Production Engineer – Electrical & Instrumentation

Job Description

<strong>Job Description<br><br></strong><strong>Job Overview: <br><br></strong>Reports to: Fabrication Operations Engineer or Lead Production Engineer.<br><br>Liaise With Other Discipline Engineers, Project Construction Managers, Fabrication Planning Engineer, Fabrication Superintendents, Procurement Personnel, Yard Supervision, Material Control &amp; Warehousing Personnel, Drafting Personnel.<br><br>Supervises production engineering group including drafting squad leaders, materials controllers, planning engineers.<br><ul><li>Responsible for the overall project inter-discipline coordination between members of the operations support groups, throughout one or more project phases of detail design, fabrication, offshore installation and hook-up.</li><li>Lead discipline Production Engineer Supervises other production engineers in his team.</li><li>Lead discipline Production Engineer identifies resource needs for the project and communicate these regularly to Production Engineering Manager.</li><li>Manage timely progress reporting on the project.</li><li>Understands the full contractual scope of work, contract type and milestone schedules.</li><li>Review &amp; understand estimates, ensure they are correct. Provide feedback to estimation dept.</li><li>Reviews constructability and ensure work execution plan is based on the most productive option.</li><li>Conducts fabrication look ahead meetings or site meetings and prioritizes material and drawings to suit.</li><li>Responsible for documenting all scope of work changes (change orders) and coordinating AFC estimate updates.</li><li>Solves technical problems and initiates site queries to ensure work disruption is minimized and productivity is optimized.</li><li>Forecast fabrication requirements (deliverable inputs) to meet the project contract schedule. Highlights issues to Operations Engineer or Construction Manager.</li><li>Leads work pack issuance and follow up of all activities for work pack execution.</li><li>Prepare project specific task listing.</li><li>At commencement of the project participates in fabrication kick-off meeting.</li><li>Appraises construction manager of any project issues which effect the forecasted progress, productivity and schedule commitments.</li><li>Develops a work pack index and sets priorities and deliverable dates for the discipline teams.</li><li>Reviews input deliverable dates (material &amp; drawings) and advises impact to fabrication schedule. </li><li>Authorizes technical queries/correspondence to be issued to the client.</li><li>Participates in development of project fabrication execution plan to meet contract requirements most productively.</li><li>Leads project constructability program effort for fabrication.</li><li>Prepares project fabrication lessons learnt.</li><li>Identifies project risks and opportunities.</li><li>Establishes a productive working relationship with client representatives.</li><li>Leads coordination &amp; follow up with service providers (Example: subcontractors, construction engineering teams).</li><li>Participates in QHSES initiatives and drive achieving objectives. Follow the company policies.<br><br></li></ul><strong>Responsibilities<br><br></strong><strong>Key Tasks and Responsibilities: <br><br></strong><ul><li>Reviews project scope of work, schedules, and specifications. Understands the requirements and deliverables.</li><li>Prepares Scope of Work and Task Listing. </li><li>At project commencement, reviews the fabrication schedule and suggests corrections to the planning team.</li><li>Reviews drawings for constructability and identifies any special items / subcontract requirements.</li><li>Reviews monthly material reports. Ensures and raises problems on material delivery. </li><li>Reviews the material requisitions prior to order. Checks grade, plate sizing assumptions.</li><li>Appraises fabrication management of any project issues which effect the forecasted progress, productivity </li><li>Initiates site queries to utilize available material (substitutions). </li><li>Provides field guidance and ensures compliance with Company specification. </li><li>Attends production meetings and reports concerns.</li><li> Monitors scope changes and issues revision orders.</li><li>Reports weekly fabrication progress and monitors production man-hours and productivity. </li><li>Reviews 4 week look ahead plans and identifies the constraints ( material/ drawings ) </li><li>Coordinates with construction engineer to ensure procedures are issued timely/ all parties understand any change.</li><li>Coordinates any sub-contract scope. </li><li>Reviews as-built drawings.<br><br></li></ul><strong>Qualifications<br><br></strong><strong>Essential Qualifications and Education: <br><br></strong>Qualifications include:<br><ul><li>Education: B.Sc. Degree</li><li>Specialized knowledge</li><li>Skills and abilities: 3+ years’ experience in oil and gas with major contractor or consultant</li><li>Other characteristics such as personal characteristics</li><li>Professional Certification </li><li>Experience- 3 – 5 years’<br><br></li></ul><strong>Preferred Qualifications and Education:<br><br></strong><ul><li>Advanced education (i.e. MBA or other Masters level education)</li><li>Language capabilities (i.e. Fluent in Spanish and/or Portuguese) <br><br></li></ul><strong>Company Overview and Core Values:<br><br></strong>McDermott is a premier, fully-integrated provider of technology, engineering and construction solutions to the energy industry. For more than a century, customers have trusted McDermott to design and build end-to-end infrastructure and technology solutions—from the wellhead to the storage tank—to transport and transform oil and gas into the products the world needs today.<br><br>At McDermott, we hold all employees accountable to follow our 5 core values.<br><ul><li>Integrity – we maintain a firm adherence to legal and ethical conduct </li><li>One Team – we are one company, where everyone is equally important </li><li>Go Beyond – we seek courageous and creative solutions </li><li>Well-Being – we promote all forms of well-being </li><li>Commitment – we are reliable and dependable in delivering quality solutions</li></ul>