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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. 

Candidate shall have Offshore Oil & Gas EPC detail engineering project experience

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 vendor data manuals to ensure that all requested data has been received

• and approved

• Participate in internal, customer, and third-party technical audits on engineering deliverables and vendor documents

• Assist Lead Engineer with responses to customers and other agencies (such as certifying authorities, auditors, third parties, etc) on their review and approval

• Capture lessons learned and enter into MDR's Lessons Learned system

• Act as а resource for colleagues with less experience

• Guide less experienced engineers on MDR and Discipline procedures, standards, worksheets, design calculations, software, requisitions, technical bid evaluations, technical queries, etc

• Be aware of costs related to own work and of the discipline

• Prepare/review automation system definition, including philosophy, specifications, safety drawings, and system architecture

• Prepare/review ESD logic (as applicable) / cause & effect diagrams and F&G logic (as applicable) / cause & effect diagrams

• Prepare/update/review specifications and data sheets for Instrumentation & Controls equipment

• Prepare / review I&C equipment spare parts lists

• Prepare/review inputs to P&ID development and markups based on receipt of vendor information, Review I&C equipment testing procedures

• Attend A&I equipment FATs, as required

• Assist in close out of HAZOP action items

• Tasks as Lead Engineer

• Works as Lead Engineer on small projects or acting as area lead or deputy lead

• Has full responsibility for all engineering work on small-size projects

• Has full control and manages work hours, materials, progress

• Works in close liaison with the area leads, etc

• Coordinates with project management

• Assists Project Manager in:

• Preparing deliverable control

• Preparing schedule

• Preparing progress reports

• Preparing man-hour and capital expenditure estimates

• Is responsible for filing of engineering work

• Gives relevant feedback to the department

Reports To:

Project: Lead Engineer

Functional: Supervising Department Manager

Liaise With: AII Engineering disciplines, Fabrication group, Safety Department, Document Control, Procurement Group,

Subcontractors and Vendors, and Customers

Supervises: Instrumentation and Controls Engineers

Essential Qualifications and Education:

• Bachelor's Degree in Electrical or Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering (Master's Degree is Preferred)

• 8-15 years of experience in oil and gas with a major contractor or consultant predominantly performing detail design

• Strong working knowledge of many design techniques and analysis methods, and detailed knowledge of the content and application of standards, codes, and guidelines as applicable

• Preferably Registered Professional Engineer or member of a professional engineering society

• Seasoned knowledge of engineering standards and specifications

• Good knowledge of engineering software

• Able to work independently

• Good working knowledge of English, both oral and written

• HSE, TQM, and cost-conscious

• Good organizer, motivator, and supervisor

• Keen on improving the effectiveness of the work

• Show flexibility and ensure proper hand-over with regards to:

• The reassignment to other departments/construction sites/fabrication yards

• 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 current working methods and software applications

• The reassignment to other McDermott offices

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