Senior Manager Project Engineering

Role Overview

Senior Manager Project Engineering at McDermott, reporting to the Director of Engineering. The role provides leadership to managers and professional staff within the Project Engineering discipline and is accountable for the performance and results of multiple related teams.

Company Overview

McDermott is an energy infrastructure company with more than 100 years of history. The organization employs more than 30,000 professionals across 54 countries and works across the energy value chain, including subsea infrastructure, offshore platforms, offshore wind infrastructure, and onshore energy projects.

Role Purpose

The Senior Manager Project Engineering develops departmental plans aligned with business, production, and organizational priorities. The role requires multi-disciplinary expertise to achieve financial and operational objectives while managing multiple related teams, setting priorities, allocating resources, and resolving complex technical, operational, and organizational problems that directly impact business results.

Key Responsibilities

Project Management

• Manage the engineering scope of a project.
• Establish and implement project procedures to ensure deliverables meet quality and technical content requirements through contract documents.
• Manage technical execution to support business considerations established for the project.
• Ensure work is coordinated with other departments, offices, fabrication, and construction to meet project requirements.
• Monitor project performance and provide input and support as required.
• Participate in monthly Project Reviews.
• Execute Project Engineering Assessment (PEA) for Project Engineering.

Department Administration & Management

• Oversee administration and technical management of the Project Engineering Department.
• Establish a budget and salary plan for the department.
• Identify and recruit staff for Project Engineering positions.
• Assign staffing for Project Engineering positions on projects and proposals.
• Maintain staffing levels appropriate to the projected workload.
• Provide leadership and training for professional development of staff.
• Identify and correct performance gaps.
• Supervise the Project Engineering Team and Manager of Project Engineering.

Operations & Compliance

• Maintain Company processes and procedures related to Project Execution.
• Allocate resources to provide quality, on-time, and cost-effective deliverables for projects and proposals.
• Ensure responsibility for the integrity of work produced.
• Own responsibility for cost, schedule, quantity, and budget control.
• Ensure proactive and effective management of change.
• Own and lead the implementation, enforcement, and verification of compliance with all McDermott policies and procedures.
• Ensure employees understand their responsibility and authority to effectively implement the requirements of all McDermott policies and procedures.
• Ensure the timely completion of all mandatory training by themselves and their teams.

Culture & Continuous Improvement

• Instill and promote "Safety as a Value" culture.
• Support the Lessons Learned process and continuous improvement initiatives of the company.
• Support proposal development.

Qualifications & Experience

• 20+ years of proven experience in project engineering management.
• Management of offshore oil and gas projects at the EPC Detailed Engineering stage, including fixed platforms and pipelines.
• Extensive Middle East project experience (required).
• Adnoc project experience (preferred).
• Experience of multiple office engineering execution.
• Discipline engineer background.
• B.Eng or B.Sc in Engineering degree (minimum).
• Masters Degree or Chartered Engineer credential (preferred).

Skills & Competencies

• Excellent interpersonal, communication, and influencing skills.
• Multi-disciplinary expertise with ability to understand the industry.
• Capacity to identify and resolve complex technical, operational, and organizational problems.

Additional Information

• Reports to: Director of Engineering (Functional).
• Liaises with: Project Engineer, PEM, PM, Discipline Lead Engineers, Engineering Department Managers, Construction/Fabrication team, Project Controls, Finance, Proposals.
• Supervises: Project Engineering Team, Manager of Project Engineering.
• Reference: #LI-MW2