Process Engineer jobs in United States

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. The Senior Process Engineer impacts a range of customer, operational, project, or service activities with the process engineering team and other related teams and ensures that they work within the appropriate guidelines and policies.

Essential Qualifications & 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 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 professional engineering society as applicable

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, 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, 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, clarify work scope, and 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 Process 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
• Review vendor and subcontractor submittals, checking for compliance with project specifications and providing comments as necessary
• Guide less experienced engineers on MDR and Discipline procedures, standards, worksheets, design calculations, software, requisitions, technical bid evaluations, technical queries, etc.
• 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 the following key deliverables, applicable as per the Project scope:
• Process simulations / Heat and material balances
• Process flow diagrams (PFD)
• Piping and instrument diagrams (P&ID)
• Process safeguarding diagrams
• Equipment and instrument process datasheets
• Process specifications
• Operating philosophy and startup and operating manuals
• Equipment list (process data)
• Line list (process data)
• Equipment and line sizing calculations
• Flare radiation and dispersion calculations
• Depressurization and flare network studies
• Process studies
• Provide process assistance to other disciplines by performing IDC / providing inputs as required for the following activities:
• Layout review
• Area classification drawings
• Safety studies
• Electrical load list
• Equipment datasheets
• Instrument datasheets
• ESD and F&G logic diagrams and control narratives
• Assist in close out of HAZOP action items
• Participate in internal, customer, and third-party technical audits on engineering deliverables and vendor documents

Reports to:
Project: Lead Engineer/PEM
Functional: Supervising Department Manager
Liaise With: All Engineering disciplines, Fabrication Group, Safety Department, Document Control, Procurement Group, Subcontractors, Vendors, and Customers
Supervises: Engineers