Senior Naval Architect

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Job Overview :

The Senior Naval Architect uses best practices and knowledge of internal or external issues to improve the Naval Architecture (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 Naval Architecture (Eng) discipline. The Senior Naval Architect solves complex problems and uses discipline-specific knowledge to improve their products or services. The Senior Naval Architect impacts a range of customer, operational, project, or service activities with the Naval Architecture (Eng) team and other related teams and ensures they work within the appropriate guidelines and policies.

Job Description

Job Overview :

The Senior Naval Architect uses best practices and knowledge of internal or external issues to improve the Naval Architecture (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 Naval Architecture (Eng) discipline. The Senior Naval Architect solves complex problems and uses discipline-specific knowledge to improve their products or services. The Senior Naval Architect impacts a range of customer, operational, project, or service activities with the Naval Architecture (Eng) team and other related teams and ensures they work within the appropriate guidelines and policies.

Responsibilities

Key Tasks and Responsibilities :

• Perform conceptual, FEED, and detailed design as per design basis, project specifications, design codes, and standards
• Direct Engineering team when assigned as a Project Coordinator on 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
• Clearly communicate and explain complex issues and work to establish understanding
• Provide engineering support onboard installation vessels offshore, when required to do so
• 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 cooperation with other engineering disciplines, Planning, Fabrication, Marine, and Project Management Team, as required
• Document substantive communications (communications that result in significant decisions or assignment of actions) and forward copies to the Discipline Lead Engineer
• 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 Construction / Installation Support Engineering
• Prepare and review design reports
• Assist in providing necessary design inputs to other disciplines to enable them to proceed with their deliverables
• When assigned, assist procurement personnel in producing 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 and 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
• Check engineering performed by others within the Discipline
• 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
• 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
• Perform / review Naval Architecture Engineering designs, analysis, evaluations, calculations, and procedures related to all aspects of marine operations covering loadout, transportation, and installation

Reports to :

Functional : Manager (Construction Support Engg)

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

Procurement Group, Subcontractors, Project Management Team, Vendors, and Customers

Supervises : Naval Architects

Qualifications

Essential Qualifications and Education

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.

Seniority level

Seniority level

Mid-Senior level

Employment type

Employment type

Full-time

Job function

Job function

Engineering and Information Technology

Industries

Engineering Services and Oil and Gas

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