Job Description
The Senior Installation Analysis Engineer uses best practices and knowledge of internal or external issues to improve the Installation Analysis discipline within McDermott. They act as a resource for colleagues with less experience, sharing conceptual and practical expertise related to the Installation Analysis discipline. The engineer solves complex problems using discipline‑specific knowledge to improve products and services, impacting a range of customer, operational, project, or service activities with the Installation Analysis team and other related teams. They ensure compliance with guidelines and policies.
Responsibilities
Perform conceptual, FEED, and detailed design as per design basis, project specifications, design codes, and standards
Direct Engineering team when assigned as a Project Coordinator on 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
Communicate and explain complex issues and work to establish understanding
Provide engineering support onboard installation vessels offshore, when required to do so
Be fully familiar with the project scope of work, specifications, schedule, and all inter‑discipline requirements; identify concerns early and take appropriate initiatives
Identify changes to scope and promptly raise change notifications, including providing any necessary supporting documentation and estimates; support 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 cooperation with other engineering disciplines, Planning, Fabrication, Marine, and Project Management Teams, as required
Document substantive communications and forward copies to the Discipline Lead Engineer
Assist in preparing 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 deliverable 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 Construction/Installation Support Engineering
Prepare and review design reports
Assist in providing necessary design inputs to other disciplines to enable them to proceed with their deliverables
When assigned, assist procurement personnel in producing Discipline equipment, materials, and services; ensure compliance with customer objectives and procedures; prepare and review requisitions, evaluate quotations, prepare queries, compile bid tabulations and recommendations, prepare purchase requisitions, and coordinate with Procurement to expedite vendor documents, as directed by Discipline Lead Engineer
Assist in updating weight report based on receipt of vendor information
Check engineering performed by others within the Discipline
Perform design verification through single‑discipline check/inter‑discipline check (IDC)
Provide technical support to all fabrication queries, including identifying defect/rectification requirements
Keep the Lead engineer apprised of all activities and concerns (technical, budgetary, manpower)
Assist in providing inputs for actual, planning, and forecasting progress reports including associated productivity
Participate in internal, customer, and third‑party technical audits on engineering deliverables and vendor documents
Assist Lead engineer with responses to customers and other agencies (e.g., certifying authorities, auditors, third parties) on their review and approval
Capture lessons learned and enter into the MDR’s Lessons Learned system
Act as a resource for colleagues with less experience
Guide less experienced engineers on MDR and Discipline procedures, standards, worksheets, design calculations, software, requisitions, technical bid evaluations, technical queries, etc.
Be aware of costs related to own work and the discipline
In the Pipeline installation discipline, perform/review Pipeline Installation Engineering designs, analyses, evaluations, calculations, and procedures for transportation and installation: submarine pipelines, risers, spools, PLETS and manifolds, cables
In the Structural Installation discipline, perform/review Structural Installation Engineering designs, analyses, evaluations, calculations, and procedures for load out, transportation, and installation of offshore structures, including barge upgrades/modifications
In the Naval Installation discipline, perform/review Naval Architecture Engineering designs, analyses, evaluations, calculations, and procedures related to all aspects of marine operations covering load out, transportation, and installation
Additional skills (preferred, not mandatory): perform/review designs, analyses, evaluations, calculations, and procedures such as erection sequences for jackets, topsides, and other structures; load out procedures and guidance during operations; construction lift analyses and procedures for activities such as float‑over, stacking roll‑ups, etc.; weighing procedures; design and detailing of miscellaneous fabrication yard items; crane arrangements and rigging arrangements; trailer arrangements/operations, including drawings and procedures
Reports to and Liaison
Reports to: Discipline Lead Engineer
Liaise with: All Engineering disciplines, Fabrication Group, Safety Dept, Document Control, Procurement Group, Subcontractors, Project Management Team, Vendors, and Customers
Supervises: Engineers
Qualifications
Bachelor's Degree in Naval Architecture, Civil/Structural/Mechanical Engineering (Master's degree preferred)
8–15 years of experience in oil and gas with a major contractor or consultant predominantly performing construction and installation design
Strong working knowledge of many design techniques and analysis methods, and detailed knowledge of the content and application of standards codes and guidelines as applicable for onshore and offshore construction
Preferably Registered Professional Engineer or member of a professional engineering society
About Us
Our ingenuity fuels daily life. Together, we’ve forged some of the most trusted partnerships across the energy value chain to make what was once just an idea a reality: laying subsea infrastructure thousands of feet below sea level, installing platforms hundreds of miles from shore, using our expertise to design and build offshore wind infrastructure, and reshaping the onshore landscape to deliver the energy products the world needs safely and sustainably. Over more than 100 years, we’ve been making the impossible possible. Today, we’re driving the energy transition with more than 30,000 of the brightest minds across 54 countries.
Seniority level
Mid‑Senior level
Employment type
Full‑time
Job function
Engineering and Information Technology
Industries
Engineering Services and Oil and Gas
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