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Plant construction
Commissioning engineers
Commissioning sat on project contracts, paid in the agreed currency. When the project ended, termination followed local rules.
Project background
Commissioning engineers were needed for a dated plant build. Headquarters first planned permanent hires and a later redundancy.
Contractor management wrote term, scope, and exit into project contracts. Fees were paid in the agreed currency. When the project ended, so did the contracts — commissioning was not an open-ended job.
Profile
- Will take a project term, not a permanent seat.
- Scope is commissioning, not ongoing production.
- Whether they may serve others is written, and matches the work.
- After the project, “stay a while and see” is not a lawful continuation of command.
Search timeline
First gate
Contracts in 1 week
Second gate
Ended with the project
Local contracts went out inside a week of locking scope. When commissioning ended, so did the contracts. Nobody was quietly moved onto production headcount.
CVs presented
Presented
6
Landed
6
Six commissioning engineers, all on project contracts, all ended at close-out. These figures are people on contract.
What we took from it
At the end of the build there was no “temporary-permanent” bench still on site. Exit papers matched the project calendar.
Permanent contracts would have cost more to end and been harder to explain. Project terms start on page one of the contract.
For the next brief: start, end, and scope. Do not extend the end date verbally.