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- Telework Type: Full-Time Office/Project

- Work Location: Perth, WA

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Project Overview:

Bechtel has been engaged to provide EPCM services to two projects to replace the existing bucketwheel reclaimers at West Angelas and Brockman 4 mines in the Pilbara in northwest Australia.

The Project includes the design, procurement, installation, and commissioning of the new bucketwheel reclaimers as well as design and construction of associated off-board scope, including earthworks, structural works and electrical upgrades to support the installation and operation of the new reclaimers.



An prospect exists within the Bechtel project team for a Pre Commissioning Manager to work closely with project stakeholders (including contractors, Bechtel and the customer) to ensure commissioning of the works.

This will be Perth based initially before moving to being site-based role working a 2 & 1 FIFO roster to West Angelas and Brockman 4.

Job Summary:

In this role, you will be responsible for project startup planning and activities. You will coordinate with project management, engineering, construction, and clients to leverage diverse technical team skills to integrate the startup plan. You will identify risks and trends, manage progress reporting, and proactively course-correct to ensure goals, schedules, and requirements are met.

Major Responsibilities:

Reporting to the Project Manager, the Pre Commissioning Manager has overall responsibility for supervising and directing the pre-commissioning and commissioning activities of the multidisciplinary West Angelas and Brockman 4 team. This includes:

- Conducts execution planning for project scope through plans, procedures, schedules, and budgets Coordinating with the other disciplines and organizations to prepare and execute a plan to complete all pre-commissioning and commissioning testing in a best for project optimised and structured manner. Turnover coordination and Sub-System Handover to the customer at completion of pre-commissioning





- Provide support to the customer team during no-load testing, load commissioning and performance testing. Leading the multidisciplinary Pre-Commissioning team of the project

- Assigning priorities and making continuous and daily monitoring of the execution of the scheduled tasks.

- Supervises and provides technical guidance to subordinate supervisors or startup engineers assigned to the project. Reviewing and supervising the Construction and Pre-Commissioning schedules, resource histogram and the requirements of materials and equipment, for a correct execution of the activities.

- Leading the impact of interferences on the interfaces with construction to ensure that they coincide with the established general schedules and do not impact on dates and safety of the project.

- Preparing activity plan and tests at component level, at subsystem level and integrated tests at system level. Prepares or directs the preparation of operations manuals

- Estimates staffing needs and schedules and assigns work to meet schedule dates. Leading meetings with the different project and customer teams, reporting progress, identifying critical work and actions to be performed.

- Preparing, awarding and managing specialized subcontracts as needed to support pre-commissioning activities. Provide training as needed. Ensuring that the Lock Out Tag Out (LOTO) for energy isolation is followed to the letter in each of the associated field activities.

- Preparing detailed plans for the pre-commissioning and ensuring the correct update and completed in the Smart Completions databases.Directing, carrying out and participating in the process of Turnover / delivery of the subsystems / system

📌 Pre Commissioning Manager (Perth)
🏢 Bechtel
📍 Perth