Job Purpose

•   Provide Company oversight of the Major Onshore Project EPC Contractors compliance with RLIC Fire & Life Safety Regulations across both permanent and temporary facilities. This includes construction camps (>40,000 pax), construction temporary facilities (batching plants, fabrication shops, on site offices, site mess halls, general and chemical storage, etc.) as well as contractor offices. 

•   Support the monitoring of the operation and maintenance of Contractor camps and tempories to ensure that they remain compliant with code. 

•   Develop reporting on areas of concern, non compliances with contractual obligations and corrective actions required in permanent and temporary facilities.  

•   Maintain relationship with RLIC Fire Rescue and Fire Engineering Department, ensuring clear lines of communication when it comes to ensuring project compliance with RLIC Fire & Life Safety Regulations. 

Key Job Accountabilities

•   Provide the Deputy Site Manager/Camps and Facilities Services Division Manager with assurance that Major Project Contractors operating within RLIC are compliant with their obligations to meet RLIC Fire & Life Safety Regulations

•   Implement a system of inspections and reporting to assure Contractor compliance on temporary facilities.

•   Support and guide contractors during construction and commissioning phases to ensure that they meet RLIC requirements. 

•   Develop reports on the status of both EPC permanent and temporary facilities covering all aspects of fire and life safety.

•   Assure that fire management readiness plans are in place across all Major Project work sites.

•   Engage and liase with RLIC fire departments to support necessary approvals, inspections and close out of actions. 

•   Review submittals, i.e architectural, fire & life safety, firefighting and fire alarm drawings, material submittals, third party certifications, commissioning reports, etc. in PIMS and other systems.

•   Establish a forum with all EPC Fire Protection Coordinators, to ensure consistency wrt Fire & Life Safety Regulations, QCDD Regulations and NFPA Code requirements, share lessons learned and maintain tracking system of all certificate of occupancies issued.

•   Attend Commissioning/Functional Testing of Fire & Life Safety Systems.

•   Attend Hazop/Hazid Studies for temporary and permanent facilities;

•   Attend joint walk-throughs with RLIC Engineering Team for purposes of obtaining Certificate Of Occupancy.

•   Attend Fire & Emergency Exercises and ensure all shortcomings are adequately closed out.

•   Ensure ITM of all portable fire equipment and Fire Systems are carried out by QCDD approved Contractors.

•   Ensure all Fire Inspection Records and ITM Reports are stored in suitable filing system.

Skills

Qualifications

•   Bachelor degree/Bachelor Of Technology in Fire Engineering or equivalent or experienced in a Senior Officer position in the Fire Service.

Knowledge and Key Skills

•   Minimum of 10 years’ practicing Fire and Life Safety in the Oil & Gas Industry and Construction Environment

•   Intimate knowledge of RLIC and specifically RLIC Fire and Life Regulations.

•   Experience of having worked for RLIC Fire Rescue and Fire Engineering.