Job Description

Company Overview:

People power our future. That is why advancing a dynamic, inclusive environment, where everyone grows and thrives is critically important to 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 offshore platforms hundreds of miles from shore, and using our expertise to design and build offshore wind infrastructure.


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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Job Overview:

The Senior Project Engineer uses best practices and knowledge of internal or external issues to improve the Project Engineering discipline within McDermott. They will act as a resource for colleagues with less experience and share their conceptual and practical expertise related to the Project Engineering discipline. The Senior Project Engineer solves complex problems and uses their discipline-specific knowledge to improve their products or services. The Senior Project Engineer impacts a range of customer, operational, project, or service activities with the Project Engineering team and other related teams and ensures that they are working within the appropriate guidelines and policies. Candidate shall have Offshore EPC project experience in O&G projects, preferably with ADNOC.





Key Tasks and Responsibilities:

• Coordinate and review inputs from the various Engineering disciplines, functional departments, and out-house contractors contributing to the execution of the Engineering portion of a project
• Coordinate and ensure the generation of deliverables, reports, and procedures required for the Engineering portion of the project
• Support management of the Engineering portion of the project as directed by the Project Engineering Manager
• Use discipline expertise and project experience to solve complex problems; take a broad perspective to identify innovative solutions
• Manage own time to meet objectives; forecast and plan resource requirements
• Assist the Project Engineering Manager in planning, organizing, coordinating, and controlling small projects or the Engineering portion of a larger project in accordance with established policies, procedures, systems, and requirements
• Act as a liaison between the Customer and Project Engineering Manager and Engineering Team, including third-party agencies and subcontractors
• Assist in the preparation and implementation of the Engineering Project Execution Plan (PEP)
• Assist in the preparation of the worksharing Interface Plan & Scope Split Matrix Ensure all scopes of work are addressed, handover points are understood and agreed upon, and there are no scope gaps or overlaps between the work sharing offices and any subcontractors
• Review the Project Plan along with the project planner and prepare subcontract scope packages for any work that is required to be subcontracted
• Attend Engineering Project Readiness reviews (as required)
• Coordinate and become familiar with all inputs and changes to the Engineering Project Plan, scope of work, drawings, and specifications Facilitate logging and evaluating impacts of all changes in the Desk Top Change Management System (DTCMS)
• Review any scope of work documents produced by the respective functional departments and identify changes impacting Engineering, update the Engineering Scope of Work documents as required/agreed, and assist in the preparation of change orders
• Coordinate information between Engineering and other functions (such as Fabrication, Marine, etc.) to ensure timely receipt and delivery of necessary design inputs
• Ensure that registers of all documents received by Engineering as well as sent are maintained and updated in accordance with Document Control inclusive of timely distribution to all concerned personnel, departments, other entities, and subcontractor(s) as necessary
• Document substantive communications (communications that result in significant decisions or assignment of actions), and forward copies to Engineering Project Manager
• Facilitate the development and monitor closeout of technical queries to obtain missing information, clarify work scope, and maintain preferred McDermott procedures, specifications, standards, practices, and operational requirement
• Coordinate and progress site queries related to subcontracted works
• Review project schedule and fabrication schedule in relation to construction sequence, milestones, and engineering scope, checking for alignment
• Attend Weekly Progress Meetings (internal as well as with Customer) and prepare the Minutes of Meetings
• Monitor worksharing team meetings, attending as necessary
• Coordinate and ensure that Engineering and associated Design work, including weight control information and necessary updates, are carried out by the respective discipline personnel in accordance with the specifications and schedule
• Ensure all procedures and calculations are submitted to the Customer for review and approval in accordance with the contract Monitor their approvals with the Customer
• Coordinate with the Project Quality Manager to ensure that the Engineering work is being performed per the Quality plans and that all necessary inspection and certification are available for the final documentation package
• Coordinate with the Project Procurement Manager/Coordinator to ensure that specifications, TBEs, vendor data expediting, and vendor data approvals required to be provided by Engineering are delivered per schedule, resolving technical queries as required
• Coordinate with senior production engineers and offshore operations engineers frequently to understand the progress of work activities on the project, identifying constraints related to Engineering deliverables and facilitating solutions
• Keep the Project Engineering Manager apprised of all activities and concerns, technical, budgetary, and manpower related
• Monitor work in progress and compile weekly/monthly reports on the status of each activity
• Gather and assemble inputs for actual, planning, and forecasting progress reports including associated productivity
• Monitor KPI measurement results, and alert Discipline Leads as necessary to take timely corrective action to avoid negative consequences to the project
• Participate in HAZAN, HAZID, HAZOP, and other safety I operability/ reliability studies and workshops, as necessary
• Participate in 3D model reviews, as necessary
• Coordinate and participate in Constructability reviews, as necessary
• Travel as necessary to attend Customer and project meetings and to facilitate the resolution of Engineering interface issues, including traveling to other Engineering offices, Fabrication Yard, and Offshore
• Attend Technical Quality Audit reviews, as necessary
• Facilitate project Discipline Lead Engineers' and Designers' reviews of previous projects' lessons learned, and ensure that lessons learned on the project are entered into MDR's Lessons Learned system progressively as they are identified

Reports to:


Project: Project Engineering Manager


Functional: Engineer Manager or Director


Liaise with: Project Team members plus all functional departments based on the specific functions allotted for a project,


subcontractors and vendors, and Customer; including Procurement, Fabrication, Marine, Quality, HSES, Completions, and


Welding Technology


Supervises: Assist the Project Engineering Manager in managing Lead Engineers and Lead Designers



Essential Qualifications and Education:

• Degree in an Engineering discipline
• 8-15 years of experience in oil and gas with a major contractor or consultant predominantly performing detail design of offshore facilities
• Preferably Registered Professional Engineer or member of a professional engineering society
• Good working knowledge of discipline design techniques, analysis methods, and general workflow
• General knowledge of the theory, content, and application of statutory codes and guidelines as applicable

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