Sr Principal Instrumentation Designer

Job Overview:

The Sr Principal Instrumentation Designer completes assignments and directs the work activities of others in the Instrumentation Design discipline. They can solve unique and complex problems and act as a subject matter expert. They can work autonomously within established procedures and practices. The Sr Principal Instrumentation Designer can lead others to solve complex problems and use analytical thought to exercise judgment and identify innovative solutions. They directly impact the achievement of customer, operational, or service objectives.

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 and budgets
• Apply knowledge and/or skills to a range of activities
• Set priorities, organize own work and time to meet objectives, and (as a Lead Designer) forecast and plan resource requirements
• When acting as Lead Designer, in addition:
  • Direct small or medium Instrument Design team as Lead Designer
  • Lead projects as Lead Designer engaging the participation of other disciplines Coordinate all activities within own discipline and Discipline interfaces with other disciplines
  • Lead the design team of the assigned work area and completed within the planned schedule and budget, in accordance with standards, MDR, and project-specific procedures and to а high professional standard
  • Plan, organize, and direct all aspects of Discipline execution on the assigned project including scope, deliverables, schedule, and all Discipline manpower resources - agree allocations with the Engineering Manager
  • Ensure interfaces and deliverables are clearly identified
  • Maintain responsibility progress and productivity, identifying any required corrective action
  • Act as project-based Discipline point of contact in communications and meetings with Project Team, Customer, vendor/supplier and/or subcontractor counterparts; and relevant agencies such as certifying authorities, auditors, third parties, etc.
• When acting as Design Coordinator, in addition:
  • Coordinate large Design team
  • Coordinate project Design interdisciplinary activities to ensure timely and organized distribution of information amongst all Lead Designers
  • Ensure interfaces and deliverables are clearly identified
• Become fully familiar with the project scope of work, specification, schedule, and all inter-discipline requirements; identify concerns as early as practicable and take the appropriate initiative to address the issue
• Identify changes to the scope and promptly raise change notifications and provide any necessary supporting documentation and estimates
• Provide similar support for Variation Order
• Interface with all disciplines to develop a clash-free design
• Interface with other department to obtain input for Discipline design and drawing
• Liaise with other discipline support groups to ensure clearly defined interface, deliverables, and schedule are met
• Document substantive communication (communication that results in a significant decision or assignment of action) and forward copies to Discipline Lead Engineer and Discipline Manager
• Assist Discipline Lead Designer in preparing estimates for proposal and job scope change, which include execution statement, work schedule, and manhour requirements, identify software requirements and any other project-specific requirement
• Raise technical queries to obtain missing information, clarify work scope, and maintain preferred Company procedure, specification, standard, practice, and operational requirement
• Participate in finalizing deliverable list and deliverable, ensure compliance with specification and functional integrity
• Review project schedule and fabrication schedule in relation to construction sequence, milestone, and design scope
• Attend project kickoff and review meeting, vendor/supplier meeting, engineering and design meeting, and offshore site survey, 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
• Develop and maintain the project job book
• Prepare and review discipline deliverables such as:
  • 3D model
  • Detailed design drawing
• Develop conceptual layouts based on experience and good offshore engineering practice & develop these through detailed design
• Assist the lead designer to supervise in the preparation of key discipline drawing
• Liaise with the Engineer responsible for the timely expediting of Vendor Data to efficiently progress the project according to schedule requirement
• Review drawings issued by other disciplines and incorporate the required data into Discipline drawing
• Review vendor drawings and documents and incorporate required vendor data into discipline drawings and document
• Assist in providing necessary design inputs to other disciplines to enable them to proceed with their deliverable
• Generate IDC design documentation for the project
• Perform design verification through single discipline checks (SDC)and/or inter-discipline checks (ID), provide comments to Lead Designer
• Review all project IDC design documentation for detailed technical interface
• Maintain single discipline and inter-discipline check drawings and filing, that include final archiving
• Assist fabrication as required in the resolution of construction difficulties relating to design, problems, clash, etc.
• Monitor progress and maintain the deliverables register on an ongoing basis
• Ensure compliance with the project execution plan and the timely completion and archive of drawings and document
• Keep the Discipline Supervisor/Engineering Manager apprised of all activity and concerns, technical, budgetary, and manpower related
• Assist in providing inputs for actual, plan, and forecast progress report that include associated productivity
• Prepare forecast schedule of delayed deliverables
• Advise the Lead Designer and Design Supervisor/Engineering Manager of problem areas and/or manpower concern
• Report an error and suggest a resolution for the same
• Participate in design review and audit
• Highlight knowledge concepts and ensure learning is entered into the system
• Act as a technical resource to others in their own discipline
• Provide leadership, mentorship, and guidance to others
• Assist in the maintenance of departmental technical guidelines and standards
• Participate in the development and maintenance of Global Procedures, Software, Guidelines, and Standards
• Incorporate approved lessons learned into level 2&3 drafting procedures and standards, as applicable
• Develop an understanding of the business and process
• Identify and provide training to staff in specific techniques and proprietary software
• Assist the Department Manager in identifying departmental needs including the development of personnel and technical capability
• Participate in forums and represent the company as subject matter expert (SME)
• Provide information on employee performance to the Discipline Supervisor/Engineering Manager
• Assist discipline supervisor/engineering manager in interviewing a job applicant
• Prepare/review and (as lead designer) approve instrument design deliverables such as:
  • 3D model instrument scope
  • Layout drawing
  • Instrument hookup/installation detail
  • Wiring/loop diagram
  • Panel and console drawing
  • Instruments drawing list
  • Logic diagram
  • Shutdown hierarchy drawing
  • Schematics and blocks diagram
  • Material schedule
• Participate in the clash resolution meeting, as required
• Travel to the fabrication yard or offshore to assist in mechanical completion, hookup, and/or commissioning, as required
• When acting as Lead Engineer, in addition:
  • Act as project-based Discipline point of contact in communications and meetings with Customer counterpart
  • Ensure substantive communication is documented
  • Prepare bid and project Discipline engineering budget and execution plan, update as required
  • Identify project staff needs based on knowledge of individual engineers' skill sets and provide requests to the Discipline manager
  • Plan, organize, and assign tasks, responsibilities, and manhour budget to the discipline team, and verify tasks are completed within budget
  • Plan Discipline Level 4 detail deliverable schedule/ register compliant with the overall execution plan
  • Prepare work forecast to identify change management plan, corrective action, and real-time schedule
  • Provide Discipline input for actual, plan, and forecast progress reports that include associated productivity
  • Alert the project team of any deviation from the scope or a need to change the order
  • Monitor KPI measurement results and take corrective action as necessary to improve Discipline performance, which includes performance at interface with other
  • Coordinate with other Discipline Lead Engineers and Designers to ensure timely receipt of necessary design input
  • Ensure discipline designer have sufficient input information for the drawing or model being undertaken
  • Raise and approve technical queries to obtain missing information, clarify work scope, and maintain preferred McDermott procedures, specifications, standards, practice, and operational requirement
  • Review and approve discipline project
  • Schedule
  • Execution plan
  • Deliverable list
  • Deliverable
  • Forecast
  • Estimate
  • Progress and productivity report
  • Procedure
  • MTOs
  • Single discipline check (SDC)/inter-discipline check (IDC)
  • Review comments from customers & other agencies on documents and drawing produced by the team, and resolve and give guidance on their update and incorporation
  • Lead the Discipline team during project audit (internal, Customer, and third-party technical audit) and Design Review
  • Assist the Discipline Supervisor/Engineering Manager in the preparation of quarterly forecast and manpower planning
  • Anticipate project engineering needs and plan accordingly
  • Assist the Discipline manager and Project Engineering Manager or Project Manager in the Performance Evaluation of project team member
  • Ensure instrument item clash identified in the 3D model are addressed and resolved
  • Participate in 3D model review, and ensure instrument review comments are close
  • Travel to the fabrication yard or offshore to assist in mechanical completion hookup, and/or commissioning as required
• When acting as design coordinator:
  • Coordinate the timely flow of information and data between design discipline
  • Manage lead designer interface to ensure there are no scope of work gaps or overlaps, and work is being completed in accordance with an agreed schedule
  • Become familiar with the contract scope of work, specification, and schedule, and fully familiar with all inter-discipline requirements: including identifying concerns as early as practicable and taking appropriate initiatives to address the issue
  • Liaise with discipline lead designers to ensure interface responsibilities are clearly defined and understood
  • Monitor changes to scope and ensure changes are communicated to all impacted discipline design lead
  • Ensure affected interface responsibilities are clearly defined and understood
  • Provide similar support for a variation order
  • Ensure substantive communication is documented
  • Coordinate the development of estimates for proposal and job scope change, which include execution statement, work schedule, and manhour requirements, identify software requirements and any other project-specific requirement
  • Participate in finalizing deliverable list and deliverable, ensure compliance with specification and functional integrity
  • Review project schedule and fabrication schedule in relation to construction sequence, milestone, and design scope
  • Attend project kickoff and review meeting, vendor/supplier meeting, engineering and design meeting, and offshore site survey, as required
  • Liaise with the Engineer responsible for the timely expediting of Vendor Data to efficiently progress the project according to schedule requirement
  • Liaise with the responsible designers to expedite discipline design information and data as necessary to meet the agreed schedule
  • Review IDC design documentation for the project for a detailed technical interface
  • Keep the Discipline Supervisor/Engineering Manager apprised of all activity, progress, and concern
  • Participate in design review and audit as required
  • Highlight knowledge concepts and ensure learnings are entered into the system
  • Participate in the development and maintenance of Global Procedures, Software, Guidelines, and Standard

Reports to:
Project: Lead Designer, Project Engineering Manager or Project Manager
Functional: Supervising Designer or Engineering Manager
Liaises With: Lead Designers, Engineers, Project Managers, Project Engineers, and all other Engineering and Design
disciplines, Material Control Team, Document Control, HSE, Vendor, and Customer representatives
Supervises: Design team assigned to different projects during the detailing and production phases

Key Tasks and Responsibilities:

• High school graduate with a diploma in Civil, Electrical, Mechanical, Design, or Drafting in a related discipline or equivalent experience
• Minimum of 14 years of experience with a major contractor or consultant of which 9+ years of experience in predominately offshore oil and gas
• Detailed knowledge of associated industry detailing standards and codes
• Detailed knowledge of 3D and 2D drafting and material control systems (AutoCAD and/or MicroStation)
• Working and/or reviewing experience in PDMS and/or PDS/SPM
• Capable of handling multiple projects
• Recognized expert in one or more skill sets
• Knowledge of QA systems and a good communicator
• Knowledgeable in project coordination and execution skills
• Detailed knowledge of AutoCAD and/or macro compilation skills would be an advantage

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