Preservation and Project Flawless Coordinator (2-year contract)

Job Description

<h3>Job Description</h3><p>Job Description<p><p><strong>Project</strong></p><p>The <strong>Woodfibre LNG</strong> Project is located approximately 7 km west-southwest of Squamish, British Columbia. It involves the construction and operation of a liquefied natural gas (LNG) export facility on the previous Woodfibre pulp mill site, which would have a storage capacity of 250,000 m3 and would produce approximately 2.1 million tons per year of LNG.</p><p><strong>Woodfibre Management Ltd. </strong>is a privately held Canadian company based in Vancouver and a subsidiary of Pacific Energy Corporation Limited.</p><p><strong>Position</strong></p><p>The <strong>Preservation and Project Flawless Coordinator</strong> is an integral part of <strong>Woodfibre LNG&#39;s</strong> dynamic team. This role reports to the Commissioning Manager, will be responsible for safeguarding all project-critical equipment and systems from deterioration during fabrication, transport, storage, installation, and pre-commissioning. Concurrently, the role drives Project Flawless philosophy across procurement, construction, and commissioning to eliminate defects before they reach site. The role is execution-heavy, discipline-agnostic, and central to avoiding costly rework, schedule delays, and warranty disputes.</p><p></p><p><strong>Key Responsibilities</strong><strong>:</strong></p><p>The successful applicant will conduct:</p><p><strong>Preservation:</strong></p><ul><li>Preservation Management (Mechanical, Electrical, Instrumentation, Static & Rotating Equipment)</li><li>Ensure the EPC contractor has an effective Preservation Execution Plan, aligned with vendor manuals, OEM data sheets, and contract requirements.</li><li>Validate the correctness of detailed Preservation Checklists for all equipment classes (pumps, compressors, turbines, switchgear, MCCs, analyzers, instruments, valves, tanks, vessels, skids, packages).</li><li>Ensure and provide oversight of the Preservation Matrix across procurement, construction, and commissioning.</li><li>Implement Tag-based preservation tracking integrated into materials management (e.g. project-specific CMS).</li><li>Define preservation intervals (7-day, 30-day, etc.) and ensure discipline teams perform required activities.</li><li>Supervise application of desiccants, purging, blinds, oil misting, nitrogen blanket, rotating equipment turning, etc.</li><li>Ensure correct preservation is applied through warehouse and laydown yards.</li><li>Conduct routine preservation audits of site temporary fabrication yards, warehouses, subcontractor facilities, and site storage yards.</li><li>Oversee preservation during transit, lifting, installation, ensuring that rigging and handling do not breach OEM requirements.</li><li>Ensure proper preservation of electrical systems (space heaters, humidity control, insulation tests repeated on defined intervals).</li><li>Ensure that EPC contractor correctly manages temporary power, climate control, and HVAC where environmental exposure (dust, salt, humidity, heat) threatens equipment integrity.</li><li>Lead re-preservation activities prior to system walkdowns, turnover, and commissioning.</li><li>Provide Company sign off on preservation punch lists and ensure closure before subsystem handover.<br /></li></ul><p><strong>Project Flawless Coordination:</strong></p><ul><li>Implement Flawless Project Delivery (FPD) across fabrication, construction, and commissioning.</li><li>Coordinate structured Flawless Reviews: design phase reviews, operations input, readiness reviews, vendor FAT/SAT oversight.</li><li>Maintain and track the Flawless Action Register (FAR) ensuring responsible discipline owners close actions on time.</li><li>Drive Defect Elimination Culture—behaviors, discipline ownership, accountability.</li><li>Facilitate Lessons Learned workshops and ensure actionable items are integrated into the project.</li><li>Monitor Critical Equipment Readiness, ensuring all preservation and quality hold points are met before energization or commissioning.</li><li>Implement Early Engagement with Operations to ensure maintainability, operability, and commissioning logic are validated.</li><li>Conduct Defect & Punchlist Prevention Workshops targeting high-risk systems (utilities, power, rotating machinery, control systems).</li><li>Ensure EPC Contractor tracks system readiness using A-B-C turnover philosophy, ensuring no late discoveries prior to MC and RFC.</li><li>Support RAM, SIL, HF, PSSR, HAZOP/HAZID integration to ensure safety conclusions are implemented in design and field execution.</li><li>Act as the interface coordinator across QA/QC, construction, and commissioning for all Flawless issues.</li></ul><p></p><p><strong>Interface & Controls</strong></p><ul><li>Coordinate with engineering, procurement, logistics, warehouse, fabrication yards, construction, and commissioning to ensure preservation requirements are embedded throughout.</li><li>Ensure EPC Contractor properly manages preservation records into Mechanical Completion systems (PIMS, Go-Completions, Hexagon, etc.).</li><li>Ensure all vendors provide Preservation Certificates, data sheets, and preservation summary reports prior to acceptance.</li><li>Oversee preservation during delays, ensuring long-lead equipment is not compromised during prolonged storage or incomplete installation.</li><li>Report KPI performance to senior management:</li><li>Develop mitigation plans where preservation failures or defect risks threaten critical-path systems.</li><li>Raise NCRs where preservation has not been carried out as per vendor recommendations. </li></ul><p><strong>Requirements</strong></p><p><strong>Professional Experience</strong></p><ul><li>20 years in Oil & Gas, Refinery, Petrochemical, LNG, or similar heavy industrial PMC/EPC projects.</li><li>Minimum 5 year’s direct experience in preservation management & equipment integrity.</li><li>Minimum 5 year’s experience in Project Flawless delivery, preferably within a major IOC.</li><li>Strong background in operations, commissioning, mechanical completion, QA/QC, and construction activities.</li><li>Demonstrated history managing preservation of rotating equipment, static equipment, electrical systems, instrumentation, analyzers, and packaged equipment.</li></ul><p></p><p><strong>Additional Requirements</strong><strong>:</strong></p><ul><li>Experience working with large multi-disciplinary teams and contractors in a multicultural environment is an asset.</li><li><span >Communication/interpersonal</span> skills – interacting with front-line workers through to management and all hierarchical levels.</li><li>Accepts responsibility and demonstrates a commitment to the delivery of tasks and targets.</li><li>Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.</li><li>Ability to be Innovative and vision-oriented with demonstrated ability to undertake strategic planning and implementation.</li><li>Ability to work well under pressure, handle multiple tasks, and change priorities within tight time frames.</li><li>Demonstrates and seeks accountability within the team.</li><li>Ability to work collaboratively within a team environment.</li><li>Expertise with a variety of computer programs (programs (e.g., Office 365, MS teams, MS Visio, MS Project Control, Teams, Adobe Acrobat, DocuSign)</li><li>Motivated and willing to take ownership of tasks.</li><li>Energetic in pursuit of continuous improvement processes.</li><li>Shares knowledge readily and encourages personal development.</li><li>A valid driver’s license and passport.</li><li><strong>Must be legally entitled to work in Canada.</strong></li><li>This role will be a combination of office and site based.</li><li><strong>The position is based in Squamish, BC (Project Site), with an initial stay period at the Vancouver Office in and a visit to the Site Project as required. </strong></li></ul><p></p><p><em><strong>Only qualified candidates legally entitled to work in Canada will be contacted.</strong></em></p><p></p><p><strong>Woodfibre Management Ltd. </strong>is an equal opportunity employer.</p><p></p><p>Thank you in advance for your interest!</p><p><strong>Benefits</strong></p><p>Salary range: CAD 120,000 - 140,000 /yr</p></p></p>