Senior Instrumentation Designer

Role Overview

Senior Instrumentation Designer at McDermott. This role completes a variety of Instrumentation Design assignments with limited supervision and serves as an informal resource for colleagues with less Instrumentation Design experience.

Role Purpose

Deliver high-quality instrumentation design solutions across conceptual, FEED, and detailed design phases. Create clash-free 3D models and technical drawings that meet project specifications, industry standards, and agreed schedules while supporting the broader engineering team and mentoring junior designers.

Key Responsibilities

Design Development

• 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 and review Instrument Design deliverables including 3D model Instrument scopes, layout drawings, instrument hook-up/installation details, wiring/loop diagrams, panel and console drawings, instrument drawing lists, logic diagrams, shutdown hierarchy drawings, schematics and block diagrams, and material schedules.
• Create detailed design drawings, as-built drawings, and material and weight data take-offs.

Project Coordination & Interface Management

• 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 the issues.
• 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.
• Assist in providing necessary design inputs to other disciplines to enable them to proceed with their deliverables.
• Participate in clash resolution meetings, as required.
• Attend project kickoff and review meetings, vendor/supplier meetings, engineering and design meetings, and offshore site surveys as required.
• Travel to the fabrication yard or construction site to assist in mechanical completion, hook-up, and/or commissioning, as required.

Quality & Compliance

• Ensure design deliverables are completed and issued per project specifications, MDR, and project Level 2 & 3 procedures, and within agreed schedules.
• Ensure compliance with the Project Execution Plan and the timely completion and archiving of drawings and documents.
• Participate in finalizing deliverables lists, deliverables, and philosophies to ensure compliance with specifications and functional integrity.
• Perform design verification through single discipline checks (SDC) and/or inter-discipline checks (IDC), providing comments to the Lead Designer.
• Review all project IDC design documentation for detailed technical interfaces.
• Maintain single discipline and inter-discipline check drawings and filing.
• Participate in design reviews and audits.

Documentation & Records Management

• Set up and maintain the Discipline Master design drawing and document files, including final archiving.
• Review drawings issued by other disciplines and incorporate the required data into Discipline drawings.
• Review vendor drawings and documents and incorporate required vendor data into Discipline drawings and documents.
• Document substantive communications (communications that result in significant decisions or assignment of actions), and forward copies to Discipline Lead Designer and Discipline Supervisor.
• Generate IDC design documentation for the project.
• 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 the standard HOLDS list form.
• Notify the Discipline Lead Designer when there are updates to the Holds list.
• Monitor progress and maintain the deliverables register on an ongoing basis.

Change & Scope Management

• Identify changes to scope and promptly raise change notifications in the Change Management system, including providing supporting documentation and estimates.
• Provide similar support for Variation Orders.
• Raise technical queries to obtain missing information, clarify work scope, and maintain preferred McDermott procedures, specifications, standards, practices, and operational requirements.

Reporting & Communication

• Keep the Lead Designer apprised of all activities, progress, and concerns, including manpower and budgetary-related.
• Assist in providing inputs for actual, planning, and forecasting progress reports, including associated productivity.
• Report errors and suggest a resolution for the same.
• Capture lessons learned and entered them into MDR's Lessons Learned system.

Estimation & Planning Support

• Assist Discipline Lead Designer in preparing estimates for proposals and job scope changes, including execution statements, work schedules, and manhour requirements.
• Research Customer standards and procedures to prepare project-specific design procedures and standards for submission to the Customer for approval.

Mentoring & Knowledge Transfer

• Guide less experienced Designers on MDR and Discipline procedures, standards, worksheets, design calculations, software, technical queries, etc.
• Guide trainee Designers.
• Assist in the maintenance of departmental technical guidelines and standards.

Continuous Improvement

• Apply knowledge and/or skills to complete a variety of day-to-day activities within own area.
• Continue developing skills to complete repetitive tasks efficiently.
• Prioritize and organize own work to meet agreed-upon deadlines.
• Further develop an understanding of MDR's business, including processes and procedures.
• Assist Fabrication as required in resolving construction difficulties relating to design problems, clashes, etc.

Qualifications & Experience

• High School diploma in Civil, Electrical, or Mechanical Design or Drafting in a related discipline or equivalent experience.
• Minimum 6 years with a major contractor or consultant, of which 2 or more years of experience in predominately oil and gas.
• Detailed knowledge of associated industry detailing standards.
• Detailed knowledge of AutoCAD and/or Auto Lisp Programming.

Skills & Competencies

• Detailed knowledge of 2D and/or 3D drafting systems (AutoCAD and/or MicroStation).
• Working experience in E3D and/or S3D.
• 3D Model creation, Menu, and/or Macro compilation skills.
• Knowledge of QA Systems.
• Good communication skills.

Additional Information

Reports to: Project Lead Designer; Functional Supervising Designer or Engineering Manager.

Liaise with: Engineers, other Designers, Lead Designers, and assigned designers in other disciplines.

Supervises: Assigned Designers and Trainee Designers.