Principal Structural Engineer
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About the Role
McDermott International seeks a Principal Structural Engineer to lead structural design for oil and gas projects. The role involves performing FEED and detailed analysis, managing engineering teams, and ensuring project delivery.
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Responsibilities
- Perform conceptual, FEED, and detailed analyses and design as per design basis, project specifications, design codes, and standards
- Prepare clear and accurate detailed design calculations and analyses including design reports and procedures
- Manage own time to meet objectives and (as Lead Engineer) forecast and plan resource requirements
- Direct medium or large Engineering team as a Lead Engineer
- Lead the Discipline engineering design of the assigned work area and complete it within planned schedule and budget
- Train/mentor other employees in the department
- Prepare structural analyses and reports on calculations or perform specialist tasks
Requirements
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in engineering
- 15 20 years of experience in oil and gas with a major contractor or consultants
- Registered Professional Engineer or member of professional engineering society preferred
- Fluent in English, both oral and written
- Detailed knowledge of design techniques, analysis methods, standards, codes, and guidelines
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Job Overview
- The Principal Structural Engineer is responsible for interpreting internal or external business issues and recommending best practices.
- They will be tasked with solving complex structural related problems and will work independently with minimal guidance.
- The Principal Structural Engineer may be responsible for leading functional teams or projects and is regarded as a specialist in the field of structural engineering.
Key Tasks and Responsibilities
- Perform conceptual, FEED, and detailed analyses and design as per design basis, project specifications, design codes, and standards
- Apply in depth skills and broad knowledge of the business to address complex problems and nonstandard situations
- Prepare clear and accurate detailed design calculations and analyses including design reports and procedures
- Manage own time to meet objectives and (as Lead Engineer) forecast and plan resource requirements
- Clearly communicate and explain difficult concepts and persuade others to adopt a point of view
- When acting as Lead Engineer: direct medium or large Engineering team; lead Discipline engineering design; plan, organize, and direct all aspects of Discipline execution; ensure interfaces and deliverables are clearly identified; maintain responsibility for progress and productivity; act as project
- Train/mentor other employees in the department
- Assist and monitor MOPEX offices on projects
- Prepare bid from sketching data, using experience
- Supervise engineers and designers
- Define scopes of work for engineering/construction fabrication yard
- Provide engineering support as required
Essential Qualifications and Education
- Bachelor's Degree or Master's Degree in engineering
- 15 20 years of experience in oil and gas with a major contractor or consultants predominantly performing detail design
- Preferably Registered Professional Engineer or member of professional engineering society as applicable
- Seasoned structural knowledge
- Very good organizer, motivator, and supervisor
- Able to solve problems without assistance
- Keen on improving the effectiveness of the work
- HSE, TQM and cost conscious
- Fluent in English, both oral and written
- Understanding and supporting company goals and work processes
- Show flexibility and ensure proper hand over with regards to reassignment to other departments/construction sites/fabrication yards, other McDermott offices, replacement of colleagues, provision of assistance to other colleagues, managing/learning of future current working methods and software appli
- Detailed knowledge of design techniques and analysis methods, and detailed knowledge of the theory, content, and application of standards, codes, and guidelines as applicable
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.
- For more than 100 years, we've been making the impossible possible. Today, we're driving the energy transition with more than 30,000 of the brightest minds across 54 countries.
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