Tagging Authority/LOTO

Bechtel Corporation • Lake Charles, LA

6d • Onsite

About The Position

The Tagging Authority/LOTO Coordinator supports startup activities for the Louisiana LNG project near Lake Charles, Louisiana. The role assists with technical direction, installation configuration validation, and work-package development, while contributing to work planning, turnover coordination, material management, quality control, and environmental safety and health. The position helps ensure equipment, systems, and activities operate in compliance with plans and design.

The role coordinates startup and commissioning work packages, planning and scheduling, construction-to-startup turnover walkdowns, material requisitions and tracking, configuration-validation walkdowns, and equipment testing. As the assigned Lock Out Tag Out (LOTO) Coordinator, the employee administers the LOTO program and coordinates LOTO activities, determining whether requested clearances provide a safe working environment for personnel working within their boundaries. The coordinator works with Startup System Specialists, Operations personnel, and employees performing work under the LOTO program. Work may involve all shifts, overtime, weekends, and holidays as needed.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or international equivalent and 2–5 years of relevant experience, or 6–9 years of relevant work experience.
• Prior precommissioning, commissioning, and startup experience.
• Prior CoP Liquefaction plant startup experience.
• Understanding of detailed phases of startup, operations, or maintenance for a project.
• Ability to review plant operability and jobsite pre-commissioning and startup activities for safety implications.
• Ability to plan and coordinate independent work using judgment and experience in applying and adapting operations and startup techniques.
• Ability to devise new approaches to operations problems.
• Broad knowledge of industry precedents.
• At least 5 years of plant operations experience.
• At least 5 years of startup experience.
• Expert proficiency in safety/tagging.
• Advanced proficiency in field document control.
• Intermediate proficiency in gas processing/treatment.
• Advanced proficiency in CP200 General Safe Work Practices.
• Availability to work all shifts, overtime, weekends, and holidays as required.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate installation configuration validation and startup work-package development.
• Plan and schedule CSU execution activities, including sequencing and resource requirements for assigned areas.
• Coordinate preparation of Startup Work Packages and Test Work Packages.
• Coordinate Construction-to-CSU turnover walkdowns and support component and system turnover with Field Engineers.
• Initiate field-purchase requisitions and prepare quantity takeoffs for field-purchased materials and equipment.
• Track field purchases and other purchases required for CSU using procurement systems or database programs.
• Coordinate walkdowns to confirm system configuration conforms to design.
• Perform or monitor equipment testing to verify conformance with specifications and test procedures, safe work methods, and schedule and cost requirements.
• Identify and elevate field ES&H issues and demonstrate good ES&H practices.
• Administer the Lock Out Tag Out program and coordinate LOTO activities.
• Determine whether requested LOTO clearances provide a safe working environment for personnel working within the clearance boundary.
• Coordinate as required among Startup System Specialists, Operations personnel, and personnel performing work under the LOTO program.

Benefits

• Robust benefits intended to support employee well-being, career advancement, culture, and time to recharge; specific benefit offerings are not detailed.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level