Principal Instrumentation Designer

Role Overview

Principal Instrumentation Designer at McDermott. This role directly impacts the effectiveness of the instrumentation design team and related teams through the exchange of ideas and information relating to instrumentation design. The Principal Instrumentation Designer may work autonomously within established instrumentation design procedures and practices, acts as a lead coordinating the work of others, and proposes improvements to processes and methods within the instrumentation design discipline.

Role Purpose

To prepare and develop high-quality arrangement and detail conceptual, FEED, and detail design drawings; develop clash-free 3D models; ensure design deliverables are completed and issued per project specifications and procedures; and when acting as Lead Designer, direct instrumentation design teams and lead projects while coordinating with other disciplines.

Key Responsibilities

Design Development and Deliverables

• Prepare and develop arrangement and detail conceptual, FEED, studies, and detail design drawings of high technical quality and professional consistent presentation ensuring clarity and ease of construction.
• Develop 3D models and ensure clash-free with other disciplines.
• Prepare, review, and approve instrumentation design deliverables including 3D model instrument scopes, layout drawings, instrument hook-up and installation details, wiring and loop diagrams, panel and console drawings, instrument drawing lists, logic diagrams, shutdown hierarchy drawings, schematics and block diagrams, and material schedules.
• Develop conceptual layouts based on experience and good offshore engineering practice and develop these through detail design.
• Ensure instrument item clashes identified in 3D model are addressed and resolved.
• Participate in 3D model reviews and ensure instrument review comments are closed.

Project Coordination and Execution

• Ensure design deliverables are completed and issued per project specifications, MDR, and project Level 2 and 3 procedures, and within agreed schedules and budgets.
• Set priorities, organize own work and time to meet objectives, and as a Lead Designer, forecast and plan resource requirements.
• Ensure compliance with the Project Execution Plan and the timely completion and archiving of drawings and documents.
• Become familiar with the Contract Scope of Work, specifications, schedule, and all inter-discipline requirements, including identifying concerns as early as practicable and taking appropriate initiatives to address issues.
• Review project schedule and fabrication schedule in relation to construction sequence, milestones, and design scope.
• Monitor progress and maintain the deliverables register on an ongoing basis.
• Attend project kickoff and review meetings, vendor and supplier meetings, engineering and design meetings, and offshore site surveys as required.

Scope and Change Management

• Identify changes to scope and promptly raise change notification in the Change Management system, including providing any necessary supporting documentation and estimates.
• Provide similar support for Variation Orders.
• Alert the project team of any deviation from the scope or a need for a change order.

Inter-Discipline Coordination

• Interface with all disciplines to develop clash-free designs.
• Interface with other disciplines to obtain input for discipline designs and drawings.
• Liaise with other discipline support groups to ensure clearly defined interfaces, deliverables, and schedules are met.
• Coordinate all activities within own discipline and discipline interfaces with other disciplines.
• Assist in providing necessary design inputs to other disciplines to enable them to proceed with their deliverables.
• Review drawings issued by other disciplines and incorporate the required data into discipline drawings.
• Participate in clash resolution meetings as required.

Documentation and Communication

• Document substantive communications that result in significant decisions or assignment of actions and forward copies to Discipline Lead Designer and Discipline Supervisor.
• Raise technical queries to obtain missing information, clarify work scope, and maintain preferred McDermott procedures, specifications, standards, practices, and operational requirements.
• Set up and maintain the discipline master design drawing and document files, including final archiving.
• Identify all items for which insufficient data is available to allow the drawing or model to be completed (HOLDS) and list these on the drawing and on the standard HOLDS list form.
• Notify the Discipline Lead Designer when there are updates to the Holds list.

Vendor and Drawing Reviews

• Liaise with the responsible Engineers for the timely expediting of Vendor Data to efficiently progress the project according to schedule requirements.
• Review vendor drawings and documents and incorporate required vendor data into discipline drawings and documents.

Design Verification and Quality Assurance

• Perform design verification through single discipline checks (SDC) and inter-discipline checks (IDC), providing comments to the Lead Designer.
• Review all project IDC design documentation for detail technical interfaces.
• Maintain single discipline and inter-discipline check drawings and filing, including final archiving.
• Participate in design reviews and audits.
• Generate IDC design documentation for the project.

Deliverable Management

• Prepare, issue, and update material and weight data take-offs.
• Assist Fabrication as required in the resolution of construction difficulties relating to design problems, clashes, and other issues.
• Assist the Lead Designer in supervising the preparation of key discipline drawings.

Progress Reporting and Planning

• Keep the Lead Designer apprised of all activities, progress, and concerns, including manpower and budgetary-related matters.
• Assist in providing inputs for actual, planning, and forecasting progress reports including associated productivity.
• Prepare forecasting schedules for delayed deliverables.
• Advise the Lead Designer of problem areas and manpower concerns.
• Report errors and suggest resolutions.
• Capture lessons learned and enter into MDR's Lessons Learned system.

Site Support

• Travel to fabrication yard or construction site to assist in mechanical completion, hook-up, and commissioning as required.

Lead Designer Responsibilities (When Acting as Lead Designer)

• Direct small or medium instrumentation design team.
• Lead projects engaging the participation of other disciplines.
• Lead the design team of the assigned work area and complete within the planned schedule and budget in accordance with standards, MDR, and project-specific procedures and to a high professional standard.
• Plan, organize, and direct all aspects of discipline execution on the assigned project including scope, deliverables, schedule, and all discipline manpower resources, and agree on allocations with the Engineering Manager.
• Ensure interfaces and deliverables are clearly identified.
• Maintain responsibility for progress and productivity, identifying any required corrective action.
• Act as project-based discipline point of contact in communications and meetings with the Project Team, Customer, vendor and supplier, and subcontractor counterparts, and relevant agencies such as certifying authorities, auditors, and third parties.
• Research Customer standards and procedures in order to prepare project-specific design procedures and standards for submission to the Customer for approval.
• Assist Discipline Lead Designer in preparing estimates for proposals and job scope changes, including execution statements, work schedules, and manhour requirements, identifying software requirements and any other project-specific requirements.
• Plan, organize, and assign tasks, responsibilities, and manhour budgets to the discipline team and verify tasks are completed within budgets.
• Plan discipline Level 4 detail deliverable schedule and register compliant with the overall execution plan.
• Supervise and guide assigned Designers for discipline design and design deliverables.
• Ensure Designers assigned to the project execute assigned tasks in a consistent manner.
• Prepare working forecasts identifying change management plans, corrective action, and real-time schedule.
• Provide discipline inputs for actual, planning, and forecasting progress reports including associated productivity.
• Monitor KPI measurement results and take corrective action as necessary to improve discipline performance, including performance at interfaces with others.
• Coordinate with other disciplines' Lead Designers to ensure timely receipt of necessary design inputs.
• Ensure discipline Designers have sufficient input information for the drawing or model being undertaken.
• Raise and approve technical queries to obtain missing information, clarify work scope, and maintain preferred McDermott procedures, specifications, standards, practices, and operational requirements.
• Review and approve discipline project schedules, Execution Plans, Deliverable Lists, Deliverables, Forecasts, Estimates, Progress and Productivity Reports, Procedures, MTOs, Single Discipline Checks (SDC) and Inter-Discipline Checks (IDC).
• Review comments from Customers and other agencies on documents and drawings produced by the team and resolve and give guidance on their update and incorporation.
• Lead the discipline team during project audits (internal, Customer, and third-party technical audits) and Design Reviews.
• Assist the Discipline Supervisor and Engineering Manager in the preparation of quarterly forecasts and manpower planning.
• Anticipate project engineering needs and plan accordingly.
• Prepare bids and the project's discipline design budget and execution plans, updating as required.
• Identify project staff needs based on knowledge of individual designer's skill sets and provide requests to the Discipline Supervisor and Engineering Manager.

Leadership, Mentoring, and Training

• Guide less experienced Designers on MDR and discipline procedures, standards, worksheets, design calculations,