Senior Telecom Engineer

Overview

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Job Description

Job Overview:

The Senior Telecom Engineer uses best practices and knowledge of internal or external issues to improve the Telecommunications discipline within McDermott. They will act as a resource for colleagues with less experience and share their conceptual and practical expertise related to the Telecommunications discipline. The Senior Telecom Engineer solves complex problems and uses their discipline-specific knowledge to improve their products or services. The Senior Telecom Engineer impacts a range of customer, operational, project, or service activities with the Telecommunications team and other related teams and ensures that they are working within the appropriate guidelines and policies.

Responsibilities

Key Tasks and Responsibilities:

• Perform conceptual, FEED, studies and detailed analyses and design as per design basis, project specifications, design codes, and standards related to Telecom systems
• Apply knowledge and skills to a wide range of standard and non-standard 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
• Clearly communicate and explain complex issues and work to establish understanding
• Be fully familiar with the project 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, including providing any necessary supporting documentation and estimates, providing similar support for 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 coordination with other engineering disciplines, Planning, Fabrication, and Project Management Team, as required
• Document substantive communications (communications that result in significant decisions or assignment of actions) and forward copies to the Discipline Lead Engineer and Discipline Manager
• Assist in the preparation of estimates for bid proposals, including technical query reviews, execution statements and manhour estimates
• Raise technical queries to obtain missing information, clarify work scope, and to maintain preferred McDermott procedures, specifications, standards, practices, and operational requirements
• Prepare Discipline engineering design basis, philosophies, and technical specifications, as required
• Participate in finalizing deliverables 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 Telecom Engineering
• Prepare and review design reports and procedures
• Assist in providing necessary design inputs to other disciplines to enable them to proceed with their deliverables
• Assist procurement personnel in procuring Discipline equipment, materials, and services; ensuring that work produced complies with Customer objectives and procedures; procurement assistance includes preparing and reviewing requisitions, evaluating technical quotations and preparing queries, compiling bid tabulations and recommendations, preparing purchase requisitions, and coordinating 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
• Review vendor and subcontractor submittals, checking for compliance with project specifications and providing comments as necessary
• Perform design verification through single-discipline check/inter-discipline check (IDC)
• Provide technical support to all fabrication queries, including identifying defects/rectification requirements
• Keep the Lead Engineer apprised of all activities and concerns, technical, budgetary and manpower related
• Assist in providing inputs for actual, planning, and forecasting progress reports including associated productivity
• Check final subcontractor and vendor data manuals to ensure that all requested data has been received and approved
• Participate in internal, Customer, and third-party technical audits on engineering deliverables and vendor documents
• Assist Lead Engineer with responses to Customer and other agencies (such as certifying authorities, auditors, third parties, etc.) on their review and approval
• Capture lessons learned and enter into 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 of the discipline
• Prepare/review Telecom systems definition, including philosophy, specifications, safety drawings, and system architecture
• Prepare/review FDS&GDS logic (as applicable)/cause & effect diagrams (in cooperation with Instrumentation Engineering)
• Prepare/update/review specifications and data sheets for Telecom equipment
• Prepare/review Telecom equipment spare parts lists
• Prepare/review inputs to P&ID (HSE Process Part especially) development and markups based on receipt of vendor information, Review Telecom equipment testing procedures
• Attend Telecom equipment FATs, as required
• Assist in close out of HAZOP action items if applicable
• Gain deep knowledge of Telecom related systems (FDS, GDS, CCTV, TEL/LAN, Radio Systems (RS), Intercom Systems (IS), Public Address General Alarm Systems (PA-GA), Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) and/or Access Control Systems (ACS), etc.)

Reports to:
Project: Lead Engineer
Functional: Supervising Engineer or Engineering Manager
Liaise with: AII Engineering disciplines, Fabrication group, Safety Department, Document Control, Procurement Group, Subcontractors and Vendors, and Customers
Supervises: Telecom Engineers

Qualifications

Essential Qualifications and Education:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical, or Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering, Master’s Degree is preferred
• 8-15 years of experience in oil and gas with a major contractor or consultant predominantly performing detail 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
• Preferably Registered Professional Engineer or member of a professional engineering society

Knowledge of Functional Safety (HW/SW design acc. IEC 61508, Functional Safety Analysis, Design and Operation acc. IEC 61511)