Principal Pipeline Engineer

We are seeking a highly experienced and skilled Principal Pipeline Engineer to join our team at McDermott International, Ltd. As a key member of our engineering team, you will be responsible for interpreting internal and external business challenges in the pipeline engineering discipline.

• Interpret internal and external business challenges in the pipeline engineering discipline, requiring specialized depth and breadth of expertise in the area of pipeline engineering.
• Interpret internal or external business issues and recommend best practices to ensure optimal pipeline engineering solutions.
• Solve complex pipeline-related problems and work independently with minimal guidance, demonstrating expertise in pipeline engineering and broad knowledge of the pipeline engineering discipline within the engineering function.
• May be responsible for leading functional teams or projects and is regarded as a specialist in the field of pipeline engineering, requiring in-depth expertise in pipeline engineering as well as broad knowledge of the pipeline engineering discipline within the engineering function.
• Become 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.
• Interpret contractual requirements as they relate to engineering execution, ensuring compliance with project specifications and company policies.
• Identify changes to scope and promptly raise change notifications, including providing any necessary supporting documentation and estimates, to ensure timely project delivery.
• Interface with all disciplines to develop clash-free designs, ensuring seamless project execution.
• Interface with other departments to obtain input for Discipline designs and drawings, promoting effective communication and collaboration.
• Maintain close coordination with other engineering disciplines, Planning, Fabrication, Marine, and Project Management Team, as required, to ensure project success.
• Document substantive communications (communications that result in significant decisions or assignment of actions) and forward copies to Discipline Lead Engineer and Discipline Manager, ensuring transparency and accountability.
• Prepare estimates for bid proposals, including technical query reviews, execution statements, and workhour estimates, identifying software requirements and any other project-specific needs.
• Raise technical queries to obtain missing information, clarify work scope, and maintain preferred procedures, specifications, standards, practices, and operational requirements, ensuring project deliverables meet company standards.
• Prepare, review, and (as Lead Engineer) approve Discipline engineering design basis, philosophies, and technical specifications, ensuring compliance with project specifications and company policies.
• Participate in finalizing deliverables lists and deliverables, ensuring compliance with specifications and functional integrity, and review project schedule and fabrication schedule about construction sequence, milestones, and engineering scope.
• Attend project kickoff and review meetings, vendor meetings, engineering meetings, and offshore site surveys, as required, to ensure project success.
• Provide technical direction and review of Designer's production products related to Pipeline Engineering, ensuring compliance with project specifications and company policies.
• Prepare, review, and (as Lead Engineer) approve design reports and procedures, ensuring compliance with project specifications and company policies.
• Assist in providing necessary design inputs to other disciplines to enable them to proceed with their deliverables, promoting effective communication and collaboration.
• Assist procurement personnel in procuring Discipline equipment, materials, and services, ensuring that work produced complies with Customer objectives and procedures.
• Assist in updating weight reports based on receipt of vendor information, ensuring accurate project documentation.
• Review and (as Lead Engineer) approve vendor and subcontractor submittals, checking for compliance with project specifications and providing comments as necessary, to ensure project deliverables meet company standards.
• Review and (as Lead Engineer) approve design verification through single-discipline check / inter-discipline check (IDC), ensuring compliance with project specifications and company policies.
• Provide technical support to fabrication queries, including identifying defect I rectification requirements, to ensure project success.
• Keep the Discipline Manager and Project Management Team apprised of all activities and concerns, technical, budgetary, and manpower related, to ensure effective project management.
• Assist in providing inputs for actual, planning, and forecasting progress reports including associated productivity, to ensure accurate project tracking.
• Check final subcontractor and vendor data manuals to ensure that all requested data has been received and approved, to ensure project deliverables meet company standards.
• Present issues and problems to Customers promptly and assist the Lead Engineer in negotiating resolution by project and company requirements, to ensure customer satisfaction.
• Perform (as required) Technical Quality Audit reviews by MOR Global Procedures, ensuring compliance with company policies and procedures.
• Assist Lead Engineer with responses to Customer and other agencies (such as certifying authorities, auditors, third parties, etc.) on their review and approval, to ensure effective communication and collaboration.
• Capture lessons learned and enter them into a database system, to ensure knowledge sharing and improvement.
• Guide less experienced engineers on MOR and Discipline procedures, standards, worksheets, design calculations, software, requisitions, technical bid evaluations, technical queries, etc., to ensure effective knowledge transfer.
• Supervise and guide assigned engineers and coordinate with project Lead Designers for Discipline engineering and design deliverables, to ensure project success.
• Responsible for the engineering integrity of the assigned work area, ensuring compliance with project specifications and company policies.
• Monitor costs of own work processes, to ensure efficient project execution.
• Assist in the maintenance of departmental technical guidelines and standard calculation notes, to ensure knowledge sharing and improvement.
• Participate in the development and maintenance of Global Procedures, Software, and Standards, to ensure company-wide consistency and compliance.
• May participate in standards development committees or task groups such as API, to ensure industry-wide best practices.
• Develop communication and presentation skills (e.g., write technical papers, participate in conferences and/or seminars, present design solutions, and/or present topics at lunch and learns, etc.), to ensure effective communication and collaboration.
• Prepare working forecasts identifying change management plans, corrective action, and real schedule, to ensure accurate project tracking.
• Provide Discipline inputs for actual, planning, and forecasting progress reports including associated productivity, to ensure accurate project tracking.
• Alert the project team of any deviation from the scope or a need to change the order, to ensure effective project management.
• Monitor KPI measurement results and take corrective action as necessary to improve Discipline performance, including performance at interfaces with others, to ensure project success.
• Coordinate with other Discipline Lead Engineers and Designers to ensure timely receipt of necessary design inputs, to ensure project deliverables meet company standards.
• Review and approve requisitions, technical quotation evaluations and queries, compiled bid tabulations and recommendations, and purchase requisitions, and coordinate with Procurement to expedite vendor documents as required, to ensure project deliverables meet company standards.
• Lead the Discipline team during project audits (internal, Customer, and third-party technical audits) and Design Reviews, to ensure project success.
• Review comments from Customers & other agencies on documents and drawings produced by the team and resolve and give guidance on their updates and incorporation, to ensure customer satisfaction.
• Assist the Discipline manager in the preparation of quarterly forecasts and manpower planning, to ensure accurate project tracking.
• Anticipate project engineering needs and plan accordingly, to ensure project success.
• Coordinate with vendor for discipline-managed / procured items, to ensure project deliverables meet company standards.
• Assist the Discipline manager and Project Engineering Manager or Project Manager in the Performance Evaluation of project team members, to ensure effective project management.