Senior Principal Structural Engineer

Role Overview

Senior Principal Structural Engineer at McDermott. This is a specialist-level position responsible for solving unique and complex structural engineering problems with broad business impact.

Role Purpose

The Senior Principal Structural Engineer identifies and solves the most complex structural engineering problems affecting business management and direction. The role requires conceptual and innovative thinking to develop creative solutions to structural challenges while influencing program and project direction and resource allocation within functional policies and industry guidelines.

Key Responsibilities

Design and Analysis

• Perform conceptual, FEED, and detailed analyses and design per design basis, project specifications, design codes, and standards.
• Prepare clear and accurate detailed design calculations and analyses including design reports and procedures.
• Prepare structural analyses and reports on calculations or perform specialist tasks including architectural designs, underground piping designs, complex structures, topsides, jackets, weight control reports, and center of gravity reports.
• Perform design verification through single discipline check and assist with inter-discipline checks (IDC).
• Check designs for operational requirements, constructability, and maintainability.

Technical Leadership and Mentoring

• Apply in-depth skills and broad knowledge of the business to address complex problems and nonstandard situations.
• Coordinate and check the work of senior and junior engineers.
• Conduct peer reviews on request.
• Provide technical assistance where required.
• Train and mentor other employees in the department.
• Train personnel under supervision.

Project and Discipline Execution (When Acting as Lead Engineer)

• Direct medium or large engineering teams as Lead Engineer.
• Lead the discipline engineering design of assigned work areas and complete within planned schedule and budget, by standards, MDR, and project-specific procedures to a high professional standard.
• Plan, organize, and direct all aspects of discipline execution on assigned projects including scope, deliverables, schedule, and all manpower resources; agree allocations with the Discipline Manager.
• Work as Lead Engineer on medium to large-size EPC projects.
• Maintain responsibility for progress and productivity, identifying required corrective action.
• Manage own time to meet objectives and forecast and plan resource requirements.
• Has full control and manages work hours, materials, and progress.

Stakeholder Communication and Representation

• Communicate and explain difficult concepts and persuade others to adopt a point of view.
• Act as project representative for discipline during meetings with the Project Team.
• Serve as customer discipline lead and relevant agencies such as certifying authorities, auditors, and third parties.
• Initiate interface with other disciplines to obtain input for discipline designs.
• Work in close liaison with the Design Coordinator.
• Liaise with all engineering disciplines, construction site/fabrication groups, safety department, project management team, document control, project planner, project cost controller, QC and certification group, procurement group, subcontractors and vendors, and customers.

Scope and Contract Management

• Ensure interfaces and deliverables are identified.
• Define scopes of work for engineering, construction, and fabrication yard.
• Manage (design) subcontracts.
• Identify and manage changes in scope of work.
• Prepare bid from sketching data using experience.
• Prepare subcontracts.
• Prepare technical bid evaluations.

Documentation and Specifications

• Prepare MTOs of structures.
• Prepare specifications.
• Review vendor data.
• Prepare project engineering guides.
• Responsible for filing engineering work.
• Prepare deliverable control.

Planning and Estimation

• Prepare schedule.
• Prepare progress reports.
• Prepare man-hour and capital expenditure estimates.

Quality and Compliance

• Perform engineering checks of drafting.
• Perform engineering checks prepared by others within the discipline.
• Assist in furthering the department.
• Help maintain Unifi.

Cross-Functional Support

• Provide engineering support as required.
• Assist and monitor MOPEX offices on projects.
• Has good understanding of other engineering departments.
• Has good understanding of construction/fabrication yard and client requirements.
• Has commercial insight.
• Supervise engineers and designers.
• Give relevant feedback to the department.

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor's Degree or Master's Degree in engineering.
• 20+ years of experience in oil and gas with a major contractor or consultants predominantly performing detail design.
• Seasoned knowledge of engineering standards and specifications.
• Preferably Registered Professional Engineer or member of professional engineering society as applicable.

Skills & Competencies

• Specialization in several fields: geotechnical, steel, concrete, dynamic calculations, FEM, fatigue calculations, earthquake, jackets, FPSOs, blast, hydrodynamics, architectural.
• Specialized in several design codes: EC, ACI, AISC, API, GOST.
• Good knowledge of engineering software.
• Able to work independently.
• Good working knowledge of English, both oral and written.
• HSE, TQM, and cost-conscious mindset.
• Good technical structural knowledge.
• Good organizer, motivator, and supervisor.
• Keen on improving the effectiveness of the work.
• Responsible for discipline within the engineering group.
• Show flexibility and ensure proper hand-over with regards to reassignment to other departments, construction sites, fabrication yards, and McDermott offices; replacement of colleagues during illness and holidays; provision of assistance to other colleagues with heavy workloads when possible or desirable; and managing and learning of current working methods and software applications.

Additional Information

• Reports to: Lead Engineer, Project Engineering Manager, Project Manager, or Supervising Department Manager.
• Supervises: Senior Engineers, Engineers, and Designers.