Job Description

Job Overview:

The Director Project Engineering role requires comprehensive Project Engineering (Eng), Management, and business expertise. The Director Project Engineering leads through subordinate managers of managers and executes functional business plans and contributes to the development of functional strategy. They direct the resolution of highly complex or unusual business problems that have implications beyond their Function. The Director Project Engineering applies broad industry and commercial awareness to drive financial and operational performance and influence customer relationships.

Responsibilities

Key Tasks and Responsibilities:

Instill and promote a Safety as a Value culture
Administrative and technical management of the Project Engineering Department

Establish a budget and salary plan for the department
Identify and recruit staff for Project Engineering positions
Maintain staffing levels appropriate to the projected workload
Provide leadership and training for the professional development of staff
Identify and correct performance gaps
Maintain Company processes and procedures related to Project Execution

Allocate resources to provide quality, on time and cost-effective deliverables for projects and proposals
Responsible for the integrity of the work produced
Responsible for cost, schedule, quantity, and budget control
Ensure work is being coordinated with the other departments, offices, fabrication, and construction to meet project requirements
Ensure proactive and effective management of change
Monitor project performance and provide input and support as required
Participate in monthly Project Reviews
Execute Project Engineering Assessment (PEA) for Project Engineering
Support proposal development
Support the Lessons Learned process and continuous improvement initiatives of the company 
Own and lead the implementation, enforcement, and verification of compliance with all McDermott policies and procedures
Ensure employees understand their responsibility and authority to effectively implement the requirements of all McDermott policies and procedures
Ensure the timely completion of all mandatory training by themselves and their teams

Qualifications

Essential Qualifications and Education:

Bachelor's degree from an accredited university in an engineering discipline
Minimum 15 years of Project Engineering and/or Engineering Management experience
Demonstrates a broad technical knowledge of detailed design engineering codes and standards
Familiar with detailed engineering and design work procedures and processes
Able to read and understand contractual documentation
Able to effectively communicate with and lead engineers and non-engineers
Licensed Professional Engineer
Membership in related Professional Organization(s)
Field assignment experience
Experience in International Projects
Experience with multi-office (MOPEX) execution
Experience in execution as part of a Joint Venture or Consortium Group
Experience developing proposals and contractual documentation
Experience acting in a PMT role for projects
Experience in revamping (Brownfield) and grassroots (Greenfield) projects

About Us

Our ingenuity fuels daily life. Together, we've forged some of the most trusted partnerships across the energy value chain to make what was once just an idea a reality: laying subsea infrastructure thousands of feet below sea level, installing platforms hundreds of miles from shore, using our expertise to design and build offshore wind infrastructure, and reshaping the onshore landscape to deliver the energy products the world needs safely and sustainably.

For more than 100 years, we've been making the impossible possible. Today, we're driving the energy transition with more than 30,000 of the brightest minds across 54 countries.