Senior Principal Mechanical Engineer (Rotating Equipment Design) McDermott Middle East - Qatar Branch

Profile Description:

The Senior Principal Mechanical Engineer (Rotating Equipment Design) is recognized as a specialist in the field of Mechanical (Eng) at McDermott. They can anticipate internal and external business challenges and regulatory issues and recommend process, product, or service improvements.

Job Overview:

The Senior Principal Mechanical Engineer is tasked with solving unique and complex problems that broadly impact the business. They must proactively identify and solve the most complex problems that impact the Management and direction of the business. The Senior Principal Mechanical Engineer is considered a specialist in the field of Mechanical (Eng), and they offer a broad base of knowledge about the Engineering Function. The Senior Principal Mechanical Engineer impacts the direction and resource allocation of programs and projects in their discipline and works within general functional.

Job Responsibility:

• Perform conceptual, FEED, and detailed analyses and design as per design basis, project specifications, design codes, and standards.

• Develop creative and innovative solutions that are reliable and cost-effective for problems and challenges when they arise.

• Apply expertise to the most complex problems.

• Manage own time to meet objectives and (as Lead Engineer) forecast and plan resource requirements.

• Develop and manage plans to achieve business objectives.

• Clearly communicate and explain highly complex ideas and anticipate potential objections, influencing outcomes.

• Become fully familiar with the project 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 Interpret contractual requirements as they relate to engineering execution.

• Identify changes to scope and promptly raise change notifications, including providing any necessary supporting documentation and estimates.

• Provide similar support for Variation Orders.

• Interface with all disciplines to develop clash-free designs.

• Interface with other departments to obtain input for Discipline designs and drawings.

• Maintain close coordination with other engineering disciplines, Planning, and Project Management Team as required.

• Document substantive communications (communications that result in significant decisions or assignment of actions) and forward copies to Discipline Lead Engineer and Discipline Manager.

• Prepare estimates for bid proposals, including technical query reviews, execution statements, and manhour estimates, identifying software requirements and any other project-specific requirements.

• Raise technical queries to obtain missing information, clarify work scope, and maintain preferred McDermott procedures, specifications, standards, practices, and operational requirements.

• Prepare, review, and (as Lead Engineer) approve Discipline engineering design basis, philosophies, and technical specifications.

• Participate in finalizing deliverables lists and deliverables, ensuring compliance with specifications and functional integrity.

• Review project schedule and fabrication schedule in relation to construction sequence, milestones, and engineering scope.

• Attend project kickoff and review meetings, vendor meetings, engineering meetings, and offshore site surveys, as required.

• Provide technical direction and review of Designers producing products related to Mechanical Engineering.

• Prepare, review, and (as Lead Engineer) approve design reports and procedures.

• Assist in providing necessary design inputs to other disciplines to enable them to proceed with their deliverables.