Senior Construction Support Engineer

Job Description

Job Overview:

Perform conceptual, FEED, Studies, and detailed analyses and design as per design basis, project specifications, design codes and standards.

Responsibilities

Key Tasks and Responsibilities:

1. Direct Engineering team as a Project coordinator on small projects
2. Apply knowledge and skills to a wide range of standard and nonstandard situations
3. Prepare clear and accurate detailed design calculations and analyses including design reports and procedures
4. Manage own time to meet agreed deadlines and budgets and develop plans for short-term work activities in own area
5. Clearly communicate and explain complex issues and work to establish understanding
6. 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.
7. Identify changes to scope and promptly raise change notifications, including providing any necessary supporting documentation and estimates. Provide similar support for Variation Orders
8. Interface with all disciplines to develop clash free designs
9. Interface with other departments to obtain input for discipline designs and drawings
10. Maintain close co-operation with other engineering disciplines, Planning, Fabrication, Marine and Project Management Team, as required
11. Document substantive communications (communications that result in significant decisions or assignment of actions) and forward copies to Discipline Lead Engineer and Discipline Manager
12. Assist in preparation of estimates for bid proposals, including technical query reviews, execution statements and manhour estimates
13. Raise technical queries to obtain missing information, clarify work scope, and to maintain preferred Mcdermott procedures, specifications, standards, practices, and operational requirements
14. Prepare Discipline engineering design basis, philosophies, and technical specifications, as required
15. Participate in finalizing deliverables lists and deliverables, ensuring compliance with specifications and functional integrity
16. Attend project review meetings, vendor meetings, engineering meetings and offshore site surveys, as required
17. Provide technical direction and review of Designers producing products related to Construction/Installation Support Engineering
18. Prepare and review design reports and procedures
19. Assist in providing necessary design inputs to other disciplines to enable them in proceeding with their deliverables
20. When assigned, assist procurement personnel in producing 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
21. Check engineering performed by others within Discipline
22. Perform design verification through single -discipline check/inter-discipline check (IDC)
23. Provide technical support to all fabrications queries, including identifying defect/rectification requirements
24. Keep the Lead engineer apprised of all activities and concerns, technical, budgetary and manpower related
25. Assist in providing inputs for actual, planning and forecasting progress reports including associated productivity
26. Participate in internal, Customer and third-party technical audits on engineering deliverables and vendor documents
27. Assist Lead engineer with responses to Customer and other agencies(such as certifying authorities, auditors, third parties, etc.) on their review and approval.
28. Capture lessons learned and enter into MDR's Lessons Learned system
29. Act as a resource for colleagues with less experience
30. Guide less experienced engineers on MDR and Discipline procedures, standards, worksheets, design calculations, software, requisitions, technical bid evaluations, technical queries, etc.
31. Be aware of costs related to own work and of the discipline
32. In Fab CSE, perform/ review designs, analyses, evaluations, calculations and procedures such as:
1. Erection sequences for jackets, topsides, and other structures
2. Loadout procedures and guidance during the operations
3. Construction lift analyses and procedures for activities such as float over, stackings roll-ups, etc.
4. Weighing procedures
5. Design and detailing of miscellaneous fabrication yard items
6. Crane arrangements and rigging arrangements
7. Trailer arrangements/operations, including drawings and procedures
33. Assist Lead Engineer in coordinating critical operations pre-activity meetings and attend yard critical operations
34. Additional skills (preferred, not mandatory) - perform/review PipelineInstallation Engineering designs, analyses, evaluations, calculations and procedures for transportation and installation:
1. Submarine pipelines
2. Risers
3. Spools
4. PLETS and manifolds
5. Cables
35. Additional skills (preferred, not mandatory) - perform/review Structural Installation Engineering designs, analyses, evaluations, calculations and procedures for loadout, transportation and installation of offshore structures, including barge upgrades/modifications
36. Additional skills (preferred, not mandatory) - perform /review Naval Architecture Engineering designs, analysis, evaluations, calculations and procedures related to all aspects of marine operations covering loadout, transportation, and installation

Qualifications

Essential Qualifications and Education:

1. 8-15 yrs in oil and gas with major contractor or consultant predominantly performing construction and installation design
2. Bachelor Degree in Naval Architecture, Civil / Structural / Mechanical Engineering (Masters degree preferred)
3. Strong working knowledge of many design techniques and analysis methods, and detailed knowledge of the content and application of standards codes and guidelines as applicable for onshore and offshore construction

Preferred Qualifications and Education:

1. Preferably Registered Professional Engineer or member of professional engineering society

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