Senior Welding Engineer

Role Overview

Senior Welding Engineer at McDermott. This role applies best practices and discipline expertise to advance welding standards, mentor junior engineers, and deliver complex technical solutions across fabrication and marine operations.

Role Purpose

The Senior Welding Engineer improves the Welding discipline within McDermott by solving complex problems, sharing conceptual and practical expertise with less experienced colleagues, and ensuring all welding activities meet appropriate guidelines and policies. The role impacts customer, operational, project, and service activities across the Welding team and related teams.

Key Responsibilities

Project Execution & Planning

• Develop the Project Welding Execution Plan that defines full scope of Weld Procedures required, schedule of qualification, quantity of electrodes and materials required for qualification.
• Ensure proper priorities relevant to project schedules are established and review progress.
• Seek review and approval of all Project Weld Procedures through direct and indirect communications with Customer and Certifying Authority.
• Review project schedules, material control reports, and welding consumable estimates to determine changes to the welding execution plan.
• Identify special needs that may be required for execution.

Engineering & Development

• Provide deliverables from Welding engineering and running of development projects and tasks.
• Provide metallurgical consultative service to operating groups (Fabrication / Marine).
• Work with the Welding Engineering group and Welding department to execute R&D development projects and goals identified.
• Assist in the support and development of automatic and mechanized welding systems.
• Maintain contacts with technical groups to maintain updates on developments in welding technology.
• Begin developing understanding of ECA-based acceptance criteria for specific applications.

Materials & Consumables

• Coordinate technical selection of electrodes based on physical, chemical, and corrosion properties as well as considering weldability and economics.
• Conduct regular review of Welding Consumables requirements versus availability to ensure availability of the same.
• Coordinate with test houses regarding testing of welding qualification coupons.
• Review vendor documents related to Welding Engineering.

Mentoring & Knowledge Transfer

• Guide Welding Engineers on day-to-day matters.
• Mentor trainee welding engineers to develop better understanding of Codes, Standards, and Project requirements.
• Manage welding school facility for training and development of workforce to improve welding methodology and good workmanship practices.

Quality & Problem Resolution

• Assist in resolving metallurgical, welding, and quality-related problems by investigating the cause of failures and prescribing fit-for-purpose solutions.

Bid Support

• Review and summarize customer specifications.
• Identify bid qualifications and clarifications.
• Project welder and procedure qualification requirements.
• Identify welding consumables requirements.

Stakeholder Coordination

• Liaise with Operations Manager (Fabrication / Marine), Discipline Managers, PMT, Customers, Operations / Field Engineers, QC/NDT Engineers, Client representatives, Certifying Authorities, and Other Technical Agencies (e.g., TWI, DNVGL).

Qualifications & Experience

• MS in Welding.
• BS Degree (4-year degree) or IWE or EWE in Welding Engineering, Metallurgical Engineering, or Mechanical Engineering.
• 5+ years of direct experience in Welding Engineering, Metallurgy, or Materials in Fabrication or Construction Industry.
• Welding Inspection qualification preferred.
• TQM Education preferred.

Additional Information

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