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McDermott Senior Process Engineer in Dubai, United Arab Emirates
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.
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 (communications that result in significant decisions or assignment of actions) 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
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
All Engineering disciplines, Fabrication Group, Safety Department, Document Control, Procurement Group, Subcontractors, Vendors, and Customers
Preferably Registered Professional Engineer or member of professional engineering society as applicable
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