Senior Materials & Coatings Engineer

Job Overview:

The Senior Materials & Coatings Engineer uses best practices and knowledge of internal or external issues to improve the Materials & Coatings discipline within McDermott. They will act as a resource for colleagues with less experience and share their conceptual and practical expertise related to the Materials & Coatings discipline. The Senior Materials & Coatings Engineer solves complex problems and uses discipline-specific knowledge to improve their products or services. The Senior Materials & Coatings Engineer impacts a range of customer, operational, project, or service activities with the Materials & Coatings team and other related teams and ensures 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
• Apply knowledge and skills to a wide range of standard and nonstandard situations
• Prepare clear and accurate detailed material design 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 an understanding
• Develop and review material selection deliverables such as specifications, material selection reports, and diagrams Coordinate and contribute to risk-based inspection (RBI) study
• Perform unsupervised vendor document review Contribute to bid clarification meetings, bid reviews, and Pre Inspection Meetings as required
• Can work unsupervised on common tasks and more complex tasks
• Assist in proposals on metallurgy-related items
• Preparation of material selection reports and diagrams for refinery units, petrochemical units, offshore installations, etc.
• Develop and prepare metallurgical technical specifications for projects
• Supervise and review the work of metallurgy (associate) engineers;
• Contribute to the development of a risk-based inspection (RBI) study
• 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 man-hour estimates
• Raise technical queries to obtain missing information, clarify work scope, and maintain preferred McDermott procedures, specifications, standards, practices, and operational requirements
• Participate in finalizing deliverables lists and deliverables, ensuring compliance with specifications and functional integrity
• Attend project review meetings, vendor meetings, and engineering meetings as required
• 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 metallurgy 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
• Act as a resource for colleagues with less experience

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 and Education:

• Bachelor's Degree or Master's Degree in 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
• Preferably Registered Engineer in Training (EIT) or member of professional engineering society as applicable
• Eager to learn and open to continuous development
• Working knowledge of English, both oral and written
• HSE, TQM, and cost-conscious
• Show flexibility and ensure proper hand-over with regards to:
• The reassignment to other departments, construction sites, and 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 future current working methods and software applications
• Accredited engineering degree as may be required by specific region