Electrical Lead (East)

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Yanacocha Water Treatment Plant (WTP):

Located 800 km northeast of Lima, Peru, Yanacocha is South America’s largest gold mine. The WTP Project consists of two of the largest acid water treatment plants in South America (the West one with capacity of 3,000 m3/hour and the East one with 2,700 m3/hour). Early works are currently being performed on site, preparing the permanent platforms and laydown areas for the East and West plants, in addition to the Class 2 estimate, Level 3 schedule and Execution Plan.

Job Summary:

This role, will be responsible for the planning and leading the electrical activities of the pre-commissioning of the project. You will identify risks and trends, prepare energization procedures and test protocols, manage progress reports and proactively course correct to ensure objectives, deadlines and requirements are met.

Major Responsibilities:

• Energizing Safely and efficiently the Project's electrical systems. This includes coordinating with other disciplines and organizations to prepare and execute a plan to complete all pre-energization and post-energization electrical testing as well, when required.
• Leading the Pre-Commissioning electrical team of the project, assigning priorities and doing continuous and daily monitoring of the execution of the scheduled tasks.
• Having the Safety, Health and Environmental (ES&H) concepts and procedures of the project incorporated into the day-to-day during the planning and execution of the tests. Ensure that each member of the work teams lives embedded in the ES&H process.
• Preparing activity plans and testing at component level, at subsystem level and integrated testing at system level when required, provide training as required.
• Ensuring that the Blocking and Labeling process (LOTO) for energy isolation is followed to the letter in each of the associated field activities.
• Ensuring the detailed preparation of Red Line documentation, for each change to be generated in the field with respect to the originally approved design. Coordinate with the Field Engineering and Home Office Engineering teams to ensure that these changes are eventually translated into ‘As-Built’ documentation.
• Preparing Energization procedures for each of the main project teams. Managing the issue of Energization Notifications.
• Participating in the coordination of the electrical Tie-in activities of the project, ensuring compliance with each of the electrical tests that are required.
• Preparing detailed plans for the electrical pre-commissioning of the project.
• Leading the electrical testing service contract, to ensure the safe and efficient execution of the activities.
• Directing, carrying out and participating in the process of Turnover / delivery of the subsystems / systems, both from construction to Commissioning, including the development, monitoring and resolution of the items on the to-do list (punch list) related to electrical equipment.

Education and Experience Requirements:

• Requires a degree in Electrical Engineering with more than 10 years of experience in testing and energization of Medium Voltage (up to 33 kV) and Low Voltage (up to 480 Volts) equipment, with a minimum of 8 years of experience in pre-commissioning and commissioning.
• Relevant experience in substation testing (protection relays and TC and TT testing (primary injection, secondary injection), electrical distribution.

Required Knowledge and Skills:

• Knowledge of the regulatory and industry standards applicable to mining projects in Peru, and of the design criteria relevant to electrical systems (ANSI/IEEE/NETA) for the development of test plans and procedures.
• Mandatory computer skills (Outlook, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, etc.)
• Previous experience with Bechtel start-up processes and procedures, in addition to managed/supervised start-up activities on one or more large-scale projects.
• Must be able to read and understand/interpret electrical schematics, SLD, wiring, instrument loops and mechanical drawings of PFD.
• Technical knowledge of commissioning, operation, maintenance or testing and troubleshooting.
• Knowledge of engineering systems and calculations, applications of engineering and commissioning methods.
• Responsible for reviewing project designs and making recommendations for design changes to make projects safe during the energization and commissioning process.
• Deep knowledge in electrical equipment such as GIS (Gas Insulated Switchgears) of 22.9 kV, Switchgears in general, Transformers, Power Switches, Motor Control Center, Diesel Generators, Asynchronous Motors, Variable Speed Drives, UPS, Battery Bank and chargers, etc., and the control and operation philosophies associated with this equipment.

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