Your mission
- As Senior Commissioning Engineer, you play a pivotal role in bringing our hydrometallurgical battery recycling plant to life – taking full ownership of commissioning end-to-end across all process units and utilities – from mechanical completion through pre-commissioning, commissioning, start-up, performance testing, and handover to Operations.
- You own the commissioning strategy and execution plan, including systemization, commissioning sequencing, readiness criteria, and integration with the overall project schedule (engineering, procurement, construction, and operations readiness).
- You act as the Owner’s commissioning lead towards the engineering contractor: you set expectations, define deliverables, and ensure commissioning requirements (including commissionability, operability, and maintainability) are designed in from the earliest project stages.
- You drive safe commissioning by establishing and enforcing commissioning permits, energization procedures, SIMOPS planning, and LOTO philosophy – ensuring robust risk control during high-risk activities, with particular attention to the hazardous chemical environments inherent to hydrometallurgical operations (e.g., strong acids, organic solvents, toxic gases).
- You coordinate start-up activities across all disciplines – Process, Mechanical, E&I, Automation, Vendors, and Contractors – to bring all process units into stable plant operation.
- You lead troubleshooting and root-cause analysis during start-up and ramp-up, turning issues into permanent fixes via disciplined change control (MOC) and close-out with the engineering contractor and suppliers.
- You enable operational readiness by supporting SOP development, training operators, advising on spare parts criticality, and ensuring a smooth handover into routine operations.
- Ideally, you contribute your commissioning perspective during the design phase, providing constructive feedback on plant layout, start-up readiness, and operability to the process and plant engineering teams.
