Turnkey Marine Electrical Project SOP
A turnkey marine electrical project SOP for full-scope work: Scanel owns requirements, planning, engineering, procurement, installation, testing and commissioning through documentation, customer acceptance and closeout.
How it works
Replace the lanes with your actual project roles
This chart uses Customer, Project Manager, Engineering, Procurement, Field Electrical and QA / Commissioning. If your projects split procurement approval from procurement execution, or split QA sign-off from the commissioning engineer's own test, give that role its own lane rather than folding it into one column.
Put your own acceptance criteria on the confirmation and approval gates
"Scope, budget and schedule confirmed?" and "Customer approves engineering design and equipment list?" need a stated definition of "confirmed" and "approved", a signed scope document, an approved BOM revision, not just a verbal go-ahead. Write the actual sign-off mechanism into the row's comment field so the person running the gate isn't relying on memory of what counts.
Name who has the authority to reject non-conforming equipment
"Incoming equipment matches specification?" is the one gate in this chart where letting a marginal item through is expensive later, once it's fitted, a wrong-rated item is a rework job, not a return. Attach a named role, not just a title, so there's no ambiguity about who can send equipment back to the supplier instead of installing it under schedule pressure.
Set People and Workload on every row before you rely on the BI panel
The workload panel can only total hours for rows that carry them. Fill in People and Workload for each step as you adapt the chart, using realistic effort hours rather than elapsed time, so a project running several phases in parallel actually shows up as a busy stretch for the right people instead of looking evenly spread.
Decide what counts as an outstanding acceptance finding
"Customer accepts completed system?" is only useful if the project manager and the customer agree in advance on what routes to "Findings outstanding" versus what's a minor note handled after closeout. List examples directly in "Present deliverables to customer for acceptance" so the distinction isn't made differently project to project.
Frequently asked questions
What makes a project "turnkey" rather than a scoped installation job?
On this chart the customer states requirements once, at "Customer requirements received", and Scanel owns everything downstream: engineering, procurement, installation, testing and commissioning, as phases of one project. If the customer has already scoped a defined piece of electrical work and just needs it installed, the Marine Electrical Installation SOP is the right document instead.
What happens if incoming equipment doesn't match the specification?
The "Incoming equipment matches specification?" decision routes a mismatch to "Return non-conforming equipment and reorder" before it ever reaches the installation crew. Catching a wrong voltage rating, IP rating or cable gauge against the purchase order at this gate is deliberately earlier and cheaper than catching it once the item is already fitted.
Who approves the engineering design before procurement starts spending?
That's the "Customer approves engineering design and equipment list?" decision, and it's a project milestone confirming the design and bill of materials, not the detailed design-review cycle itself. A customer who wants to iterate on the design in more depth before committing to a turnkey build is better served starting from the standalone Electrical Engineering & Design Change SOP.
How does the commissioning gate on this chart relate to Scanel's dedicated commissioning SOP?
"System passes commissioning tests?" is a project-level pass or fail on the commissioning phase this chart runs as part of the turnkey scope. It is not a substitute for the hard energization-approval gate inside the Electrical System Commissioning SOP, which still governs whether the system is safe to energize regardless of which chart brought it to that point.
What happens if the customer doesn't accept the completed system?
The "Customer accepts completed system?" decision routes "Findings outstanding" back through "Present deliverables to customer for acceptance" rather than into "Hold project closeout meeting, transfer O&M documentation and warranty terms" on an assumption the customer will probably sign off. The project only closes out once acceptance is actually recorded.