Senior Mechanical Engineer (Static and packages)
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About the Role
McDermott seeks a Senior Mechanical Engineer to perform conceptual, FEED, and detailed design for offshore oil and gas facilities. The role involves managing own work, delegating to the team, and ensuring compliance with project specifications.
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Responsibilities
- Perform conceptual, FEED, Studies, 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 agreed deadlines and budgets and develop plans for short term work activities
- Delegate lead over the discipline project team when necessary
- Identify changes to scope and promptly raise change notifications
- Interface with all disciplines to develop clash free designs
- Assist in the preparation of estimates for bid proposals
- Prepare Discipline engineering design basis, philosophies, and technical specifications
- Provide technical direction and review of Designers producing products related to Mechanical Engineering
- Assist procurement personnel in procuring Discipline equipment, materials, and services
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering (Master’s preferred)
- 8 15 years of experience in oil and gas with major contractors or consultants performing detailed design of offshore facilities
- Preferably Registered Professional or Chartered Engineer or member of professional engineering society
- Good English in writing/speaking (B2 Level minimum)
- Quality oriented and schedule conscious
- Leadership skills and willingness to coordinate some discipline tasks
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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.
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
- 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
Additional Responsibilities
- Maintain close coordination with other engineering disciplines, Planning, Fabrication, Marine, and Project Management Team, as required
- Document substantive communications 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
- 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
- Assist in updating weight report based on receipt of vendor information
Further Responsibilities
- 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
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
- 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
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- 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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