E&I Construction Coordinator

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.
• Strong 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.