Pipe Support Lead Designer - Malaysia

Role Purpose

As a Discipline Lead Designer, you are responsible for the delivery of your assigned project design scope (Full project or a specific area of the project) in accordance with SBM management system and Standards (Processes, Technical and Engineering Standards and Guidelines) and Client requirements. For that purpose, you coordinate a team of Designers to deliver fit for purpose, cost effective and constructible solutions for your discipline project design scope, that maximize the value for our clients, by ensuring project execution is on schedule, budget, and quality standards. You must manage uncertainty and provide guidance to the team to properly execute the design scope.

Role Contribution

In order that the project is properly planned and executed, YOU ARE TO:

1. Take ownership to define and develop Discipline design scope in alignment with Discipline Lead Engineer by understanding and evaluating the project requirements.
2. Identify dependencies, sequence of design activities (successors and predecessors), effort, activity weightage, information requirement and key milestones and obtain alignment with project stakeholders to achieve project schedule.
3. Define the relevant tools requirement for the design scope and collaborate with the Discipline Manager and Discipline Lead Engineer to ensure tools availability.
4. Have clear understanding of the execution strategy such as inter-office work sharing and scope subcontract to ensure all interfaces are considered in the plan.
5. Collaborate with the Discipline Manager and Discipline Lead Engineer to accurately forecast manhours, resource needs, and completion date for deliverables.
6. Set team expectations for quality standards and enforce safety requirements to meet project needs, corporate standards, and industry regulations.
7. Take ownership of any required administrative tasks related to SOW.

In order to effectively lead a design team YOU ARE TO:

1. Understand project requirements and appropriately assign tasks to design team members in accordance with their capabilities.
2. Ensure each team member understands his/her role and responsibilities to deliver the design within the agreed budget, schedule and quality standards.
3. Proactively track the design progress and take remedial actions as needed.
4. Ensure the design meets maturity as required for project design reviews and follow through on design review action items.
5. Provide coaching and guidance as needed to team members in concert with the DLE; seek assistance from Discipline Manager to provide relevant training and mentoring for team members when necessary.
6. Proactively provide feedback to team members in concert with the DLE, address any performance issues and partner with Discipline Manager to continuously improve individual and team performance.
7. Promote a positive work environment to keep a high level of team engagement.
8. Ensure previous lessons learned are incorporated into the project to minimize the impact of expected or unforeseen changes; capture new lessons learned and share with Discipline Lead Engineer and Discipline Manager for future projects.

In order to achieve effective interface management and ensure changes are managed appropriately, YOU ARE TO:

1. Ensure proper communication with internal/external clients to ensure all parties are promptly informed of project design developments.
2. Proactively track areas likely to change to reduce the “surprise” element, added costs and delays to project.
3. Highlight impact of changes and propose alternatives to project stakeholders.
4. Provide input to Discipline Lead Engineer to document all deviations from agreed scope and budget hours to accurately adjust man hour forecast and project completion date for related changes.
5. Understand and monitor all interfaces with Class Society and Clients to ensure requirements are properly addressed and relevant documents are reviewed timely.
6. Manage Subcontractors and ensure relevant documents are reviewed timely and thoroughly.
7. Collaborate with Discipline Lead Engineer and Package Engineers to manage the interfaces with Vendor and Yards to ensure relevant documents are available, reviewed timely and thoroughly.