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McDermott Principal Electrical Designer (Dr/Des) in Altamira, Mexico

Company Overview:

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Job Overview:

The Principal Electrical Designer will handle and manage a group of Senior Electrical Designers in a project, coordinate and assign activities of the Electrical Lofting team members, attend project meetings as required. Principal Electrical Designer will also perform conceptual and detailed analyses of engineering as per design basis, project specifications, design codes, and standards for each assigned project, prepare detailed shop drawings of high technical quality and professional consistent presentation ensuring clarity and ease of construction, develop 3D models and ensure clash free with all other disciplines, and ensure deliverables are completed and issued per project specifications, MDR, and project Level 2 & 3 procedures, and within agreed schedules and budgets.

The Principal Electrical Designer will also prepare clear and accurate reports and procedures, lead the electrical discipline team assigned to each project and complete activities within the planned schedule and budget, in accordance with standards, MDR, and project-specific procedures, and to a high professional standard. Plan, organize, and direct all aspects of Discipline execution on the assigned project including scope, deliverables, schedule, and all manpower resources - agree on allocations with the Construction Support Manager. Act as projects representative for the Discipline during communications and meetings with PMT, Customer, vendor/supplier, and/or subcontractor counterparts; and relevant agencies such as certifying authorities, auditors, third parties, etc.

Key Tasks and Responsibilities:

  • Apply expertise, in-depth skills, and broad knowledge of the business to address complex problems and nonstandard situations

  • Be fully familiar with the Contract 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 in the Change Management system, including providing any necessary supporting documentation and estimates. Provide similar support for Variation Orders

  • Lead discipline by engaging the participation of other disciplines. Coordinate all activities within own discipline and interfaces with other disciplines identifying clashing in designs and obtaining input for Discipline shop drawings

  • Liaise with other discipline support groups to ensure clearly defined interfaces, deliverables, and schedules are met

  • Maintain close coordination with other engineering disciplines, Planning, Fabrication, Marine, and Project Management teams, as required

  • Document substantive communications (communications that result in significant decisions or assignment of actions) and forward copies to the Senior Principal E&I Designer and Construction Support Manager

  • Assist in preparing estimates for proposals and job scope changes, including execution statements, work schedules, and manhour requirements, 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

  • Attend project kickoff meetings, vendor/supplier meetings, and PMT team meetings as required.

  • Develop deliverables lists

  • Research Customer standards and procedures to prepare project-specific design procedures and standards for submission to the Customer for approval, as required

  • Assist in providing necessary inputs to other disciplines to enable them in proceeding with their deliverables

  • Set up and maintain the Discipline Master shop drawing and document files, including final archiving

  • Review drawings issued by other disciplines to incorporate the required data into Discipline drawings

  • Prepare sketches of details to prepare Shop Drawings

  • Review vendor drawings and documents and incorporate required vendor data into Discipline drawings and documents

  • Assist Fabrication as required in the resolution of construction difficulties relating to design problems, clashes, etc., providing technical support to fabrication queries, including identifying defect/rectification requirements

  • Set priorities, organize own work and time to meet objectives, forecast and plan resource requirements

  • Maintain responsibility for progress and productivity, identifying any required corrective action

  • Ensure compliance with the Project Execution Plan and the timely completion and archiving of drawings and documents

  • Keep the Construction Support Manager, Project Management Team and the Senior Principal E&I Designer apprised of all activities and concerns, technical, budgetary, and manpower related

  • Captured lessons learned and entered MDR's Lessons Learned system

  • Prepare/review and approve Electrical discipline deliverables such as:

  • As-built drawings, as required.

  • Filing of project drawings and documents

  • Equipment Support Sheets

  • Bulk Support Sheets

  • Service Support Sheets.

  • Design Change Notifications

  • Conduit and Cable Schedules

  • Cable drum schedules

  • Data Analysis Reports

  • Technical Evaluations

  • Load Lists

  • Installation Detail Shop Drawings

  • Single Line Diagram Shop Drawings

  • Electrical Support Detail Shop Drawings

  • Layout of Facility Shop Drawings

  • Wiring Diagram

  • Electrical drawing lists

  • Assist procurement personnel in procuring discipline equipment, materials, and services. Procurement assistance includes evaluating technical quotations and preparing queries and recommendations

  • Assist in updating weight reports based on receipt of vendor information

  • Check drawings

  • Check engineering performed by others within the Discipline

  • Be aware of costs related to your own work and of the discipline

  • Review and provide input to secondary cable routing (branch cable trays, channel trays, single tubing, etc.) where detailing not done

  • Advise fabrication Yard of installation locations for small E&i equipment that are not sufficiently detailed in the AFC drawings

  • Assist in providing inputs for actual, planning, and forecasting progress reports including associated productivity

  • Lead the Discipline team during internal, Customer, and third-party technical audits

  • Provide responses to Customers and other agencies (such as certifying authorities, auditors, third parties, etc.) on their review and approval

  • Act as a resource for colleagues with fewer experience engineers on MDR and Discipline procedures, standards, worksheets, design calculations, software, requisitions, technical bid evaluations, technical queries, etc.

  • Identify all items for which insufficient data is available to allow the shop drawings to be completed (HOLDS), and list these on the drawing and on the standard 'HOLDS' list form

  • Report errors and suggest a resolution for the same

  • Participate in the development and maintenance of Global Procedures, Software, Guidelines, and Standards

  • Prepare forecasting schedules for delayed deliverables

  • Advise the Construction Support Manager of problem areas and/or manpower concerns

  • Identify project staff needs based on knowledge of individual skill sets and provide requests to the Construction Support manager

  • Provide information on employee performance to the Construction Support Manager

  • Assist to Construction Support Manager in interviewing job applicants

  • Plan, organize and assign tasks, responsibilities, and manhour budgets to the Discipline team, and verify tasks are completed within budgets

  • Monitor KPI measurement results and take corrective action as necessary to improve Discipline performance, including a performance at interfaces with others

  • Assist to Construction Support Manager in the preparation of quarterly forecasts and manpower planning

  • Assist the Construction Support Manager in the Performance Evaluation of project team members

  • Develop communication and presentation skills (e.g., write technical papers, participate in conferences and/or seminars, present design solutions, and/or present topics at "lunch and learns", etc.)

Essential Qualifications and Education:

  • Bachelor’s degree or Technical Career in electrical engineering

  • 8 to 12 years in oil and gas with major contractors or consultant in offshore and/or onshore facilities

  • Familiar with the content and application of national and international standards, codes, and guidelines as applicable for offshore and onshore facilities

  • Knowledge regarding Material specifications

  • Interpretation of drawings for offshore and onshore facilities

  • Microsoft office, Adobe acrobat & AUTOCAD 2D

  • Knowledge of the English language (preferred advanced level)

  • Participate in the elaboration and development of L2, L3, and L4 procedures according to the updating of Global procedures used in MDR

  • Participate in the updating process of the Job Descriptions of E&I disciplines in the Construction Support Department

  • Share knowledge about best practices for Safety

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McDermott is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, genetic information, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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