Senior Operations Specialist, Salt Production Facility
Kairos PowerAlbuquerque, NM
Required qualifications
- coordinating or supporting system turnover and operational readiness activities. interpreting engineering drawings, P&IDs, equipment documentation, and technical specifications. providing technical guidance to operations or commissioning personnel. reviewing engineering designs from an operational and field-execution perspective. developing or executing commissioning plans, startup plans, operating procedures, test packages, or system turnover documentation. participating in equipment inspection, FAT, SAT, construction walkdowns, punch listing, system turnover, or acceptance activities. working collaboratively with multidisciplinary Engineering, Construction, Operations, Maintenance, and other project stakeholders. working in facilities involving hazardous materials, complex chemical processes, high-temperature systems, or comparable industrial hazards preferred. supporting PSSR, PHA/HAZOP, MOC, operational readiness, or comparable process-safety activities preferred.
- Knowledge, Skills &.
- Abilities: Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot complex plant and equipment issues and develop practical field solutions.
- Knowledge of industrial piping systems, valves, rotating and fixed equipment, utility systems, instrumentation, and process con
About this role
Kairos Power is seeking a highly motivated Senior Operations Specialist to serve as a senior technical resource within the Operations organization supporting plant design, construction, commissioning, startup, and transition to routine operations.
Responsibilities
- Serve as the Operations group’s technical specialist for plant design, construction, commissioning, and startup, providing experienced operational judgment from engineering design through turnover to routine plant operations.
- Review engineering designs for operability and commissioning readiness, including Utility system, Piping and valve arrangements, Equipment layouts and accessibility, Isolation strategies, and Control strategies and system interfaces.
- Identify plant designs that may be difficult or unsafe to operate, commission, isolate, or maintain, and work collaboratively with Engineering to develop practical alternatives.
- Recommend improvements to equipment arrangement, routing, valving, accessibility, and other design features that affect safe and reliable plant operation.
- Represent Operations during equipment fabrication, construction, installation, testing, and acceptance activities.
- Participate in field verification and validation of operating and commissioning procedures, system configurations, and design assumptions before turnover to Operations.
- Capture and incorporate commissioning, startup, and operating lessons learned into procedures, design improvements, and future project activities.
- Support verification that required operating procedures, technical documentation, drawings, and system information are available and suitable for turnover to Operations.
- Participate in and support Factory Acceptance Testing (FAT), equipment receipt planning, Site Acceptance Testing (SAT), and field inspections.
- Independently identify, document, communicate, and drive resolution of construction and installation deficiencies that could affect safe or reliable operation, and work with appropriate stakeholders to support their resolution, including Flange integrity and torquing, Bolting and mounting, Fixed-equipment installation, Equipment accessibility, Piping, valve, and component configuration.
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