Job title: Field Engineer - System Turnover and PSSR
Project: I-10 Pipe Rack Relocation Project
Start Date: 1/4/2027 - 1/3/2028
Location: Lake Charles, LA.
Pay rate: $85+ hr.
Schedule: 40 hours a week.
Local candidates - No per diem
PTS Advance has a great opportunity in Lake Charles, LA. Our client is looking for a Field Engineer that will support construction, system turnover, commissioning, and startup activities for capital projects and facility modifications.
This role coordinates with Engineering, Construction, Operations, Maintenance, HSE/Process Safety, Quality, and Contractors to ensure systems are complete, documented, and ready for safe start up and operations.
The ideal candidate has strong experience with system turnover, mechanical completion requirements, punch-list management, field verification, and Pre-Startup Safety Review (PSSR) execution.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide field engineering support during construction, commissioning, and startup.
- Verify that installed equipment, piping, electrical, instrumentation, controls, and safety systems conform to approved drawings and specifications.
- Develop and maintain system boundaries, turnover sequences, acceptance criteria, and system completion status.
- Coordinate turnover packages, including drawings, P&IDs, vendor data, inspection and test records, calibration certificates, redlines, and as-built documentation.
- Lead system walkdowns and identify incomplete, deficient, or nonconforming work.
Succes measures:
- Turnover packages are complete, accurate, and accepted by Operations.
- Punch-list items are clearly owned, prioritized, tracked, verified, and closed or formally transferred.
- PSSR and pre-startup actions are complete before startup approval.
- Systems are commissioned safely, efficiently, and in accordance with approved design and operating requirements.
Punch-List Management
- Develop and maintain punch lists by system, discipline, responsible party, and required completion date.
- Classify punch-list items as pre-startup, post-startup, deferred, or contractual work.
- Assign ownership, prioritize critical items, track status, and drive timely closure.
- Verify completed corrective work in the field and ensure supporting documentation is included in the turnover package.
- Coordinate with Operations and Maintenance to confirm that deferred or post-startup items are properly transferred and managed.
- Report open punch-list risks and turnover constraints to project leadership.
PSSR and Startup Readiness
- Plan, coordinate, and participate in PSSR activities for new or modified facilities and systems.
- Confirm construction completion, equipment integrity, testing, safety-system readiness, procedures, training, and required documentation.
- Track MOC, PHA, PSSR, and pre-startup actions to completion or approved disposition.
- Coordinate field verification with Operations, HSE/Process Safety, Engineering, Maintenance, Quality, and contractors.
- Obtain required approvals before systems are placed in service or startup begins.
- Support Operations during commissioning and initial startup.
Required Qualifications
- BS degree in Engineering, Construction management, Engineering technology, or a related technical field; equivalent experience may be considered.
- 5+ years of experience in field engineering, construction, commissioning, project completion, or industrial facility execution.
- Demonstrated experience with system turnover, mechanical completion, punch-list management, and PSSR activities.
- Ability to read and interpret P&IDs, equipment drawings, specifications, electrical one-lines, and vendor documentation.
- Working knowledge of Management of Change, Process Safety Management, Process Hazard Analysis, and startup-readiness requirements.
- Strong communication, documentation, coordination, and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to work in active construction and operating environments, including extended hours during commissioning, turnaround, and startup activities.
Preferred Experience
- Refining, petrochemical, chemical processing, pipeline, terminal, power, or other industrial facilities.
- Brownfield projects, turnarounds, tie-ins, phased commissioning, or major capital projects.
- Electronic completion-management, document-control, scheduling, or project-management systems.
- Contractor coordination, quality documentation, functional testing, loop checks, pressure testing, flushing, energization, or equipment startup.