Our client, a major Oil and Gas company, is looking for an E&I; Construction Coordinator to join their team on an 1-year contract in Fort McMurray, AB (fly in/ fly out from Calgary or Edmonton).

Primary Focus

E&I; field execution, safety, Integrated Readiness, constructability, quality, system integration, constraint management, contractor coordination, schedule performance, testing, turnover, and commissioning readiness.

Core Interfaces

Electrical & Instrumentation Contractors, Operations, Maintenance, Electrical Engineering, Instrumentation & Controls Engineering, Field Engineering, Quality, Turnover, Commissioning, RFO, Turnaround (TA), EHS, Project Controls, Procurement, and other project stakeholders.

Key Accountabilities

- Ensure assigned E&I; work areas are execution-ready and aligned with U2X priorities, project schedule milestones, TA requirements, system turnover requirements, and operational requirements.
- Provide visible field leadership and promote a strong safety culture throughout E&I; construction activities.
- Coordinate daily E&I; construction activities between Contractors, Operations, Maintenance, Engineering, Quality, Commissioning, RFO, Turnover, TA, and other project stakeholders.
- Identify and drive resolution of E&I; constraints impacting safety, quality, productivity, cost, schedule, system completion, or workfront availability.
- Verify E&I; field work is executed in accordance with approved drawings, work packages, specifications, procedures, permits, standards, and construction execution plans.
- Support implementation of Integrated Readiness, Advanced Work Packaging (AWP), CWP, IWP, Path of Construction, and constraint management processes .
- Confirm E&I; workfront readiness, including engineering, materials, equipment, cable, access, scaffolding, permits, isolations, vendor support, testing requirements, and other prerequisites.
- Participate in E&I; constructability reviews, model reviews, design reviews, field walkdowns, and construction planning sessions.
- Review electrical and instrumentation installation requirements and identify constructability, access, sequencing, congestion, and installation concerns.
- Coordinate E&I; interfaces with civil, structural, mechanical, piping, equipment, insulation, scaffolding, and other disciplines.
- Provide construction input to Engineering and identify opportunities for design optimization, improved constructability, prefabrication, productivity improvements, and reduction of field rework.
- Coordinate brownfield E&I; tie-ins, shutdown requirements, isolations, equipment outages, and interfaces with existing operating systems.
- Monitor E&I; contractor readiness and performance and escalate risks, delays, resource concerns, technical issues, and field execution challenges.
- Support E&I; testing, inspection, turnover, Commissioning, RFO, start-up, and operational handover.
- Proactively advance future E&I; scopes, particularly high-risk, long-lead, outage-dependent, and TA-critical activities.

Electrical Construction Coordination

- Coordinate installation of electrical equipment, cable tray, conduit, cable, grounding, lighting, heat tracing, power distribution, and associated electrical systems.
- Review equipment locations, cable routing, cable tray routing, access, installation sequence, and field interfaces.
- Coordinate electrical equipment installation and interfaces with mechanical and structural construction activities.
- Monitor cable pulling, termination, testing,



identification, and completion activities.
- Coordinate energization prerequisites and ensure construction activities are aligned with approved energization plans and procedures.
- Identify existing facility electrical interfaces and ensure required outages, isolations, and tie-ins are incorporated into execution planning.
- Support resolution of field changes, clashes, installation issues, and Engineering RFIs.

Instrumentation & Controls Construction Coordination

- Coordinate installation of field instruments, control devices, junction boxes, instrument tubing, instrument cable, communication systems, and associated infrastructure.
- Review instrument locations, accessibility, maintainability, routing, installation details, and process connections.
- Coordinate instrumentation interfaces with piping, mechanical equipment, electrical systems, DCS/SIS/control systems, and vendor packages.
- Support planning and coordination of instrument calibration, loop checks, functional testing, and system completion.
- Coordinate construction interface requirements for DCS, SIS, PLC, packaged equipment controls, and other control-system modifications.
- Ensure instrumentation work is sequenced appropriately to support mechanical completion, turnover, commissioning, and start-up.
- Identify brownfield control-system interfaces and support planning of cutovers and TA-dependent activities.

Integrated Execution & Constructability

- Support integrated E&I; planning with Construction, Engineering, Commissioning, RFO, TA, Maintenance, and Operations.
- Participate in model reviews and field walkdowns to validate E&I; routing, accessibility, maintainability, and installation feasibility.
- Identify potential clashes and interfaces between E&I; installations and piping, mechanical, structural, scaffolding, insulation, and other disciplines.
- Ensure temporary access and scaffold requirements for E&I; installation, testing, and commissioning are identified early.
- Coordinate E&I; work sequencing with mechanical completion and system turnover priorities.
- Identify opportunities to complete work outside TA or outage windows where safely and technically feasible.
- Support Engineering optimization to reduce brownfield field installation complexity and execution risk.

Operations & Maintenance Integration

- Ensure E&I; construction activities are integrated with plant operating plans, equipment availability, and production priorities.
- Coordinate with Operations and Maintenance for permits, isolations, electrical outages, equipment shutdowns, tie-ins, cutovers, energization, and access requirements.
- Participate in Operations Readiness Reviews and integrated execution planning meetings.
- Ensure new and modified E&I; installations consider safe access, operability, maintainability, inspection, and future maintenance requirements.
- Support safe execution of E&I; work within active operating units while minimizing disruption to facility operations.
- Coordinate SIMOPS and interfaces between construction activities and energized or operating equipment.

Turnaround Integration





- Identify E&I; work requiring plant outages, equipment shutdowns, electrical isolations, process isolation, or Turnaround execution windows.
- Support development and readiness of E&I; scopes planned for U2X Turnaround execution.
- Ensure TA-dependent E&I; work is sufficiently engineered, planned, packaged, material-ready, and constructible before the applicable execution window.
- Coordinate pre-TA work to maximize work completed before shutdown.
- Identify opportunities to reduce TA duration and field congestion by advancing work outside the TA window.
- Coordinate E&I; activities with other disciplines to establish an integrated TA execution sequence.

Testing, Turnover & Commissioning

- Coordinate construction completion requirements with Quality, Turnover, Commissioning, and RFO teams.
- Support progressive system and subsystem turnover.
- Monitor completion of inspection and testing documentation.
- Support electrical testing, equipment checks, cable testing, instrument calibration, loop checks, functional testing, and commissioning readiness.
- Coordinate completion and resolution of E&I; deficiencies and punch-list items.
- Ensure construction completion priorities align with system turnover and commissioning sequence.
- Support energization, commissioning, start-up, and final handover to Operations and Maintenance.

Future Work Development

- Support progressive development of future U2X E&I; construction scopes.
- Identify high-risk, high-priority, long-lead, outage-dependent, and schedule-critical E&I; activities.
- Advance field verification, constructability, routing, execution strategy, isolation requirements, temporary works, scaffold requirements, and tie-in planning.
- Identify E&I; equipment and material requirements that could impact construction readiness or schedule.
- Support early development of TA-dependent tie-ins, electrical outages, control-system cutovers, and commissioning requirements.
- Identify and progress opportunities to reduce future execution risk, field congestion, schedule duration, and rework.

Minimum Qualifications – Experience

- Minimum 15 years of construction experience within oil and gas, mining, oil sands, petrochemical, refinery, or heavy industrial facilities.
- Minimum 10 years of E&I; construction or construction coordination experience within active brownfield operating facilities.
- Solid knowledge of electrical, instrumentation, and controls construction practices.
- Experience supporting major Turnaround (TA) planning and execution activities.
- Experience with brownfield E&I; tie-ins, electrical outages, isolations, energization, control-system cutovers, testing, and commissioning.
- Experience with Advanced Work Packaging (AWP), Integrated Readiness, CWP/IWP development, Path of Construction, and constraint management.
- Experience coordinating Construction, Engineering, Operations, Maintenance, Commissioning, Turnover, and TA interfaces.
- Experience on large brownfield capital projects, facility modifications, equipment replacements, and operating-plant tie-ins.
- Experience with digital construction and readiness platforms such as O3 Solutions is an asset.
- Electrical or Instrumentation trade certification, technical diploma, engineering technology background, or equivalent relevant field experience is preferred.
- Experience supporting complex brownfield execution within operating oil sands facilities is strongly preferred.

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