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McDermott Senior Electrical Designer (Dr/Des) in Altamira, Mexico

Company Overview:

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Job Overview:

Perform Electrical conceptual and detailed analyses of engineering as per design basis, project specifications, design codes, and standards. Prepare detailed shop drawings of high technical quality and professional consistent presentation ensuring clarity and ease of construction. Develop 3D models and ensure clash free with all other disciplines. Ensure deliverables are completed and issued as per project specifications, MDR, and project Level 2 & 3 procedures, and within agreed schedules. Prepare clear and accurate reports and procedures.

Key Tasks and Responsibilities:

  • Apply expertise, knowledge, and skills to a wide range of nonstandard situations

  • Apply expertise, knowledge, and/or skills to complete a variety of day-to-day activities within your own area

  • 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. Provide similar support for Variation Orders

  • Interface with all disciplines to identify clashes in designs and to obtain input for Discipline shop drawings

  • Liaise with Other discipline support groups to ensure clearly defined interfaces, deliverables, and schedules are met

  • Maintain close coordination with other engineering disciplines, Planning, Fabrication, Marine, and Project Management teams, as required. Document substantive communications (communications that result in significant decisions or assignment of actions) and forward copies to the Principal Electrical Designer and Construction Support Manager

  • Assist in the preparation of estimates for bid proposals, including technical query reviews, work schedules, execution statements, and manhour estimates

  • Raise technical queries to obtain missing information, clarify work scope, and maintain preferred McDermott procedures, specifications, standards, practices, and operational requirements

  • Attend project kickoff meetings, vendor/supplier meetings, and PMT team meetings as required

  • Participate in the development of deliverables lists

  • Research Customer standards and procedures to prepare project-specific discipline procedures and standards for submission to the Customer for approval, as required

  • Assist in providing necessary inputs to other disciplines to enable them in proceeding with their deliverables

  • Set up and maintain the Discipline Master shop drawing and document files, including final archiving

  • Review drawings issued by other disciplines to incorporate the required data into Discipline drawings

  • Prepare sketches of details to prepare Shop Drawings

  • Review vendor drawings and documents and incorporate required vendor data into Discipline shop drawings and documents, as required

  • Review vendor and subcontractor submittals, checking for compliance with project specifications and providing comments as necessary

  • Assist Fabrication as required in the resolution of construction difficulties relating to design problems, clashes, etc.

  • Prioritize, organize, and manage own time and work to meet agreed-upon deadlines and budgets, and develop plans for short-term work activities in own area or project

  • Monitor progress and maintain the Discipline deliverables register on an ongoing basis

  • Keep the Principal Electrical Designer apprised of all activities and concerns, technical, budgetary, and manpower related

  • Captured lessons learned and entered MDR's Lessons Learned system.Prepare Electrical discipline deliverables such as:

  • As-built drawings, as required

  • Filing of project drawings and documents

  • Equipment Support Sheets

  • Bulk Support Sheets

  • Service Support Sheets

  • Design Change Notifications

  • Conduit and Cable Schedules

  • Cable drum schedules

  • Data Analysis Reports

  • Technical Evaluations

  • Load Lists

  • Installation Detail Shop Drawings

  • Single Line Diagram Shop Drawings

  • Electrical Support Detail Shop Drawings

  • Layout of Facility Shop Drawings

  • Wiring Diagram

  • Electrical drawing list

  • Assist procurement personnel in procuring discipline equipment, materials, and services. Procurement assistance includes evaluating technical quotations, and preparing queries and recommendations, as directed by Principal Electrical Designer

  • Assist in updating weight reports based on receipt of vendor information

  • Check drawings

  • Check engineering performed by others within the Discipline

  • Be aware of costs related to your own work and of the discipline

  • Review and provide input to secondary cable routing (branch cable trays, channel trays, etc.) where detailing is not done

  • Advise fabrication Yard of installation locations for small E&i equipment that are not sufficiently detailed in the AFC drawings

  • Assist in providing inputs for actual, planning, and forecasting progress reports including associated productivity

  • Participate in internal, Customer, and third-party technical audits

  • Assist to Principal Electrical Designer with responses to Customers and other agencies (such as certifying authorities, auditors, third parties, etc.) on their review and approval

  • Act as a resource for colleagues with fewer experience engineers on MDR and Discipline procedures, standards, worksheets, software, technical bid evaluations, technical queries, etc.

  • Identify all items for which insufficient data is available to allow the shop drawings to be completed (HOLDS), and list these on the drawing and on the standard 'HOLDS' list form

  • Report errors and suggest a resolution for the same

  • Assist in the maintenance of departmental technical guidelines, procedures, and standards

  • ​​​​​​​Continue developing skills to complete repetitive tasks efficiently

Essential Qualifications and Education:

  • Bachelor’s degree or Technical Career in electrical engineering

  • 5 to 8 years in oil and gas with a major contractor or consultant in offshore and/or onshore facilities

  • Familiar with the content and application of national and international standards, codes, and guidelines as applicable for offshore and onshore facilities

  • Knowledge regarding to Material specifications

  • Interpretation of drawings for offshore and onshore facilities

  • Microsoft office, Adobe acrobat & AUTOCAD 2D

  • Knowledge of the English language (preferred advanced level)

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McDermott is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, genetic information, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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