Senior Process Engineer Offshore EPC​/Detail Design Projects

Senior Process Engineer Offshore EPC/Detail Design Projects

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The Senior Process Engineer uses best practices and knowledge of internal or external issues to improve the process engineering discipline within McDermott. They act as a resource for less experienced colleagues, sharing conceptual and practical expertise related to the discipline. The Senior Process Engineer solves complex problems, applies discipline‑specific knowledge to improve products or services, and impacts a range of customer, operational, project, or service activities with the process engineering team and other related teams.

They ensure compliance with guidelines and policies.

• Perform conceptual, FEED, studies and detailed analyses and designs as per design basis, project specifications, design codes, and standards.
• Direct engineering team as a Lead Engineer on small projects.
• Apply knowledge and skills to a wide range of standard and nonstandard situations.
• Prepare clear and accurate detailed design calculations and analyses, including design reports and procedures.
• Manage own time to meet agreed deadlines and budgets and develop plans for short‑term work activities in own area.
• Clearly communicate and explain complex issues and work to establish understanding.
• Be fully familiar with the project scope, specifications, schedule, and all inter‑discipline requirements, identifying concerns early and taking appropriate action.
• Identify scope changes and promptly raise change notifications, including necessary 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 disciplines designs and drawings.
• Maintain close coordination with other engineering disciplines, Planning, and Project Management teams as required.
• Document substantive communications and forward copies to Discipline Lead Engineer and Discipline Manager.
• Assist in the preparation of estimates for bid proposals, including technical query reviews, execution statements, and work‑hour estimates.
• Raise technical queries to obtain missing information, clarify scope, and maintain preferred McDermott procedures, specifications, standards, practices, and operational requirements.
• Prepare discipline engineering design basis, philosophies, and technical specifications as required.
• Participate in finalizing deliverables lists and deliverables, ensuring compliance with specifications and functional integrity.
• Attend project review meetings, vendor meetings, engineering meetings, and offshore site surveys as required.
• Provide technical direction and review of designers producing products related to Process Engineering.
• Prepare and review design reports and procedures.
• Assist in providing necessary design inputs to other disciplines to enable them to proceed with their deliverables.
• Review vendor and subcontractor submittals, checking for compliance with project specifications and providing comments as necessary.
• Guide less experienced engineers on MDR and discipline procedures, standards, worksheets, design calculations, software, requisitions, technical bid evaluations, technical queries, etc.
• Check engineering performed by others within the discipline.
• Be aware of costs related to own work and the discipline.
• Act as a resource for colleagues with less experience.
• Responsible for preparing/checking the following key deliverables (applicable per project scope):

• Process simulations / Heat and material balances
• Process flow diagrams (PFD)
• Piping and instrument diagrams (P&)
• Process safeguarding diagrams
• Equipment and instrument process datasheets
• Process specifications
• Operating philosophy and startup and operating manuals
• Equipment list (process data)
• Line list (process data)
• Equipment and line sizing calculations
• Flare radiation and dispersion calculations
• Depressurization and flare network studies
• Process studies

• Provide process assistance to other disciplines by…