Senior Manager Mechanical Engineering

•    Provide leadership to managers and professional staff within a department.

•    Accountable for the performance and results of multiple disciplines within a department.

•    Apply managerial expertise to achieve financial and operational objectives.

•    Resolve a variety of complex problems that have implications within the area of responsibility.

•    Develop operational plans to achieve business objectives.

•    Influence customer and/or organizational leadership to achieve operational objectives.

•    Manage the performance of Discipline employees through goal setting, ongoing assessment, and coaching.

•    Contribute to functional strategy development.

•    Propose scope splits between Engineering offices and/or subcontractors (as applicable) at the bid stage and the award.

•    Negotiate with other engineering disciplines, Fabrication, Marine, and Project Management Teams to ensure the best schedules and execution plans within agreed budgets.

•    Attend project kickoff and review meetings, vendor meetings, and engineering meetings, as required.

•    Interface with peers and Global Engineering.

•    Foster teamwork of Regional or Functional Managers.

•    Provide and direct bid assistance.

•    Ensure availability and allocate discipline manpower resources as required to provide agreed deliverables and meet agreed schedules and budgets.

•    Maintain historical norms to establish budgets and forecasts.

•    Prepare/review the department's budgets and forecasts.

•    Manage financial and operational objectives.

•    Ensure departmental plans are aligned with business, financial, and operational objectives.

•    Meet group DOE forecasts, within schedule and budget.

•    Review/approve departmental key documents and drawings such as:

o    Progress and productivity report.

o    Workhours/timesheet bookings.

o    Requisitions for software, computers, and other departmental expenses.

o    Expense reports.

o    Estimates for proposals, including cost, schedule, and manhour estimates and execution plans.

o    Forecasting reports.

o    Project-specific procedures and design reports.

•    Conduct staff feedback meetings.

•    Identify and resolve technical, operational, and organizational problems.

•    Keep the Director, Area Manager, and Project Management Teams apprised of high-level activities and concerns, technical, budgetary, and manpower related.

•    Plan and recommend department manpower, training/ development and assist in recruiting resources.

•    Coordinate the training and development of Discipline personnel.

•    Evaluate performance and recommend changes in the classification and compensation of department personnel.

•    Travel on a regular basis to the other office locations within Offshore Middle East and if required, also to the Chennai engineering center.

Reports to:

Functional: Senior Director Engineering

Liaise with: Engineering Directors in regional office locations, Managers and Supervisors of other Engineering / Design Disciplines, Project Managers, Project Engineers, and Project Management Teams; Offshore/Onshore Managers, Planning Managers, Proposals Department, Procurement Department, Safety Department, HR Department, QC and Certification Group, External McDermott Offices, Client Representatives, Vendor & Subcontractor Representatives

Supervises: All Discipline Managers, Engineers, Designers, and support personnel within the department

•    Bachelor's Degree or Master's Degree in Mechanical Engineering.

•    Twenty plus (20+) years of experience and proven leadership experience in Oil and Gas with major contractors or consultants.

•    Five plus (5+) years of proven management experience of leading the full mechanical discipline (Rotating, Package and Static equipments plus HVAC scope) in a similar Oil and Gas industry contractor or consultants.

•    Registered Professional Engineer or member of Professional Engineering Society as applicable.

•    General multi-discipline knowledge of design techniques and analysis methods, and general knowledge of the theory, content, and application of statutory codes and guidelines as applicable offshore.

•    Detailed knowledge of project execution and managerial skills.