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Project Organization
Engineering Disciplines
Typical Organization Chart
Project Organization
The organization of a project depends
entirely upon its complexity. ZEI will form a project task force or will assign
individuals to fit the specific needs of the client and the project. The larger,
more complex projects would be organized as a project task force headed by a project
manager. The manager is assisted by the project engineer and job engineers.
Supplementing these key people are the technicians, designers, draftspeople and other
technical support as required.
The project manager is responsible for
the contractual and financial aspects of the total project. The project engineer is
the main client contact with the clients' project manager and is responsible for the
technical aspects of the project as well as for maintaining project schedule and budget.
Assisting the project engineer is a job
engineer from each applicable discipline, as warranted. The job engineers are
directly responsible for the technical aspects of work within their respective
disciplines.
Engineering Disciplines
Each discipline will have a job engineer
assigned to the specific project. The job engineer's duties include the development
of a scope of work, the preparation and maintenance of a schedule as governed by the
master project schedule, the preparation and evaluation of purchase specifications for
major equipment, the preparation and evaluation of construction bid documents, checking
and coordination of vendor and manufacturers' drawings, assisting in the preparation of
studies, reports and estimates as required, coordinating work with other disciplines, and
supervising and checking all drawings and bills of material required to provide a complete
construction package. The following is a more detailed description of each
discipline's activities and responsibilities:
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Mechanical
Engineering -- The mechanical engineering section is responsible for the
major on-stream processing equipment and all of its auxiliary piping systems. These
responsibilities range from the initial conceptual layouts to the preparation of final
construction drawings, bills of material, system analysis including such items as
conformance to applicable codes, compatibility of fluid and piping material, required
piping specifications for codes and design pressures, stress analysis and other system
calculations as required. |
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Civil/Structural
Engineering -- The civil/structural group is responsible for all of the site
development work including topographical information, water supplies, sewage, drainage,
roadways, railroad spurs and final grading. Additional items include the analysis of
soil and subsoil conditions to establish foundation design requirements, design of
economic building structures, design of large foundations to support equipment which
induces both static and dynamic loading, sizing and location of reinforcing steel and
other miscellaneous foundations and structural steel supports. |
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Electrical
Engineering -- The primary responsibility of this discipline is to assure a
continuous and reliable source of electrical power for the specific installation.
Electric power generally is brought in from local utility lines; however, adequate
provisions for an emergency supply are also installed. The emergency generator
normally consists of an oil or gas fired primer over with provision for automatic,
instantaneous start-up and switch over in the event of a power failure. Other work
areas include the motor control center, switchgear, station grounding system, cathodic
protection, conduit layouts, lighting, power and control wiring, and conduit and circuit
lists. This discipline also provides substation design engineering. |
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Instrumentation
and Controls Engineering -- The degree of sophistication for a particular
control system is determined by a review with the client of his functional requirements,
monetary restrictions, existing control facilities and other pertinent factors.
Systems thus developed incorporate the combined use of pneumatic, electrical and
electronic controls which range from local manual to fully automatic unattended remote
operation with a complete data gathering system. In addition, all the various closed
and open loop control systems involved in a project are the responsibility of this
discipline. The design will incorporate human factor considerations. |
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Typical Organization Chart
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