Principal Construction Support Engineer

**Tasks and Responsibilities**:

- Become 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. Interpret contractual requirements as they relate to engineering execution.
- 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 develop clash free designs.
- Interface with other departments to obtain input for Discipline designs and drawings.
- Maintain close co-ordination with other engineering disciplines, Planning, Fabrication, Marine, and Project Management Team, as required.
- Document substantive communications (communications that result in significant decisions or assignment of actions) and forward copies to Discipline Lead Engineer and Discipline Manager.
- Prepare estimates for bid proposals, including technical query reviews, execution statements and manhour estimates, identifying software requirements and any other project-specific requirements.
- Raise technical queries to obtain missing information, clarify work scope, and to maintain preferred McDermott procedures, specifications, standards, practices and operational requirements.
- Prepare, review, and (as Lead Engineer) approve Discipline engineering design basis, philosophies,
- and technical specifications.
- Participate in finalizing deliverables lists and deliverables, ensuring compliance with specifications and functional integrity.
- Review project schedule and fabrication schedule in relation to construction sequence, milestones, and engineering scope.
- Attend project kickoff and review meetings, vendor meetings, engineering meetings and offshore site surveys, as required.
- Provide technical direction and review of Designers producing products related to Construction Support Engineering.
- Prepare, review, and (as Lead Engineer) approve design reports and procedures.
- Assist in providing necessary design inputs to other disciplines to enable them in proceeding 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, reviewing, and (as Lead Engineer) approving 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
- Review and (as Lead Engineer) approve vendor and subcontractor submittals, checking for compliance with project specifications and providing comments as necessary.
- Review and (as Lead Engineer) approve design verification through single-discipline check/ inter discipline check (IDC).
- Provide technical support to fabrication queries, including identifying defect/ rectification requirements.
- Keep the Discipline Manager and Project Management Team 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.
- Present issues and problems to Customers in a timely manner and assist Lead Engineer in negotiating resolution in accordance with project and company requirements.
- Perform (as required) Technical Quality Audit reviews in accordance with MOR Global Procedures.
- 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.
- Capture Knowledge Objects and enter into MDR's K.now system.
- Guide less experienced engineers on MOR and Discipline procedures, standards, worksheets, design calculations, software, requisitions, technical bid evaluations, technical queries, etc.
- Supervise and guide assigned engineers and coordinate with project Lead Designers for Discipline engineering and design deliverables.
- Responsible for the engineering integrity of the assigned work area.
- Monitor costs of own work processes.
- Assist in the maintenance of departmental technical guidelines and standard calculation notes.
- Participate in development and maintenance of Global Procedures, Software, and Standards.
- May participate in standards development committees or task groups such as API.
- Develop communication and presentation skills (e.g., write technical papers, participate in conferences and/or seminars, present design solu