Senior Process Engineer

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Job Description

Job Overview:

The Senior Process Engineer uses best practices and knowledge of internal or external issues to improve the process engineering discipline within McDermott. They will act as a resource for colleagues with less experience and share their conceptual and practical expertise related to the process engineering discipline. The Senior Process Engineer solves complex problems and uses discipline-specific knowledge to improve their products or services. This role is for a contractual position.

Responsibilities

Key Tasks and Responsibilities:

• Perform conceptual, FEED, studies, and detailed analyses and design as per design basis, project specifications, design codes, and standards.
• Direct Engineering team as a Lead Engineer on small projects.
• Apply knowledge and skills to a wide range of standard and nonstandard 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.
• Clearly 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.
• 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.
• Maintain close coordination with other engineering disciplines, Planning, and Project Management Teams, as required.
• Document substantive communications and forward copies to Discipline Lead Engineer and Discipline Manager.
• Assist in the preparation of estimates for bid proposals, including technical query reviews, execution statements, and work-hour estimates.
• Raise technical queries to obtain missing information and clarify work scope.
• Prepare Discipline engineering design basis, philosophies, and technical specifications as required.
• Participate in finalizing deliverables lists and 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 Process Engineering.
• Prepare and review design reports and procedures.
• Assist in providing necessary design inputs to other disciplines.
• Review vendor and subcontractor submittals for compliance with project specifications.
• Guide less experienced engineers on procedures, standards, and technical evaluations.
• Check engineering performed by others within the discipline.
• Be aware of costs related to own work and of the discipline.
• Act as a resource for colleagues with less experience.
• Responsible for preparing/checking key deliverables applicable as per the Project scope, including process simulations, process flow diagrams, piping and instrument diagrams, and more.
• Provide process assistance to other disciplines by performing IDC and providing inputs as required.
• Assist in close out of HAZOP action items.
• Participate in internal, customer, and third-party technical audits on engineering deliverables and vendor documents.

Qualifications

Essential Qualifications and Education:

• Bachelor's Degree or Master’s Degree in Engineering.
• 8-15 years of experience in oil and gas with a major contractor or consultants predominantly performing detail design.
• Strong working knowledge of design techniques and analysis methods.
• Preferably Registered Professional Engineer or member of a professional engineering society as applicable.