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

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

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