Senior Principal Structural Designer

The Senior Principal Structural Engineer plays a pivotal role in driving innovation and delivering complex solutions that have a profound impact on the business.

This highly skilled individual will be responsible for conceptualizing and implementing creative solutions to intricate structural challenges, leveraging their broad base of knowledge in Engineering.

• Conceptualize, develop, and implement detailed designs as per design basis, project specifications, design codes, and standards.
• Utilize in-depth expertise and comprehensive knowledge of the business to address complex problems and non-standard situations.
• Create clear and accurate detailed design calculations and analyses including design reports and procedures.
• Manage time effectively to meet objectives and forecast resource requirements (as Lead Engineer).
• Communicate and explain difficult concepts and persuade others to adopt a point of view.
• Lead medium or large Engineering teams, direct discipline engineering design of assigned work areas, and complete projects within planned schedules and budgets.
• Plan, organize, and direct all aspects of Discipline execution on the project including scope, deliverables, schedule, and manpower resources; agree allocations with the Discipline Manager.
• Ensure interfaces and deliverables are identified; maintain progress and productivity; act as project representative for Discipline in meetings.
• Coordinate with customer discipline leads and relevant agencies (certifying authorities, auditors, third parties).
• Train/mentor other employees in the department.
• Assist and monitor MOPEX offices on projects.
• Understand other engineering departments; initiate input from other disciplines.
• Understand construction/fabrication yard and client requirements; maintain commercial insight.
• Help maintain Unifi; prepare bids from sketching data using experience.
• Supervise engineers and designers; define scopes of work for engineering/construction fabrication yard.
• Provide engineering support as required.
• Perform engineering checks of drafting and checks prepared by others; perform design verification through single discipline checks and assist with IDC.
• Prepare MTOs of structures; prepare specifications and subcontract; review vendor data; prepare technical bid evaluations.
• Assist in furthering the department.
• Coordinate and check the work of senior and junior engineers; conduct peer reviews; provide technical assistance.
• Prepare structural analyses and reports or perform specialist tasks (architectural designs, underground piping designs, complex structures, topsides, jackets, weight control reports, COG reports).
• Specialize in multiple fields (geotechnical, steel, concrete, dynamic calculations, FEM, fatigue calculations, earthquake, jackets, FPSOs, blast, hydrodynamics, architectural).
• Specialize in several design codes (EC, ACI/AISC/API, GOST, …).
• Check designs for operability, constructability, and maintainability.
• Prepare project engineering guides.

• Work as Lead Engineer on medium to large EPC projects.
• Be responsible for all engineering and design work on the project.
• Have full control and manage work hours, materials, progress.
• Work in close liaison with the Design Coordinator.
• Set up all engineering computer systems.
• Assist Project Manager with deliverable control, schedule, progress reports, and man-hour/cost estimates.
• Coordinate with project management; train personnel under supervision.
• Responsible for discipline within the engineering group; manage (design) subcontracts.
• Identify and manage changes in the scope of work; file engineering work; provide feedback to the department.

• Bachelor's Degree or Master's Degree in engineering.
• 20+ years of experience in oil and gas with a major contractor or consultants predominantly performing detail design.
• Preferably Registered Professional Engineer or member of professional engineering society as applicable.
• Seasoned knowledge of engineering standards and specifications.
• Good knowledge of engineering software.
• Able to work independently.
• Good working knowledge of English, both oral and written.
• HSE, TQM, and cost-conscious.
• Good technical structural knowledge.
• Good organizer, motivator, and supervisor.
• Keen on improving the effectiveness of the work.
• Shows flexibility and ensures proper hand-over with regards to reassignment to other departments/construction sites/fabrication yards, replacement of colleagues during illness/holidays, assisting other colleagues with heavy workloads, managing/learning current methods and software, and reassignment to other McDermott offices.