Pre-Commissioning Manager at Worley in USA-TX-Houston

Pre-Commissioning Manager

Play an integral role in bringing complex industrial facilities safely and efficiently from construction completion through commissioning, startup, and operational readiness. As Pre-Commissioning Manager, you will provide leadership across multidisciplinary pre-commissioning activities, ensuring systems and equipment are prepared, tested, verified, and ready for safe transition into commissioning and operation.

Working at the critical interface between engineering, construction, commissioning, vendors, contractors, and operations, you will coordinate electrical, instrumentation, mechanical, and operational readiness activities. Your leadership will directly influence safety, system completion, schedule performance, startup readiness, and the successful delivery of complex energy, chemicals, and resources projects.

Purpose of the role

The Pre-Commissioning Manager is responsible for planning, coordinating, and executing multidisciplinary pre-commissioning activities that prepare facilities and systems for safe commissioning, startup, and operation.

You will coordinate pre-commissioning scope across electrical, instrumentation, mechanical, and operations disciplines while working closely with vendors during testing of rotating, fired, static, and other equipment. You will oversee energized functional testing in accordance with approved procedures and provide clear direction to pre-commissioning personnel and subcontractors, maintaining a strong focus on health, safety, environmental performance, quality, and operational readiness.

You will also review project designs and execution plans to identify opportunities that improve safety, operability, maintainability, commissioning readiness, and long-term facility performance.

You will be responsible for

• Leading pre-commissioning activities and coordinating interfaces with commissioning, startup, construction, engineering, and operations to support safe and timely project completion.
• Developing and implementing pre-commissioning execution strategies, system priorities, procedures, schedules, and readiness plans.
• Coordinating electrical, instrumentation, mechanical, and operations pre-commissioning scopes to ensure integrated execution across project systems.
• Overseeing functional testing, loop checks, equipment testing, system verification, and operational readiness activities.
• Coordinating energized functional testing in accordance with approved procedures while maintaining rigorous HSE controls.
• Coordinating vendors during testing and verification of rotating, fired, static, packaged, and other equipment as required.
• Providing direction to pre-commissioning personnel, contractors, and subcontractors regarding execution priorities, system requirements, and required actions.
• Reviewing engineering designs, specifications, vendor documentation, and construction deliverables to identify issues affecting commissioning, operability, maintainability, or startup readiness.
• Coordinating system completion, punch-list resolution, turnover documentation, and handover requirements with construction and commissioning stakeholders.
• Collaborating with engineering, construction, procurement, quality, commissioning, project controls, and operations teams to identify constraints and resolve complex execution challenges.
• Monitoring pre-commissioning progress, system readiness, outstanding work, and schedule priorities and implementing recovery or mitigation actions where required.
• Supporting commissioning readiness reviews and ensuring prerequisite construction and pre-commissioning activities are complete before systems progress to subsequent phases.
• Championing a proactive approach to HSE throughout testing, energization, equipment preparation, and system turnover activities.
• Preparing and presenting progress reports, readiness assessments, execution updates, risks, and recommendations to project leadership and customer stakeholders.
• Optimizing pre-commissioning systems, processes, tools, and work practices to improve execution efficiency and operational excellence.
• Promoting collaboration, accountability, technical excellence, and continuous improvement across the pre-commissioning organization.

About us

Worley is a global company of energy, chemicals and resources experts headquartered in Australia. We partner with our customers to deliver projects and create value across the life of their assets. We specialize in consulting, engineering, procurement and construction across the project lifecycle, with services extending through to operations and decommissioning. Leveraging extensive experience and AI-enabled delivery, we support customers in navigating complexity as they meet today's needs and transition to more sustainable solutions.

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What you’ll bring to the role

You are an experienced commissioning professional with deep knowledge of complex industrial facilities and the ability to integrate multiple technical disciplines during the transition from construction to commissioning and startup. You combine hands-on execution expertise with strong leadership, technical judgment, and the ability to coordinate contractors, vendors, specialists, and project stakeholders in demanding field environments.

Key qualifications include:

• Demonstrated expertise in functional testing, loop checks, and operational readiness practices.
• University degree in Engineering or a related technical discipline, or an equivalent trade qualification supported by relevant training and extensive industry experience.
• Significant experience delivering pre-commissioning, commissioning, startup, and systems completion activities on large, complex industrial projects.
• Strong technical understanding of electrical, instrumentation, mechanical, and operational pre-commissioning requirements.
• Experience coordinating testing of rotating equipment, fired equipment, static equipment, packaged systems, and associated facility systems.
• Experience with energized functional testing, system verification, equipment readiness, and safe transition between construction and commissioning.
• Strong understanding of systems completion, turnover, punch management, commissioning sequencing, and operational readiness.
• Proven ability to coordinate multidisciplinary personnel, contractors, subcontractors, vendors, and technical specialists across complex project environments.
• Experience reviewing engineering deliverables and identifying issues affecting constructability, commissioning, operability, maintainability, and startup.
• Strong knowledge of industrial HSE requirements associated with testing, energization, stored energy, equipment operation, and commissioning activities.
• Advanced understanding of pre-commissioning systems, processes, reporting tools, and digital platforms, with the ability to troubleshoot issues and improve execution practices.
• Excellent communication, presentation, stakeholder engagement, influencing, and conflict-resolution skills.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities with the ability to balance safety, quality, schedule, technical, and operational requirements.
• Experience supporting major projects within the energy, chemicals, resources, power, LNG, petrochemical, refining, or other industrial sectors.
• Commitment to safety leadership, environmental stewardship, operational excellence, continuous improvement, and sustainable project delivery.

Benefits

Feel the energy at Worley with access to a range of benefits including: paid-time off, holiday pay (usually 8 per year in the US), and eligibility to participate in the medical, life, dental, and vision insurance plans, as well as 401K plan.

Apply today

If you are ready to lead the critical transition from construction completion to commissioning and operational readiness, we encourage you to apply. Join a global organization where your technical expertise, field leadership, and commitment to safe execution will help bring complex industrial facilities successfully into operation.

Moving forward together

We want our people to be energized and empowered to drive sustainable impact. So, our focus is on a values-inspired culture that unlocks brilliance through belonging, connection and innovation. We're building a diverse, inclusive and respectful workplace. Creating a space where everyone feels they belong, can be themselves, and are heard.

And we're not just talking about it; we're doing it. We're reskilling our people, leveraging transferable skills, and supporting the transition of our workforce to become experts in today's low carbon energy infrastructure and technology. Whatever your ambition, there's a path for you here.

And there's no barrier to your potential career success. Join us to broaden your horizons, explore diverse opportunities, and be part of delivering sustainable change.

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