Senior Production Engineer

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Job Overview:
The Senior Production Engineer uses best practices and knowledge of internal or external issues to improve the production discipline within McDermott. They will act as a resource for colleagues with less experience and share their conceptual and practical expertise related to the production discipline. The Senior Production Engineer solves complex problems and uses their discipline-specific knowledge to improve their products or services.

The Senior Production Engineer impacts a range of customer, operational, project, or service activities with the production team and other related teams and ensures that they are working within the appropriate guidelines and policies.

• Supervise discipline production engineer including identification of production engineer resource needs for the project and communication of these regularly to the Division Production
• Understand the full contractual scope of work, contract type, and milestone schedule managing the progress and reporting on the project
• Review constructability and ensure the work execution plan is based on the most productive option
• Responsible for fabrication 4
  
  WLA including the prioritization of materials and drawings to suit and chairing the production 4
  
  WLA and forecast fabrication and engineering requirements to meet the project contract schedule
• Responsible for initiating and approving all revisions orders and change orders ensuring incorporation into the global lessons learned database
• Solve technical problems and initiate site queries to ensure work disruption is minimized and productivity is optimized
• Chair the weekly project production meeting, managing the project’s weekly fabrication progress and productivity and ensure is within budget
• Manage any scope of work changes and ensure AFC estimate is up to date and that revision and change orders are initiated
• Appraise fabrication management of any project issues that affect the forecasted progress, productivity, and schedule commitments
• Develop a work pack index and set priorities and deliverable dates for the discipline teams
• Direct the discipline groups with all material ordering priorities and schedule dates to suit the fabrication sequence
• Direct material expediting reports and advise procurement personnel of any concerns and mitigation plans as necessary
• Authorize technical queries/correspondence to be issued to the client
• Develop a project fabrication execution plan that satisfies the contract requirements most productively
• Interface with other key project personnel such as project cost engineer, marine operations engineer, quality manager
• Lead project constructability program effort for fabrication
• Lead the Discipline Production Engineering team, Drafting Squad Leaders, Material Controllers, etc. to meet project fabrication requirements
• Manage inter/intra–functional interfaces at the discipline level for the fabrication portion of the project with minimal guidance
• Responsible for optimal utilization and development of the discipline team assigned on the project
• Establish a productive working relationship with Project Superintendents & Supervisions to ensure meeting the Fabrication Targets
• Ensure necessary documentation and compliance with procedural requirements throughout the project phases
• Interface for discipline-level requirements with key project personnel from various functions like Engineering, SCM, Quality, Cost control, Marine Operations, hook-up up etc. to meet priorities and schedule dates for project fabrication requirements
• Attend expediting meetings to communicate material delivery priorities, review and communicate Marine deliverables requirements to meet fabrication plan/ sequence
• Manage discipline level project fabrication progress within schedule and productivity within targeted budget in coordination with project Operations Engineer
• Support project Operation Engineer to manage inter/intra–functional interfaces and project reporting requirements like AFC estimate review, subcon coordination, project status reporting, developing fabrication sequence,…