meet existing and future work demands

• Assist in the review of relevant Operational Excellence elements

• Provide input to the Asset Safety Strategies and promote safe practice for personnel and safe operation of production assets.

Your knowledge/skills, education, and experience:

Qualification/ Certification

• Technical Certifications, 5+ years’ experience in a gas and oil industry, minimum 3 years in senior position, CSU/ OR&A experience preferred.

Skills:

• Control room operations with Pneumatic and DCS systems is desirable

• Good technical communication skills

• Ability to interact with members of projects, contractor and CLIENT asset teams

• Extensive knowledge of Plant Operations and Control to evaluate and rank risks

• Good understanding of devices for control, ESD, Safeguarding

• Good understanding of process, electrical, mechanical, rotating equipment operations

• Good understanding of materials, construction, installation, commissioning, and startup

Communication:

• Good technical communication skills

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.