Job Overview:
The Senior Civil Engineer uses best practices and knowledge of internal or external issues to improve the Civil discipline within McDermott. They will act as a resource for colleagues with less experience and share their conceptual and practical expertise related to the Civil discipline. They solve complex problems and use discipline-specific knowledge to improve their products or services. The Senior Civil Engineer impacts a range of customer, operational, project, or service activities with the Civil 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
- Communicate and explain complex issues and work to establish understanding
- Train/mentor Engineers
- Assist MOPEX offices with projects
- Initiate interface with other disciplines to obtain input for discipline designs
- Provide engineering support as required
- Perform engineering checks of drafting
- Perform engineering checks prepared by others within the discipline
- Perform design verification through single discipline check and assist with inter-discipline checks (IDC)
- Prepare MTOs of foundations and structures
- Prepare specifications
- Prepare subcontract documents
- Review vendor data
- Prepare technical bid evaluations
- Check designs for operational requirements, constructability, and maintainability
- Tasks as Engineering Specialist
- Perform independent computer analyses of foundations and structures
- Prepare details and layouts of foundations and structures
- Prepare structural analyses and reports on calculations or perform specialist tasks (i.e., architectural designs, underground piping designs, complex foundations/structures, weight control reports, the center of gravity reports)
- Specialized in several fields (geotechnical, steel, concrete, dynamic calculations, FEM, fatigue calculations, earthquake, blast, architectural)
- Specialized in some design codes (EC, ACI/AISC/API, GOST)
- Prepare project engineering guides
- Coordinate and check the work of engineers and designers
- Tasks as Lead Engineer
- Work as Lead Engineer on small projects or act as area lead or deputy lead
- Full Responsibility for all engineering and design work on small-size projects
- Full control and manages work hours, materials, progress
- Work closely with the Design Coordinator, area leads, etc.
- Coordinate with project management
- Assist the Project Manager in:
- Prepare deliverable control
- Prepare schedule
- Prepare progress reports
- Prepare labor and capital expenditure estimates
- File engineering work
- Give relevant feedback to the department
Reports to:
Project: Lead Engineer/PEM
Functional: Supervising Department Manager
Liaise With: All Engineering disciplines, Construction site/Fabrication Group, Safety Dept, Document Control, Procurement
Group, Subcontractors and Vendors, and Customers
Supervises: Engineers and Designers
Essential Qualifications and Education:
- Bachelor’s Degree or Master’s Degree in Engineering
- 8-15 years 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
- 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 technical structural knowledge
- 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
- Reassignment to other McDermott offices
- Good understanding of the other engineering departments
Preferred Qualifications and Education:
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