Senior Pipeline Engineer

McDermott International, Ltd; Dubai; On-site; AED 300,000 - 350,000; Full time

Job summary

McDermott International, Ltd is seeking a Senior Pipeline Engineer in Dubai with 8-15 years of experience in Oil and Gas. The role involves performing engineering for onshore and offshore pipeline systems and preparing detailed design calculations. A Bachelor’s degree in Engineering is essential, with a Master’s degree preferred. Candidates must possess strong design knowledge, good communication skills, and the ability to work independently. The position offers an opportunity to contribute to significant projects in the industry.

Qualifications

• 8-15 years of experience in Oil and Gas with a major contractor or consultant predominantly performing detail design.
• Strong working knowledge of design techniques and analysis methods.
• Good working knowledge of English, both oral and written.

Responsibilities

• Perform engineering for onshore and offshore pipeline systems.
• Prepare detailed design calculations and reports.
• Assist procurement personnel in procuring discipline equipment.

Skills

Detail design expertise

Engineering standards knowledge

Communication skills

Analysis methods

HSE and TQM awareness

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering

Master’s Degree in Engineering

Tools

Engineering software

Job description

Overview

The Senior Pipeline Engineer applies best practices and knowledge of internal or external issues to improve the Pipeline (Eng) discipline within McDermott. They act as a resource for colleagues with less experience and share conceptual and practical expertise related to the Pipeline (Eng) discipline. The Senior Pipeline Engineer solves complex problems and uses discipline-specific knowledge to improve products or services, impacting a range of customers, operational, project, or service activities with the Pipeline (Eng) team and other related teams, while ensuring work remains within applicable guidelines and policies.

Responsibilities

• Perform the engineering for onshore and offshore pipeline systems; requires thorough knowledge of design codes and hands-on use of software in the pipeline discipline.
• Perform conceptual, FEED, studies, and detailed analyses and design as per design basis, project specifications, design codes, and standards; demonstrate in-depth expertise in pipeline engineering and broad knowledge of the discipline within the engineering function.
• Prepare clear and accurate detailed design calculations, analyses, design reports, and procedures; manage time to meet deadlines and budgets and develop plans for short-term work activities.
• Clearly communicate and explain complex issues to establish understanding.
• Be familiar with the project scope of work, specifications, schedule, and inter-discipline requirements; identify concerns early and take appropriate initiatives to address them.
• Identify changes to scope and promptly raise change notifications, including providing supporting documentation and estimates; support Variation Orders as needed.
• Assist in preparing estimates for bid proposals, including technical query reviews, execution statements, and manhour estimates.
• Raise technical queries to obtain missing information, clarify work scope, and maintain 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 Pipeline 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; ensure work complies with customer objectives and procedures; provide procurement-related support including requisitions, technical quotations, queries, bid tabulations, and coordinating with Procurement to expedite vendor documents as directed by the Discipline Lead Engineer.
• Assist in updating weight reports based on vendor information.
• Review vendor and subcontractor submittals for compliance with project specifications and provide comments as necessary.
• Perform design verification through single-discipline checks and inter-discipline checks (IDC).
• Provide technical support to fabrication queries, including identifying defect/rectification requirements.
• Keep the Lead Engineer apprised of activities and concerns (technical, budgetary, and manpower).
• Provide inputs for actual, planning, and forecasting progress reports including productivity metrics.
• Check final subcontractor and vendor data manuals to ensure data has been received and approved.
• Participate in internal, customer, and third-party technical audits on engineering deliverables and vendor documents.
• Assist the Lead Engineer with responses to customers and other agencies (e.g., certifying authorities, auditors) during review and approval processes.
• Capture lessons learned and enter into MDR\'s Lessons Learned system.
• Act as a resource for colleagues with less experience and guide less experienced engineers on MDR and discipline procedures, standards, worksheets, design calculations, software, requisitions, technical bid evaluations, and technical queries.
• Be aware of costs related to own work and to the discipline.
• Prepare/ review the following for pipelines and their components: material specifications and datasheets, fabrication specifications, installation specifications, pipeline design and installation analyses, material takeoffs, pipeline reports and installation manuals.
• Perform/review the following designs, analyses, and evaluations for pipelines and their components: wall thickness designs, on-bottom stability analyses, pipeline cathodic protection designs, free-span analyses, pipeline expansion and rigid riser stress analyses using finite element analysis (FEA) tools, route selection designs, bottom roughness evaluations, crossing support designs, dropped object protection structures, clamp designs, subsea structures, shore approach designs, onshore pipeline designs, pipeline local and global buckling mitigation designs, pipeline seismic analyses, and installation analyses.

Responsibilities – Collaboration and Liaison

• Reports to: Project Engineer or Lead Engineer; Functional: Department Manager; Liaise with All Engineering disciplines, Fabrication Group, Safety Dept, Document Control, Procurement Group, Subcontractors and Vendors, and Customers; Supervises: Engineers.

Qualifications

Essential Qualifications and Education:

• 8-15 years of experience in Oil and Gas with a major contractor or consultant predominantly performing detail design
• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering (Master’s degree preferred)
• Strong working knowledge of design techniques and analysis methods, and detailed knowledge of standards, codes, and guidelines as applicable
• Preferably Registered Professional Engineer or member of a professional engineering society as applicable
• Seasoned knowledge of engineering standards and specifications
• Good knowledge of engineering software
• Able to work independently
• Good working knowledge of English, both oral and written
• HSE, TQM and cost-conscious
• Good organizer, motivator, and supervisor
• Keen on improving the effectiveness of the work
• Flexible and able to hand over to other departments/construction sites/fabrication yards; support reassignment to other McDermott offices when needed