Job Description

Job Overview:

The Production Engineer - Electrical & Instrumentation is responsible for the overall project inter-discipline coordination between members of the operations support groups, throughout one or more project phases of detail design, fabrication, offshore installation and hook-up. They will report to the Fabrication Operations Engineer or Lead Production Engineer and liaise With Other Discipline Engineers, Project Construction Managers, Fabrication Planning Engineer, Fabrication Superintendents, Procurement Personnel, Yard Supervision, Material Control & Warehousing Personnel, Drafting Personnel as well as supervise production engineering group including drafting squad leaders, materials controllers, planning engineers.

Responsibilities

Key Tasks and Responsibilities:

• Reviews project scope of work, schedules, and specifications. Understands the requirements and deliverables.
• Prepares Scope of Work and Task Listing.
• At project commencement, reviews the fabrication schedule and suggests corrections to the planning team.
• Reviews drawings for constructability and identifies any special items / subcontract requirements.
• Reviews monthly material reports. Ensures and raises problems on material delivery.
• Reviews the material requisitions prior to order. Checks grade, plate sizing assumptions.
• Appraises fabrication management of any project issues which effect the forecasted progress, productivity
• Initiates site queries to utilize available material (substitutions).
• Provides field guidance and ensures compliance with Company specification.
• Attends production meetings and reports concerns.
• Monitors scope changes and issues revision orders.
• Reports weekly fabrication progress and monitors production man-hours and productivity.
• Reviews 4 week look ahead plans and identifies the constraints ( material/ drawings )
• Coordinates with construction engineer to ensure procedures are issued timely/ all parties understand any change.
• Coordinates any sub-contract scope.
• Reviews as-built drawings.
• Lead discipline Production Engineer Supervises other production engineers in his team.
• Lead discipline Production Engineer identifies resource needs for the project and communicate these regularly to Production Engineering Manager.
• Manage timely progress reporting on the project.
• Understands the full contractual scope of work, contract type and milestone schedules.
• Review & understand estimates, ensure they are correct. Provide feedback to estimation dept.
• Reviews constructability and ensure work execution plan is based on the most productive option.
• Conducts fabrication look ahead meetings or site meetings and prioritizes material and drawings to suit.
• Responsible for documenting all scope of work changes (change orders) and coordinating AFC estimate updates.
• Solves technical problems and initiates site queries to ensure work disruption is minimized and productivity is optimized.
• Forecast fabrication requirements (deliverable inputs) to meet the project contract schedule. Highlights issues to Operations Engineer or Construction Manager.
• Leads work pack issuance and follow up of all activities for work pack execution.
• Prepare project specific task listing.
• At commencement of the project participates in fabrication kick-off meeting.
• Appraises construction manager of any project issues which effect the forecasted progress, productivity and schedule commitments.
• Develops a work pack index and sets priorities and deliverable dates for the discipline teams.
• Reviews input deliverable dates (material & drawings) and advises impact to fabrication schedule.
• Authorizes technical queries/correspondence to be issued to the client.
• Participates in development of project fabrication execution plan to meet contract requirements most productively.
• Leads project constructability program effort for fabrication.
• Prepares project fabrication lessons learnt.
• Identifies project risks and opportunities.
• Establishes a productive working relationship with client representatives.
• Leads coordination & follow up with service providers (Example: subcontractors, construction engineering teams).
• Participates in QHSES initiatives and drive achieving objectives. Follow the company policies.
  
  

Qualifications

Essential Qualifications and Education:

Qualifications include:

• Education: B.Sc. Degree
• Specialized knowledge
• Skills and abilities: 3+ years’ experience in oil and gas with major contractor or consultant
• Other characteristics such as personal characteristics
• Professional Certification
• Experience- 3 - 5 years’
  
  

Preferred Qualifications and Education:

• Advanced education (i.e. MBA or other Masters level education)
• Language capabilities (i.e. Fluent in Spanish and/or Portuguese)
  
  

Company Overview and Core Values:

McDermott is a premier, fully-integrated provider of technology, engineering and construction solutions to the energy industry. For more than a century, customers have trusted McDermott to design and build end-to-end infrastructure and technology solutions—from the wellhead to the storage tank—to transport and transform oil and gas into the products the world needs today.

At McDermott, we hold all employees accountable to follow our 5 core values.

• Integrity – we maintain a firm adherence to legal and ethical conduct
• One Team – we are one company, where everyone is equally important
• Go Beyond – we seek courageous and creative solutions
• Well-Being – we promote all forms of well-being
• Commitment – we are reliable and dependable in delivering quality solutions