Commissioning Engineer Instrumentation & Process Control

Target start of assignment: 1 June 2026
Estimated end of assignment: 1 April 2027
Work location: The Porthos Compressor Station, Aziëweg, Maasvlakte, 3199 KC Rotterdam with occasional visits to the off-shore CO2 injection platform
Working hours: full time or off-shore shift rotation
Reporting to: Porthos Commissioning & Start-up manager for Pipelines & Platform

About the Porthos CCS project
Porthos is a project to collect and transport CO2 from industries in the Port of Rotterdam and store it in empty natural gas fields under the North Sea. Various companies will capture CO2 at their facilities and send this into the Porthos pipeline that runs through the Rotterdam port area. The CO2 is then compressed in a compressor station at the Maasvlakte, after which the CO2 is sent via an offshore pipeline to a platform in the North Sea, some 20 km off the coast. From this platform, the CO2 is injected into an empty natural gas field.
The offshore system consists of a high pressure 16” subsea pipeline and an offshore platform with 4 injection wells to inject high pressure CO2 into a depleted natural gas reservoir. The Porthos project is currently under construction with an expected start-up end 2026.

Position Summary:
We are looking for an experienced commissioning engineer for Instrumentation, Process Control and safeguarding of the onshore pipeline systems and the offshore facilities, including subsea pipeline, injection platform and 4 CO2 injection wells. The scope includes completion, testing and tuning Distributed Control Systems (DCS), Safeguarding protective systems and field instrumentation.
You will play a key role in the Site Acceptance Testing of the Instrumentation & Process Control scope from the contractors Stork/Bilfinger, Denys and Taqa. This work will mostly be done at the control room of the Compressor Station.
A special challenge in this project is the integration of the data infrastructure of the Porthos project, which includes data and process control from the onshore pipeline system, compressor station, offshore platforms and subsea wells.
This is a great position for instrumentation & DCS or Automation engineers with commissioning experience, or the ambition to develop themselves into this field.

Key Responsibilities:
• Put safety first. Ensure that the contractor and your team adhere to the projects Health, Safety, and Environment policies and rules, such that all activities meet industry regulations and project safety standards.
• Supervise the pre-commissioning, and commissioning of the instrumentation, process control and safeguarding scope of contractors Stork/Bilfinger, Denys and Taqa/Siemens. This includes point-to-point testing, loop testing, full functional testing of safeguarding and process control functions and process control tuning.
• Review and approve all hand-over documentation of all instrumentation and control systems as submitted by contractor, including Mechanical Complete certificates, Inspection Test Records, and Site Acceptance Tests (SAT).
• Monitor progress in completion and commissioning by using the Completion Management systems MileMate and Checcboard.
• Communicate and interact effectively with colleagues, contractors and vendors.

Required qualifications and experience
• Completed a bachelor’s degree in instrumentation, process control or process engineering.
• At least 5 years of project-based experience with testing and commissioning of instrumentation, process control and process safeguarding systems
• Qualified, trained and willing to travel and work offshore, meeting the NOGEPA requirements including BOSIET training.
• Experience with completions management systems such as Checcboard or equivalent.
• Willingness to work full-time at locations such as the Maasvlakte project site, occasionally at the offshore platform and flexible to work occasional extra time, if required
• Proven ability to work in multi-disciplinary teams and with subcontractors in project environments.
• Professional communication skills in English, and preferably in Dutch

Are you interested?
We are looking forward to your application via the Hiring Desk of Port of Rotterdam
Please register via: Hiring desk Port of Rotterdam.
For any questions please refer to Daphne Maclean via hr@porthosco2.nl

You can apply for the vacancy until 8 April