We are currently exploring potential candidates for an upcoming role at McDermott. The Senior Instrumentation & Controls Eng will use best practices and knowledge to improve the Instrumentation & Controls discipline within McDermott, act as a resource for colleagues, and solve complex problems. The role will impact customer, operational, project, or service activities with the Instrumentation & Controls team and other related teams.
Requirements
- 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 non-standard 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
- 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
- Interface with all disciplines to develop clash-free designs
- Maintain close coordination with other engineering disciplines, Planning, Fabrication, and Project Management Teams, as required
- Document substantive communications (communications that result in significant decisions or assignment of actions) and forward copies to the Discipline Lead Engineer and Discipline Manager
- Assist in the preparation of estimates for bid proposals, including technical query reviews, execution statements and man-hour estimates
- Raise technical queries to obtain missing information, clarify work scope, and to maintain preferred McDermott 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 Instrumentation & Controls 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
- 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 workforce-related
- Assist in providing inputs for actual, planning, and forecasting progress reports including associated productivity
- Check final subcontractor and vendor data manuals to ensure that all requested data has been received and approved
- Participate in internal, customer, and third-party technical audits on engineering deliverables and vendor documents
- Assist Lead Engineer with responses to customers and other agencies (such as certifying authorities, auditors, third parties, etc) on their review and approval
- Capture lessons learned and enter into MDR's Lessons Learned system
- Act as а resource for colleagues with less experience
- Guide less experienced engineers on MDR and Discipline procedures, standards, worksheets, design calculations, software, requisitions, technical bid evaluations, technical queries, etc
- Be aware of costs related to own work and of the discipline
- Prepare/review automation system definition, including philosophy, specifications, safety drawings, and system architecture
- Prepare/review ESD logic (as applicable) / cause & effect diagrams and F&G logic (as applicable) / cause & effect diagrams
- Prepare/update/review specifications and data sheets for Instrumentation & Controls equipment
- Prepare / review I&C equipment spare parts lists
- Prepare/review inputs to P&ID development and markups based on receipt of vendor information, Review I&C equipment testing procedures
- Attend A&I equipment FATs, as required
- Assist in close out of HAZOP action items
- Works as Lead Engineer on small projects or acting as area lead or deputy lead
- Has full responsibility for all engineering work on small-size projects
- Has full control and manages work hours, materials, progress
- Works in close liaison with the area leads, etc
- Coordinates with project management
- Assists Project Manager in: Preparing deliverable control Preparing schedule Preparing progress reports Preparing man-hour and capital expenditure estimates
- Is responsible for filing of engineering work
- Gives relevant feedback to the department
- Reports To: Project: Lead Engineer Functional: Supervising Department Manager Liaise With: AII Engineering disciplines, Fabrication group, Safety Department, Document Control, Procurement Group, Subcontractors and Vendors, and Customers Supervises: Instrumentation and Controls Engineers
