Automation Functional Test Coordinator

As an Engineer in the petrochemical sector, you play a leading role in the design, development and improvement of a plant and you work closely together on the largest projects. Together with a team of experts, you will provide efficient and sustainable solutions that meet the highest standards.

Responsibilities

•  Acts as a contact point towards Commissioning team and focus on ensuring readiness for tests and that preceding tasks are finalized on time
• Organize a Functional Tests review/meeting before the test.
• Confirm that all preliminary activities have been executed
• Coordinate all the actors involved in the test (Field Instrument Technician, Supervisor, etc.)
• Ensure the correct execution of Functional Tests as per applicable standards and schedule.
• Communicate to Engineering & Commissioning team any issue related to Functional test execution and manage overall coordination with site automation engineers.
• Keep the Engineering team informed about any modification required and the relevant documentation updated and “approved” by the Engineering team.
• Responsible for managing PCS vendor
• Responsible for managing automation functional test team leads
• Responsible for coordinating and liaising with the PCS vendor, package system PLC vendors, and all other automation system vendors who are involved in the functional test.
• Review all PCS SMR requests.
• Cooperate with the Project Coordinator ensuring Commissioning progress follow-up loading and support the Project Coordinator with periodical updating with the latest Functional Test Database. Functional test databases shall include as minimum the list of the logics to be tested and for each logic it shall report the loop checks required to be carried out in order to proceed with the logic test.
• Deliver & communicate progress reports, with support of Project coordinator, to test leads on workfront progress, actual progress, outstanding test functions planned for but not executed, deviation list & obstacles compilation on daily execution basis
• Coordinates 3rd party witnessing of automation functional test
   

Requirements

•  Acts as a contact point towards Commissioning team and focus on ensuring readiness for tests and that preceding tasks are finalized on time
• Organize a Functional Tests review/meeting before the test.
• Confirm that all preliminary activities have been executed
• Coordinate all the actors involved in the test (Field Instrument Technician, Supervisor, etc.)
• Ensure the correct execution of Functional Tests as per applicable standards and schedule.
• Communicate to Engineering & Commissioning team any issue related to Functional test execution and manage overall coordination with site automation engineers.
• Keep the Engineering team informed about any modification required and the relevant documentation updated and “approved” by the Engineering team.
• Responsible for managing PCS vendor
• Responsible for managing automation functional test team leads
• Responsible for coordinating and liaising with the PCS vendor, package system PLC vendors, and all other automation system vendors who are involved in the functional test.
• Review all PCS SMR requests.
• Cooperate with the Project Coordinator ensuring Commissioning progress follow-up loading and support the Project Coordinator with periodical updating with the latest Functional Test Database. Functional test databases shall include as minimum the list of the logics to be tested and for each logic it shall report the loop checks required to be carried out in order to proceed with the logic test.
• Deliver & communicate progress reports, with support of Project coordinator, to test leads on workfront progress, actual progress, outstanding test functions planned for but not executed, deviation list & obstacles compilation on daily execution basis
• Coordinates 3rd party witnessing of automation functional test
   

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