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Senior Principal Welding Engineer

Job in Dubai, Dubai, UAE/Dubai
Listing for: McDermott
Full Time position
Listed on 2026-02-10
Job specializations:
  • Engineering
    Mechanical Engineer, Process Engineer
Salary/Wage Range or Industry Benchmark: 200000 - 300000 AED Yearly AED 200000.00 300000.00 YEAR
Job Description & How to Apply Below

Job Overview

Senior Principal Engineer - Welding R&D requires hands on experience on R&D and innovation in welding and joining technologies, welding equipment and tooling development, metallurgy, material behavior, and defect prevention, & testing & validation.

Responsibilities Key Tasks and Responsibilities
  • Lead R&D and innovation in welding and joining technologies, from concept to industrial deployment.
  • Develop, optimize, procedures, and parameters for new materials and applications.
  • Drive welding equipment and tooling development, including specification, design input, prototyping, testing, and integration of advanced systems (automation, robotics, power supplies, sensors).
  • Provide expert knowledge in weld metallurgy, material behavior, and defect prevention.
  • Define and supervise testing, validation, and qualification activities in compliance with relevant standards.
  • Support industrialization and technology transfer to manufacturing, including troubleshooting complex issues.
  • Lead or contribute to technical projects, mentor junior engineers, and collaborate with external partners.
  • Ensure quality, safety, and regulatory compliance, while contributing to cost, performance, and sustainability objectives.
Qualifications Essential Qualifications and Education
  • Engineering Degree
  • Minimum 15 Years of Experience in R&D and innovation in welding and joining technologies
  • Ability to lead the team
  • Willing to relocate to Jebel Ali
  • Organized and Detailed Oriented
  • Proficient is activities such as: R&D, automatic GMAW (Gas Metal Arc Welding), automatic GTAW (Gast Tungsten Arc Welding), pipeline welding, welding automatization, Offshore pipelay installation (S-lay & J-lay), welding pipeline equipment
About Us

Our ingenuity fuels daily life. Together, we've 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, we've been making the impossible possible. Today, we're driving the energy transition with more than 30,000 of the brightest minds across 54 countries.

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Position Requirements
10+ Years work experience
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