Principal Structural Engineer - McDermott
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21-11-2024
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Job Overview:
The Principal Structural Engineer is responsible for interpreting internal or external business issues and recommending best practices. They will be tasked with solving complex structuralrelated problems and will work independently with minimal guidance. The Principal Structural Engineer may be responsible for leading functional teams or projects and is regarded as a specialist in the field of structural engineering. As such they must have indepth expertise in structural engineering as well as broad knowledge of the structural discipline within the engineering function.
Our ingenuity fuels daily life. Together weve 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 platforms hundreds of miles from shore using our expertise to design and build offshore wind infrastructure and reshaping the onshore landscape to deliver the energy products the world needs safely and sustainably.
For more than 100 years weve been making the impossible possible. Today were driving the energy transition with more than 30000 of the brightest minds across 54 countries.
For more than 100 years weve been making the impossible possible. Today were driving the energy transition with more than 30000 of the brightest minds across 54 countries.
Key Tasks and Responsibilities:
- Perform conceptual FEED and detailed analyses and design as per design basis project specifications design codes and standards
- Apply indepth skills and broad knowledge of the business to address complex problems and nonstandard situations
- Prepare clear and accurate detailed design calculations and analyses including design reports and procedures
- Manage own time to meet objectives and (as Lead Engineer) forecast and plan resource requirements
- Clearly communicate and explain difficult concepts and persuade others to adopt a point of view
- When acting as Lead Engineer in addition:
- Direct medium or large Engineering team as a Lead Engineer
- Lead the Discipline engineering design of the assigned work area and complete it within the planned schedule and budget in accordance with standards MDR and projectspecific procedures and to a high professional standard
- Plan organize and direct all aspects of Discipline execution on the assigned project including scope deliverables schedule and all manpower resources agree allocations with the Discipline Manager
- Ensure interfaces and deliverables are clearly identified
- Maintain responsibility for progress and productivity identifying any required corrective action
- Act as project representative for the Discipline during meetings with Project Team
- Customer discipline lead and relevant agencies such as certifying authorities auditors third parties etc.
- Train/mentor other employees in the department
- Assist and monitor MOPEX offices on projects
- Has a good understanding of the other engineering departments
- Initiate interface with other disciplines to obtain input for discipline designs
- Has a good understanding of construction/fabrication yard and client requirements
- Has commercial insight
- Helps to maintain unifi
- Prepare bid from sketching data using experience
- Supervise engineers and designers
- Define scopes of work for engineering/construction fabrication yard
- Provide engineering support as required
- Perform engineering checks of drafting
- Perform engineering checks prepared by others within the discipline
- Perform design verification through single discipline check and assist with interdiscipline checks (IDC)
- Prepare MTOs of structures
- Prepare specifications
- Prepare subcontract
- Review of vendor data
- Prepare technical bid evaluations
- Assist in furthering the department
- Tasks as Engineering Specialist:
- Coordinate and check the work of senior and junior engineers
- Conduct peer reviews on request
- Provide technical assistance where required
- Prepare structural analyses and reports on calculations or perform specialist tasks (i.e. architectural designs underground piping designs complex structures topsides jackets weight control reports the center of gravity reports)
- Is specialized in several fields (geotechnical steel concrete dynamic calculations FEM fatigue calculations earthquake jackets FPSOs blast hydrodynamics architectural )
- Is specialized in several design codes (EC ACI/AISC/API GOST )
- Check designs for operational requirements constructability and maintainability
- Prepare project engineering guides
- Tasks as Lead Engineer:
- Work as Lead Engineer on medium to largesize EPC projects
- Responsible for all engineering and design work on any project
- Has full control and manages work hours materials progress
- Work in close liaison with the Design Coordinator
- Set up all engineering computer systems
- Assist Project Manager in:
- Preparing deliverable control
- Preparing schedule
- Preparing progress reports
- Preparing manhour and capital expenditure estimates
- Coordinate with project management
- Train personnel under their supervision
- Is responsible for discipline within the engineering group
- Manage (design) subcontracts
- Identify and manage changes in the scope of work
- Is responsible for filing of engineering work
- Give relevant feedback to the department
Reports to:
Project: Lead Engineer Project Engineering Manager or Project Manager
Functional: Supervising Department Manager
Liaise with: All Engineering disciplines Construction site/Fabrication Group Safety Dept Project Management Team
Document Control Project Planner Project Cost Controller QC and Certification Group Procurement Group Subcontractors
and Vendors and Customers
Supervises: Senior Engineers Engineers and Designers
Essential Qualifications and Education:
- Bachelors Degree or Masters Degree in engineering
- 1015 years in oil and gas with a major contractor or consultants predominantly performing detail design
- Preferably Registered Professional Engineer or member of professional engineering society as applicable
- Seasoned structural knowledge
- Very good organizer motivator and supervisor
- Able to solve problems without assistance
- Keen on improving the effectiveness of the work
- HSE TQM and costconscious
- Fluent in English both oral and written
- Understanding and supporting company goals and work processes
- Show flexibility and ensure proper handover with regards to:
- The reassignment to other departments/construction sites/fabrication yards
- The reassignment to other McDermott offices
- The replacement of colleagues during illness and holidays
- The provision of assistance to other colleagues with heavy workloads (also other projects) when possible/desirable
- The managing/learning of future current working methods and software applications
- Detailed knowledge of design techniques and analysis methods and detailed knowledge of the theory content and application of standards codes and guidelines as applicable Knowledgeable in project coordination and execution skills
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