Commissioning and Start-up Specialist

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Job Summary: The Commissioning and Start-up Specialist will support the manager in completing industrial plant assemblies, managing commissioning execution, and providing technical support to customers. Key Highlights: 1. Participate in the completion of industrial plant assembly processes. 2. Support the management of all commissioning execution phases. 3. Conduct training for the client's operations teams. Job family: Project \& Site Management Business area: Pulp \& Paper Multiple Contract location: Curitiba, Parana, BR Working location: Curitiba Location type: Office Location / Office\-based Contract type: Permanent Job description: Every day, ANDRITZ continues to deliver successful innovative solutions to our customers globally. Why are we so successful? Because we are passionate and love what we do! We are at the forefront of future engineering technologies, with solutions that ensure the success of our clients in key industries that are shaping the future of the world we live in. **ANDRITZ** stands for Passion, Partnership, Perspectives, and Versatility—core values to which the company is committed. **Passion:** Do you love what you do? Do you strive to bring out the best in yourself? **Partnership:** Are you seeking a position where you can be accessible and authentic with all our partners? **Perspectives:** Are you willing to explore new paths, technologies, and promising solutions for the future of **ANDRITZ**? **Versatility:** Are you willing to face new challenges and handle them flexibly and creatively? If yes, this is your opportunity! Work location \- Curitiba \- PR As a **Commissioning and Start-up Specialist**, your **key responsibilities** include: * + Participate alongside site management teams in finalizing industrial plant assembly processes at the client’s manufacturing facilities, supporting the Commissioning and Start-up Manager in analyzing the entire civil, electrical, automation, instrumentation, piping, and process engineering assembly structure to identify potential civil engineering and assembly defects + Support the Commissioning and Start-up Manager in defining commissioning priorities, based on areas of highest complexity, highest volume of instruments, and those requiring early start-up, to initiate the commissioning process. + Support the Commissioning and Start-up Manager in managing all commissioning execution phases per discipline and equipment of the client’s industrial plant, assisting commissioning engineering teams in adhering to the defined schedule and all associated documentation workflows—such as inspection checklists, progress curves, verification of equipment and instrument release protocols, inspection procedures per equipment, integration levels among engineering disciplines and other variables—ensuring identification and technical resolution of all operational and technological failures, aiming for full functionality of all plant equipment. + Participate in meetings with the client together with the Commissioning Manager of the area, and substitute for them when necessary, always striving to build strong client relationships. + Support the Commissioning and Start-up Manager in developing the training and qualification plan for the client’s operations and maintenance teams, ensuring proper handling of equipment from the commissioning phase through factory start-up and formal handover of the plant to the client. + Deliver training to the client’s operations teams—including operators and equipment and process operations managers—covering technological descriptions of equipment, operation principles, operating modes, adjustment parameters, troubleshooting parameters, and other relevant variables, based on the training plan, clarifying doubts and evaluating initial hands-on operation to ensure operational functionality. + Ensure organization and control of all documents generated during commissioning processes, making them available to clients and archiving them with Andritz’s responsible project teams, maintaining commissioning history for future improvements, overhauls, maintenance, etc. + Ensure cleaning of all equipment and associated piping during commissioning processes to prevent equipment risks during operation. + Support the Commissioning and Start-up Manager in managing post-commissioning and cleaning activities, including Water Run processes to finalize measurement instrument calibration, new motor tests, group start/stop tests, new control logic adjustments, and other procedures aimed at final preparation for start-up. + Support the Commissioning and Start-up Manager in managing the industrial plant start-up, assisting in human resource scheduling for operations and defining responsibilities for multidisciplinary engineering teams to provide appropriate technical support and guidance to the client’s operators during first production/start-up actions, evaluating results in terms of equipment adjustments per discipline, process parameter tuning, equipment performance regarding temperature, vibration, noise, belt drive activation, piping vibration, and other operational and maintenance aspects, ensuring documentation of evolution and implemented adjustments to achieve plant stability in the shortest possible time. + Provide post-plant acceptance certification support to the client, remaining available for due guidance and clarification or delivering additional training as required, ensuring plant operability. + Support execution of final plant acceptance tests. + Promote synergy among multidisciplinary commissioning teams, considering diverse nationalities and cultures, motivation levels, technical and behavioral competencies, attendance, client relationship levels, standardization of deliverables, and other premises, aiming to achieve commissioning and start-up targets. + Actively develop solutions upon client request, assessing needs, developing solution alternatives, and involving other multidisciplinary teams as needed. + Pursue new business opportunities with new or existing clients by conducting technical visits to map needs, gathering information, proposing technical solutions, submitting cost allocations, and generating technical-commercial proposals for subsequent negotiation and implementation as applicable. + Develop client relationships across multiple factories using a consistent “factory language.” + Support sales with an operational perspective to address each factory’s operational needs. + Serve as the technical lead responsible for project/construction execution and for technical leadership (guidance and development) of the team. We expect you to possess the following **technical competencies**: * + CALCULATIONS \- Relate concepts schematically and technically using logical reasoning, analyzing and combining data to solve problems. + EQUIPMENT AND TECHNOLOGIES FOR PULP AND PAPER PRODUCTION \- Equipment applied in pulp and paper manufacturing processes—such as digesters, boilers, motors, pumps—and other related technologies aligned with responsibilities of this role. + AUTOMATED CONTROL STRATEGIES \- Process of managing automated production activities, including definition of programming logic for systems and equipment governing process operations. + PROCESS MANAGEMENT \- Use of tools and techniques applied to monitoring, analysis, and management of routine processes. May include decision-making that modifies processes for continuous improvement and greater efficiency. + METRIZ \- IIOT tool developed by Andritz for customized use with clients + PRODUCTIVE PROCESSES \- Knowledge of processes involved in industrial operations—including production itself, installation, preservation, and maintenance of equipment and machinery used, safety-related equipment and applications for accident prevention, and other aspects of industrial operations. + Office Suite (Intermediate Excel) + Basic English. We expect you to hold the following **education**: Technical degree in Chemistry, Electrical, Mechanical, or Production Engineering. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or disability. Requisition ID: 21079