Senior Instrumentation & Controls Eng

Job Overview

The Senior Instrumentation & Controls Eng uses best practices and knowledge of internal or external issues to improve the Instrumentation & Controls discipline within McDermott. They will act as a resource for colleagues with less experience and share their conceptual and practical expertise related to the Instrumentation & Controls discipline. They solve complex problems and use discipline-specific knowledge to improve their products or services.

The Senior Instrumentation & Controls Eng impacts a range of customer, operational, project, or service activities with the Instrumentation & Controls team and other related teams and ensures they work within the appropriate guidelines and policies.

The Senior Instrumentation & Controls Eng uses best practices and knowledge of internal or external issues to improve the Instrumentation & Controls discipline within McDermott. They will act as a resource for colleagues with less experience and share their conceptual and practical expertise related to the Instrumentation & Controls discipline. They solve complex problems and use discipline-specific knowledge to improve their products or services.

The Senior Instrumentation & Controls Eng impacts a range of customer, operational, project, or service activities with the Instrumentation & Controls team and other related teams and ensures they work within the appropriate guidelines and policies.

Key Tasks and Responsibilities:

• Perform conceptual, FEED, Studies, and detailed analyses and design as per design basis, project specifications, design codes, and standards
• Apply knowledge and skills to a wide range of standard and non-standard situations
• Prepare clear and accurate detailed design calculations and analyses, including design reports and procedures
• Manage own time to meet agreed deadlines and budgets, and develop plans for short-term work activities in own area
• Communicate and explain complex issues and work to establish understanding
• Be fully familiar with the project scope of work, specifications, schedule, and all inter-discipline requirements, including identifying concerns as early as practicable and taking appropriate initiatives to address the issues
• Identify changes to scope and promptly raise change notifications, including providing any necessary supporting documentation and estimates. Provide similar support for Variation Orders
• Interface with all disciplines to develop clash-free designs
• Interface with other departments to obtain input for Discipline designs and drawings
• Maintain close coordination with other engineering disciplines, Planning, Fabrication, and Project Management Teams, as required
• Document substantive communications (communications that result in significant decisions or assignment of actions) and forward copies to the Discipline Lead Engineer and Discipline Manager
• Assist in the preparation of estimates for bid proposals, including technical query reviews, execution statements and man-hour estimates
• Raise technical queries to obtain missing information, clarify work scope, and to maintain preferred 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 Instrumentation & Controls 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; ensuring that work produced complies with Customer objectives and procedures. Procurement assistance includes preparing and reviewing requisitions, evaluating technical quotations and preparing queries, compiling bid tabulations and recommendations, preparing purchase requisitions, and coordinating with Procurement to expedite vendor documents, as directed by Discipline Lead Engineer
• Assist in updating weight report based on receipt of vendor information
• Check engineering performed by others within the Discipline
• Review vendor and subcontractor submittals, checking for compliance with project specifications and providing comments as necessary
• Perform design verification through single-discipline check / inter-discipline check (IDC)
• Provide technical support to all fabrication queries, including identifying defect/rectification requirements
• Keep the Lead Engineer apprised of all activities and concerns, technical, budgetary, and workforce-related
• Assist in providing inputs for actual, planning, and forecasting progress reports including associated productivity
• Check final subcontractor and…