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McDermott Senior Instrumentation & Controls Eng in Dubai, United Arab Emirates
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 work experience in Offshore Oil & Gas EPC detail engineering project.
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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