Job Overview:

The Senior Process Engineer uses best practices and knowledge of internal or external issues to improve the process engineering discipline within McDermott. They will act as a resource for colleagues with less experience and share their conceptual and practical expertise related to the Process Engineering Discipline. The Senior Process Engineer solves complex problems and uses discipline-specific knowledge to improve their products or services. The Senior Process Engineer impacts a range of customer, operational, project, or service activities with the Process Engineering Team and other related teams and ensures that they work within the appropriate guidelines and policies.

• Perform conceptual, FEED, Studies, and detailed analyses and design 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 of work, specifications, schedule, and all inter-discipline requirements, including identifying concerns as early as practicable and taking appropriate initiatives to address the issues.
• 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 Teams, as required.
• Document substantive communications (communications that result in significant decisions or assignment of actions) and forward copies to the 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 work 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 of the discipline.
• Act as a resource for colleagues with less experience.

Responsible for preparing/checking the following key deliverables, applicable as per the Project scope:

• Process simulations / Heat and material balances.
• Process flow diagrams (PFD).
• Piping and instrument diagrams (P&ID).
• 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 performing IDC / providing inputs as required for the following activities:

• Layout review.
• Area classification drawings.
• Safety studies.
• Electrical load list.
• Equipment datasheets.
• Instrument datasheets.
• ESD and F&G logic diagrams and control narratives.

Assist in close out of HAZOP action items.

Participate in internal, customer, and third-party technical audits on engineering deliverables and vendor documents.