Senior Mechanical Engineer
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Job Overview
The Senior Mechanical Engineer uses best practices and knowledge of internal or external issues to improve the mechanical discipline within McDermott.
They will act as a resource for colleagues with less experience and share their conceptual and practical expertise related to the mechanical discipline.
The Senior Mechanical Engineer solves complex problems and uses their discipline-specific knowledge to improve their products or services.
The Senior Mechanical Engineer impacts a range of customer, operational, project, or service activities with the mechanical team and other related teams and ensures that they are working within the appropriate guidelines and policies.
Key Tasks and Responsibilities
- Perform conceptual, FEED, Studies, and detailed analyses and design as per design basis, project specifications, design codes, and standards
- Apply knowledge and skills to a wide range of standard and nonstandard situations
- Prepare clear and accurate detailed design calculations and analyses including design reports and procedures
- Manage own time to meet agreed deadlines and budgets and develop plans for short-term work activities in own area
- Focus on completing work within budgets
- Delegate lead over the discipline project team when necessary
- Clearly communicate and explain complex issues and work to establish understanding
- Be fully familiar with the project scope of work, specifications, schedule, and all inter-discipline requirements; including identifying concerns as early as practicable and taking appropriate initiatives to address the issues
- Identify changes to scope and promptly raise change notifications, including providing any necessary supporting documentation and estimates
- Provide similar support for Variation Orders
- Interface with all disciplines to develop clash-free designs
- Interface with other departments to obtain input for Discipline designs and drawings
- Maintain close coordination with other engineering disciplines, Planning, Fabrication, Marine, and Project Management Team, as required
- Document substantive communications (communications that result in significant decisions or assignment of actions) and forward copies to Discipline Lead Engineer and Discipline Manager
- Assist in the preparation of estimates for bid proposals, including technical query reviews, execution statements, and workhour estimates
- Raise technical queries to obtain missing information, clarify work scope, and maintain client-preferred procedures, specifications, standards, practices, and operational requirements
- Prepare Discipline engineering design basis, philosophies, and technical specifications, as required
- Participate in finalizing deliverables lists and deliverables, ensuring compliance with specifications and functional integrity
- Attend project review meetings, vendor meetings, engineering meetings, and offshore site surveys, as required
- Provide technical direction and review of Designers producing products related to Mechanical Engineering
- Prepare and review design reports and procedures
- Assist in providing necessary design inputs to other disciplines to enable them to proceed with their deliverables
- Assist procurement personnel in procuring Discipline equipment, materials, and services; ensuring that work produced complies with Customer objectives and procedures
- Procurement assistance includes preparing and reviewing requisitions, evaluating technical quotations and preparing queries, compiling bid tabulations and recommendations, preparing purchase requisitions, and coordinating with Procurement to expedite vendor documents, as directed by Discipline Lead Engineer
- Assist in updating weight report based on receipt of vendor information
- Check engineering performed by others within the Discipline
- Review vendor and subcontractor submittals, checking for compliance with project specifications and providing comments as necessary
- Perform design verification through single-discipline check/ inter-discipline check (IDC)
- Provide technical support to all fabrication queries, including identifying defect/ rectification requirements
- Keep the Lead Engineer apprised of all activities and concerns, technical, budgetary, and manpower related
Functional: Supervising/Lead Engineer or Engineering Manager
Liaise with: All Engineering disciplines, Fabrication Group, Safety Dept, Document Control, Procurement Group,
Subcontractors and Vendors, and Customers
Essential Qualifications and Education
- Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering (Master’s Degree is preferred)
- 8-15 years of experience in oil and gas with major contractors or consultants predominately performing detailed design of offshore facilities
- Preferably Registered Professional or Chartered Engineer or member of professional engineering society
- Preferably Registered Professional Engineer or member of a professional engineering society
- Good English in writing/speaking (B2 Level minimum)
- Quality-oriented and schedule-conscious
- Serves as a technical reference and/or source of reliable information for the discipline
- Leadership skills and willingness to coordinate some discipline tasks
- Make recommendations to improve the work process
- Give support to construction when necessary, from the office or at the site
About Us
Our ingenuity fuels daily life. Together, we’ve forged some of the most trusted partnerships across the energy value chain to make what was once just an idea a reality: laying subsea infrastructure thousands of feet below sea level, installing platforms hundreds of miles from shore, using our expertise to design and build offshore wind infrastructure, and reshaping the onshore landscape to deliver the energy products the world needs safely and sustainably.
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