Our Client has a vacancy for a Senior Commissioning and Completions Engineer.  This is a contract position, based in Milan, Italy.

As Senior Commissioning and Completions Engineer position, you will develop commissioning strategy and philosophy documents.  You will also ensure that the project commissioning and completions strategy is adequately considered, agreed with the Operator, and properly transferred to the Execution Phase.

Responsibilities:
Ensuring that adequate technical definition is provided in the formulation of  commissioning and completions assumptions, in the concept definition engineering activity and relevant cost estimates.
Coordinate and ensure proper commissioning and completions input is provided during Front End Engineering Desing (FEED) execution
Ensure that proposed execution strategies are robust in terms of commissioning strategy for onshore installations.
Coordinate all commissioning and completions issues related to the development concept taking into account all company developments and other regional requirements.
Ensuring that all opportunities and risks related to commissioning and completions are properly evaluated and managed.
Maintaining interface and communication with relevant parties to monitor the evolution of commissioning and completions activities, ensuring that lessons learned are capitalised.
Addressing the impact of SIMOPS (simultaneous production, construction and commissioning operations) and HSE issues relating to commissioning activities and strategies.
Governance of all aspects relating  to commissioning and completions.

Qualifications and Experience:
Qualification in an engineering discipline relevant to facilities and infrastructures for oil and gas field development.
Substantial demonstrable experience in the  oil and gas industry, mainly in commissioning and completions management. 
Understanding of how oil and gas development projects are implemented.
Project management skills, including planning and costing.
Demonstrable experience in pre-execution project definition phases e.g., systems boundary definition, definition of commissioning requirements to be included in ITT's.
Significant previous experience in oil and gas  commissioning activities in remote regions and challenging environment (artic, sub-artic, shallow waters, swamp areas, ecologically sensitive areas).
Knowledge of the drivers and obligations influencing systems handovers.
Previous experience in FSU countries and Caspian region would be an advantage.
Understanding of key technical details to be addressed for a successful commissioning strategy while maintaining a high level perspective of the field development.

Required Competencies:
Capability to work on several different scenarios and be open minded.
Ability to problem solving and have analytical mind.
Supervisory skills and ability to work in a multicultural environment.
Ability to develop junior staff, both expatriate and RoK Nationals.
Negotiation and interpersonal skills to facilitate liaison between various stakeholder groups and departments within the Project.
Communication and presentation skills.
Full command of English, written and spoken.
Ability to write high quality technical reports.
IT literacy with relevant software (Microsoft office).

Working Conditions:
Based in Milan, with frequent trips to locations in United Kingdom, Western Europe, Kazakhstan and other Caspian region countries.
Normally 5/2(Monday to Friday).
Flexibility to meet project needs.

The salary for this role is Â500 - Â550 GBP per day.

To apply for the Senior Commissioning and Completions Engineer position, please forward your current CV, quoting reference number 64420.