Senior Instrumentation & Controls Eng

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.

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; 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 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 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; Assist procurement personnel in procuring Discipline equipment, materials, and services; 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 on their review and approval; Capture lessons learned and enter into MDR's Lessons Learned system; Act as a 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 / cause & effect diagrams and F&G logic / cause & effect diagrams; Prepare/update/review specifications and data sheets for Instrumentation & Controls equipment; Prepare/update/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; Work 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; Coordinates with project management; Assists Project Manager in preparing deliverable control, schedule, progress reports, man-hour and capital expenditure estimates; Is responsible for filing of engineering work; Gives relevant feedback to the department

Requirements

Bachelor's Degree in Electrical or Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering; 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; 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 reassignment to other departments/construction sites/fabrication yards, replacement of colleagues during illness and holidays, provision of assistance to other colleagues with heavy workloads when possible/desirable, managing/learning of current working methods and software applications, and reassignment to other McDermott offices

Nice to have

Master's Degree; Registered Professional Engineer; member of a professional engineering society