Senior Instrumentation Designer

McDermott International, Ltd


Date: 14 hours ago
City: Al Khobar
Contract type: Full time
Job Description

Job Overview:

The Senior Instrumentation Designer completes a variety of Instrumentation Design assignments as needed and can complete work with a limited degree of supervision. They are an informal resource for colleagues with less Instrumentation Design experience. The Senior Instrumentation Designer has developed proficiency in various analytical processes or procedures to carry out assigned tasks. They provide solutions to problems in typical or infrequently occurring situations based on existing precedents or procedures. They directly impact the quality of the work of the team. Offshore experience and S3D /SPI experience required

Responsibilities

Key Tasks and Responsibilities:

  • Prepare and develop arrangement and detail conceptual, FEED, studies, and detail design drawings of high technical quality and professional consistent presentation ensuring clarity and ease of construction
  • Develop 3D models and ensure clash-free with other disciplines
  • Ensure design deliverables are completed and issued per project specifications, MDR, and project Level 2 & 3 procedures, and within agreed schedules
  • Apply knowledge and/or skills to complete а variety of day-to-day activities within own area
  • Continue developing skills to complete repetitive tasks efficiently
  • Prioritize and organize own work to meet agreed-upon deadlines
  • Become 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 supporting documentation and estimates
  • Provide similar support for Variation Orders
  • Interface with all disciplines to develop clash-free designs
  • Interface with other disciplines to obtain input for Discipline designs and drawings
  • Liaise with other discipline support groups to ensure clearly defined interfaces, deliverables, and schedules are met
  • Document substantive communications (communications that result in significant decisions or assignment of actions), and forward copies to Discipline Lead Designer and Discipline Supervisor
  • Assist Discipline Lead Designer in preparing estimates for proposals and job scope changes, including execution statements, work schedules, and manhour requirements
  • Raise technical queries to obtain missing information, clarify work scope, and maintain preferred McDermott procedures, specifications, standards, practices, and operational requirements
  • Participate in finalizing deliverables lists, deliverables, and philosophies to ensure compliance with specifications and functional integrity
  • Attend project kickoff and review meetings, vendor/supplier meetings, engineering and design meetings, and offshore site surveys as required
  • Research Customer standards and procedures to prepare project-specific design procedures and standards for submission to the Customer for approval
  • Set up and maintain the Discipline Master design drawing and document files, including final archiving
  • Prepare Discipline deliverables such as:
    • 3D model
    • Detailed design drawings
    • As-built drawings
  • Review drawings issued by other disciplines and incorporate the required data into Discipline drawings
  • Review vendor drawings and documents and incorporate required vendor data into Discipline drawings and documents
  • Assist in providing necessary design inputs to other disciplines to enable them to proceed with their deliverables
  • Identify all items for which insufficient data is available to allow the drawing or model to be completed (HOLDS), and list these on the drawing and the standard 'HOLDS' list form
  • Notify the Discipline Lead Designer when there are updates to the Holds list
  • Generate IDC design documentation for the project
  • Perform design verification through single discipline checks (SDC) and/or inter-discipline checks (IDC), providing comments to the Lead Designer
  • Review all project IDC design documentation for detailed technical interfaces
  • Maintain single discipline and inter-discipline check drawings and filing
  • Prepare, issue, and update the material and weight data take-offs
  • Assist Fabrication as required in resolving construction difficulties relating to design problems, clashes, etc.
  • Monitor progress and maintain the deliverables register on an ongoing basis
  • Ensure compliance with the Project Execution Plan and the timely completion and archiving of drawings and documents
  • Keep the Lead Designer apprised of all activities, progress, and concerns, including manpower and budgetary-related
  • Assist in providing inputs for actual, planning, and forecasting progress reports, including associated productivity
  • Report errors and suggest a resolution for the same
  • Participate in design reviews and audits
  • Capture lessons learned and entered them into MDR's Lessons Learned system
  • Guide less experienced Designers on MDR and Discipline procedures, standards, worksheets, design calculations, software, technical queries, etc.
  • Guide trainee Designers
  • Assist in the maintenance of departmental technical guidelines and standards
  • Further develop an understanding of MDR's business, including processes and procedures
  • Prepare/review Instrument Design deliverables such as:
    • 3D model Instrument scopes
    • Layout drawings
    • Instrument hook-up/installation details
    • Wiring/loop diagrams
    • Panel and console drawings
    • Instrument drawing lists
    • Logic Diagrams
    • Shutdown hierarchy drawings
    • Schematics and block diagrams
    • Material schedules
  • Participate in clash resolution meetings, as required
  • Travel to the fabrication yard or construction site to assist in mechanical completion, hook-up, and/or commissioning, as required

Reports to:

Project: Lead Designer

Functional: Supervising Designer or Engineering Manager

Liaise With: Engineers, other Designers, Lead Designers, and assigned designers in other disciplines

Supervises: Assigned Designers & Trainee Designers

Qualifications

Essential Qualifications and Education:

  • High School graduate with a diploma in Civil, Electrical, or Mechanical Design or Drafting in a related discipline or equivalent experience
  • 6 years minimum with a major contractor or consultant, of which 2+ years of experience in predominately oil and gas
  • Detailed knowledge of associated industry detailing standards
  • Detailed knowledge of 2D and/or 3D (AutoCAD and/or MicroStation) drafting systems
  • Working experience in E3D and/or S3D
  • Knowledge of QA Systems and good communication would be an advantage
  • Detailed knowledge of AutoCAD and/or Auto Lisp Programming
  • 3D Model creation, Menu, and/or Macro compilation skills

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.

For 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.

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