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Senior Project Engineer

McDermott
United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 24 Jun 2025

About the role

Job Overview:

The Senior Operations Engineer (Marine) uses best practices and knowledge to solve complex Marine Construction challenges. The Senior Operations Engineer (Marine) provides technical and engineering support to an offshore construction project or tender.   The Senior Operations Engineer (Marine) may be involved in all stages of a project life cycle from providing technical support to an early engagement commercial pursuit on through to project execution and final close out.    The role is an office-based position, however regular on site field support (construction sites and offshore locations) is required to properly execute the job duties.   The Senior Operations Engineer will act as a resource including leading and supervising engineers with less experience and share their conceptual and practical expertise in the support of planning and executing offshore construction projects.

Key Tasks and Responsibilities:

  • Coordinate and review inputs from the various Engineering disciplines, functional departments, and sub-contractors contributing to the Engineering portion of a project
  • Coordinate and ensure the generation of deliverables, reports, and procedures required
  • Support management of the Engineering portion of the project as directed  
  • Use expertise and project experience to solve complex problems by identifying innovative solutions  
  • Manage time to meet objectives; forecast and plan resource requirements  
  • Assist the Project Engineering Manager in planning, organizing, coordinating, and controlling small projects by establishing policies, procedures, systems, and requirements
  • Act as a liaison between the Customer and Project Engineering Manager and Engineering Team, including third-party agencies and subcontractors
  • Assist in the preparation and implementation of the Engineering Project Execution Plan (PEP)
  • Assist in the preparation of the work-sharing Interface Plan & Scope Split Matrix
  • Ensure all scopes of work are addressed, handover points are understood and agreed upon, and that there are no scope gaps or overlaps between the work-sharing offices and any subcontractors
  • Review the Project Plan along with the project planner and prepare subcontract scope packages for any work that is required to be subcontracted
  • Attend Engineering Project Readiness reviews as needed  
  • Coordinate and become familiar with all inputs and changes to the Engineering Project Plan, the scope of work, drawings, and specifications
  • Facilitate logging and evaluating impacts of changes in the Desk Top Change Management System (DTCMS)
  • Review any scope of work documents produced by the respective functional departments and identify changes impacting Engineering, update the Engineering Scope of Work documents as required/agreed, and assist in the preparation of change orders
  • Coordinate information between Engineering and other functions (such as Fabrication, Marine, etc.) to ensure timely receipt and delivery of necessary design inputs
  • Ensure that registers of all documents received by Engineering as well as sent are maintained and updated by Document Control, inclusive of timely distribution to all concerned personnel, departments, other entities, and subcontractor(s) as necessary
  • Document substantive communications (communications that result in significant decisions or assignment of actions) and forward copies to the Engineering Project Manager
  • Facilitate the development and monitor closeout of technical queries to obtain missing information, clarify work scope, and maintain preferred McDermott procedures, specifications, standards, practices, and operational requirement
  • Coordinate and progress site queries related to subcontracted works
  • Review project schedule and fabrication schedule about construction sequence, milestones, and engineering scope, checking for alignment
  • Attend Weekly Progress Meetings (internal as well as with Customers) and prepare the Minutes of Meetings
  • Coordinate and ensure that Engineering and associated Design work, including weight control  
  • information and necessary updates are carried out by the respective discipline personnel by the specifications and schedule
  • Ensure all procedures and calculations are submitted to the Customer for review and approval by the contract
  • Monitor their approvals with the Customer
  • Coordinate with the Project Quality Manager to ensure that the Engineering work is being performed per the Quality plans and that all necessary inspections and certifications are available for the final documentation package
  • Coordinate with the Project Procurement Manager/Coordinator to ensure that specifications, TBEs, vendor data expediting, and vendor data approvals required to be provided by Engineering are

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