Senior Manager Mechanical Engineering

Description

• Provide leadership to managers and professional staff within a department.
• Accountable for the performance and results of multiple disciplines within a department.
• Apply managerial expertise to achieve financial and operational objectives.
• Resolve a variety of complex problems that have implications within the area of responsibility.
• Develop operational plans to achieve business objectives.
• Influence customer and/or organizational leadership to achieve operational objectives.
• Manage the performance of Discipline employees through goal setting, ongoing assessment, and coaching.
• Contribute to functional strategy development.
• Propose scope splits between Engineering offices and/or subcontractors (as applicable) at the bid stage and the award.
• Negotiate with other engineering disciplines, Fabrication, Marine, and Project Management Teams to ensure the best schedules and execution plans within agreed budgets.
• Attend project kickoff and review meetings, vendor meetings, and engineering meetings, as required.
• Interface with peers and Global Engineering.
• Foster teamwork of Regional or Functional Managers.
• Provide and direct bid assistance.
• Ensure availability and allocate discipline manpower resources as required to provide agreed deliverables and meet agreed schedules and budgets.
• Maintain historical norms to establish budgets and forecasts.
• Prepare/review the department's budgets and forecasts.
• Manage financial and operational objectives.
• Ensure departmental plans are aligned with business, financial, and operational objectives.
• Meet group DOE forecasts, within schedule and budget.
• Review/approve departmental key documents and drawings such as:
  • Progress and productivity report.
  • Workhours/timesheet bookings.
  • Requisition s for software, computers, and other departmental expenses.
  • Expense reports.
  • Estimates for proposals, including cost, schedule, and manhour estimates and execution plans.
  • Forecasting reports.
  • Project-specific procedures and design reports.
• Conduct staff feedback meetings.
• Identify and resolve technical, operational, and organizational problems.
• Keep the Director, Area Manager, and Project Management Teams apprised of high-level activities and concerns, technical, budgetary, and manpower related.
• Plan and recommend department manpower, training/development and assist in recruiting resources.
• Coordinate the training and development of Discipline personnel.
• Evaluate performance and recommend changes in the classification and compensation of department personnel.
• Travel on a regular basis to the other office locations within Offshore Middle East and if required, also to the Chennai engineering center.

Reports to:

Functional:
Senior Director Engineering Liaise with:
Engineering Directors in regional office locations, Managers and Supervisors of other Engineering / Design Disciplines, Project Managers, Project Engineers, and Project Management Teams;
Offshore/Onshore Managers, Planning Managers, Proposals Department, Procurement Department, Safety Department, HR Department, QC and Certification Group, External Mc Dermott Offices, Client Representatives, Vendor & Subcontractor Representatives.

Supervises:
All Discipline Managers, Engineers, Designers, and support personnel within the department.

• Bachelor's Degree or Master's Degree in Mechanical Engineering.
• Twenty plus (20+) years of experience and proven leadership experience in Oil and Gas with major contractors or consultants.
• Five plus (5+) years of proven management experience of leading the full mechanical discipline (Rotating, Package and Static equipments plus HVAC scope) in a similar Oil and Gas industry contractor or consultants.
• Registered Professional Engineer or member of Professional Engineering Society as applicable.
• General multi-discipline knowledge of design techniques and analysis methods, and general knowledge of the theory, content, and application of statutory codes and guidelines as applicable offshore.
• Detailed knowledge of project execution and managerial skills.