Job Description

Job Overview:

The Senior Pipeline Engineer uses best practices and knowledge of internal or external issues to improve the Pipeline (Eng) discipline within McDermott. They will act as a resource for colleagues with less experience and share their conceptual and practical expertise related to the Pipeline (Eng) discipline. The Senior Pipeline Engineer solves complex problems and uses discipline-specific knowledge to improve their products or services. The Senior Pipeline Engineer impacts a range of customers, operational, project, or service activities with the Pipeline (Eng) team and other related teams and ensures they work within the appropriate guidelines and policies.

Responsibilities

Key Tasks and Responsibilities:

Perform the engineering for onshore and offshore pipeline systems; this role requires thorough knowledge of design codes and shall be hands-on with the software used in the pipeline discipline
Perform conceptual, FEED, Studies, and detailed analyses and design as per design basis, project specifications, design codes, and standards; as such, they must have in-depth expertise in pipeline engineering as well as broad knowledge of the pipeline engineering discipline within the engineering function; they shall be able to 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; they shall have good time management capabilities to meet agreed deadlines and budgets and develop plans for short-term work activities in their 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
Assist in the preparation of estimates for bid proposals, including technical query reviews, execution statements, and manhour 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 Pipeline 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
Assist procurement personnel in procuring Discipline equipment, materials, and services; ensuring that work produced complies with Customer objectives and procedures; Procurement assistance includes preparing and reviewing requisitions, evaluating technical quotations, preparing queries, compiling bid tabulations and recommendations, preparing purchase requisitions, and coordinating with Procurement to expedite vendor documents, as directed by Discipline Lead Engineer
Assist in updating weight report based on receipt of vendor information
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 manpower 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 Customer and other agencies (such as certifying authorities, auditors, third parties, etc.) 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 the following for pipelines and their components:

Material specifications and datasheets
Fabrication specifications
Installation specifications
Pipeline design and installation analyses
Material takeoffs
Pipeline reports and installation manuals

Perform/review the following designs, analyses, and evaluations for pipelines and their components:

Wall thickness designs
On-bottom stability analyses
Pipeline cathodic protection designs
Free-span analyses
Pipeline expansion and rigid riser stress analyses using finite element analysis (FEA) tools
Route selection designs
Bottom roughness evaluations
Crossing support designs
Dropped object protection structure designs
Clamp designs
Subsea structure designs
Shore approach designs
Onshore pipeline designs
Pipeline local and global buckling mitigation designs
Pipeline seismic analyses
Installation analyses

Reports to:

Project: Project Engineer or Lead Engineer

Functional: Department Manager

Liaise with: All Engineering disciplines, Fabrication Group, Safety Dept, Document Control, Procurement Group,

Subcontractors and Vendors, and Customers

Supervises: Engineers

Qualifications

Essential Qualifications and Education:

8-15 years of experience in Oil and Gas with a major contractor or consultant predominantly performing detail design
Bachelor's Degree in Engineering (Master's degree is preferred)
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
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:

The reassignment to other departments/construction sites/fabrication yards
The replacement of colleagues during illness and holidays
The provision of assistance to other colleagues with heavy workloads (also other projects) when possible/desirable
The managing/learning of current working methods and software applications
The reassignment to other McDermott offices

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