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They will act as a resource for colleagues with less experience and share their conceptual and practical expertise related to the Telecommunications discipline. The Senior Telecom Engineer solves complex problems and uses their discipline-specific knowledge to improve their products or services. The Senior Telecom Engineer impacts a range of customer, operational, project, or service activities with the Telecommunications team and other related teams and ensures that they are working within the appropriate guidelines and policies.\n Key Tasks and Responsibilities:\nPerform conceptual, FEED, studies and detailed analyses and design as per design basis, project specifications, design codes, and standards related to Telecom systems\nApply knowledge and skills to a wide range of standard and non-standard situations\nPrepare clear and accurate detailed design calculations and analyses including design reports and procedures\nManage own time to meet agreed deadlines and budgets and develop plans for short-term work activities in own area\nClearly communicate and explain complex issues and work to establish understanding\nBe 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\nIdentify changes to scope and promptly raise change notifications, including providing any necessary supporting documentation and estimates, providing similar support for Variation Orders\nInterface with all disciplines to develop clash free designs\nInterface with other departments to obtain input for Discipline designs and drawings\nMaintain close coordination with other engineering disciplines, Planning, Fabrication, and Project Management Team, as required\nDocument substantive communications (communications that result in significant decisions or assignmentof actions) and forward copies to the Discipline Lead Engineer and Discipline Manager\n\nAssist in the preparation of estimates for bid proposals, including technical query reviews, execution statementsand manhour estimates\n\nRaise technical queries to obtain missing information, clarify work scope, and to maintain preferred McDermott procedures, specifications, standards, practices, and operational requirements\nPrepare Discipline engineering design basis, philosophies, and technical specifications, as required\nParticipate in finalizing deliverables lists and deliverables, ensuring compliance with specifications and functional integrity\nAttend project review meetings, vendor meetings, engineering meetings, and offshore site surveys, as required\nProvide technical direction and review of Designers producing products related to Telecom Engineering\nPrepare and review design reports and procedures\nAssist in providing necessary design inputs to other disciplines to enable them to proceed with their deliverables\nAssist procurement personnel in procuring Discipline equipment, materials, and services; ensuring that work produced complies with Customer objectives and procedures; procurement assistance includes preparingand reviewing requisitions, evaluating technical quotations and preparing queries, compiling bid tabulations\nand recommendations, preparing purchase requisitions, and coordinating with Procurement to expedite vendor documents, as directed by Discipline Lead Engineer\n\nAssist in updating weight report based on receipt of vendor information\nCheck engineering performed by others within the Discipline\nReview vendor and subcontractor submittals, checking for compliance with project specifications and providing comments as necessary\nPerform design verification through single-discipline check/inter-discipline check (IDC)\nProvide technical support to all fabrication queries, including identifying defects/rectification requirements\nKeep the Lead Engineer apprised of all activities and concerns, technical, budgetary and manpower related\nAssist in providing inputs for actual, planning, and forecasting progress reports including associated productivity\nCheck final subcontractor and vendor data manuals to ensure that all requested data has been receivedand approved\n\nParticipate in internal, Customer, and third-party technical audits on engineering deliverables and vendor documents\nAssist Lead Engineer with responses to Customer and other agencies (such as certifying authorities, auditors, third parties, etc.) on their review and approval\nCapture lessons learned and enter into MDR's Lessons Learned system\nAct as а resource for colleagues with less experience\nGuide less experienced engineers on MDR and Discipline procedures, standards, worksheets, design calculations, software, requisitions, technical bid evaluations, technical queries, etc.\nBe aware of costs related to own work and of the discipline\nPrepare/review Telecom systems definition, including philosophy, specifications, safety drawings, and system architecture\nPrepare/review FDS&GDS logic (as applicable)/cause & effect diagrams (in cooperation with Instrumentation Engineering)\nPrepare/update/review specifications and data sheets for Telecom equipment\nPrepare/review Telecom equipment spare parts lists\nPrepare/review inputs to P&ID (HSE Process Part especially) development and markups based on receiptof vendor information, Review Telecom equipment testing procedures\n\nAttend Telecom equipment FAT’s, as required\nAssist in close out of HAZOP action items if applicable\nGain deep knowledge of Telecom related systems (FDS, GDS, CCTV, TEL/LAN, Radio Systems (RS), Intercom Systems (IS), Public Address General Alarm Systems (PA-GA), Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) and/or Access Control Systems (ACS), etc.)\nReports to:\nProject: Lead Engineer\nFunctional: Supervising Engineer or Engineering Manager\nLiaise with: AII Engineering disciplines, Fabrication group, Safety Department, Document Control, Procurement Group,\nSubcontractors and Vendors, and Customers\nSupervises: Telecom Engineers\n Essential Qualifications and Education:\nBachelor’s Degree in Electrical, or Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering, Master’s Degree is preferred\n8-15 years of experience in oil and gas with a major contractor or consultant predominantly performing detail design\nStrong working knowledge of many design techniques and analysis methods, and detailed knowledge of the content and application of standards, codes, and guidelines as applicable\nPreferably Registered Professional Engineer or member of a professional engineering society\nKnowledge of Functional Safety (HW/SW design acc. 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