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Senior Field Coordinator

MEG Energy is a Canadian oil sands company focused on sustainable in situ development and production in the Southern Athabasca region of Alberta.

•36 years industry experience •15 years SAGD industry specific experience •15 years Project experience •15 years Operations experience •Experience in Sustaining, Expansion and Greenfield SAGD projects •Experience in SAGD design, Commissioning and Startup, Operations •Experience in SAGD Operations Management •Commissioning, Startup and Operation of Greenfield Fertilizer plant •Commissioning, Startup and Operation of Greenfield Petrochemical facility •Commissioning and Startup of Greenfield world scale gas plant •Commissioning and Startup of 3 SAGD plants •Operations Management Steam, Water and Cogen of 130 000 BPD SAGD plant •Leader of numerous facility optimization projects •Water Treatment, Steam Generation, Cogeneration •Overseas project experience •Client representative in engineering offices •Extensive risked based decision making experience •Budgeting experience •Outage and Turnaround leadership in world scale operations •Extensive Emergency Preparedness and Response leadership including 6 weeks of training at Texas A&M and Elko Nevada industrial fire schools. •Leader of process development to improve efficiencies including; project turnover, Pre Startup Safety Reviews, Permit to work, Lockout Tag-out, communication, hiring, process optimization and commissioning.