Job Overview
Perform conceptual, FEED, and detailed analyses and design as per design basis, project specifications, design codes and standards. Apply in-depth skills and broad knowledge of the business to address complex problems and nonstandard situations. Prepare clear and accurate detailed design calculations and analyses including design reports and procedures.
Responsibilities
Key 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 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 Flow Assurance 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 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
- Guide less experienced engineers on 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 solutions, and/or present topics at lunch and learns etc.)
- Identify and provide training to staff in specific techniques and proprietary software
- Provide information on employee performance to the Discipline Manager
- Assist Discipline manager in interviewing job applicants
- Review Customer and 3rd party reports, verify the flow assurance design basis and provide comments to Lead Engineer, identifying any potential issues and options for mitigation or resolution
- Utilize PVTSim, PIPESIM and OLGA to perform flow assurance simulations for different scenarios, including troubleshooting
- Analyze the results of simulations and present findings in reports
- Perform, review, and (as Lead Engineer) approve the following designs, analyses and evaluations:
- Reservoir fluid characterization analyses
- Optimization of subsea field layout architecture
- Steady state thermal and hydraulic analyses
- Transient thermal and hydraulic analyses
- Transient liquid line surge analyses
- Liquid system surge analyses
- Transient gas line packing/un-packing and depressurization analyses
- When acting as Lead Engineer, in addition:
- Act as project-based Discipline point of contact in communications and meetings with Customer counterparts
- Ensure substantive communications are documented
- Prepare bid's and project's Discipline engineering budget and execution plans, updating as required
- Identify project staff needs based on knowledge of individual engineer's skill sets and provide requests to the Discipline manager
- Plan, organize and assign tasks, responsibilities, and manhour budgets to the discipline team, and verify tasks are completed within budgets
- Plan Discipline Level 4 detail deliverable schedule/ register compliant with the overall execution plan
- Prepare working forecasts identifying change management plans, corrective action and real- time schedule
- Provide Discipline inputs for actual, planning and forecasting progress reports including associated productivity
- Alert project team of any deviation from the scope or a need for change order
- Monitor KPI measurement results, and take corrective action as necessary to improve Discipline performance, including performance at interfaces with others
- Coordinate with other Discipline Lead Engineers and Designers to ensure timely receipt of necessary design inputs
- Review and approve requisitions, technical quotation evaluations and queries, compiled bid tabulations and recommendations, and purchase requisitions; and coordinate with Procurement to expedite vendor documents as required
- Lead the Discipline team during project audits (internal, Customer and third party technical audits) and Design Reviews
- Review comments from Customers & other agencies on documents and drawings produced by the team, and resolve and give guidance on their update and incorporation
- Assist Discipline manager in the preparation of quarterly forecasts and manpower planning
- Anticipate project engineering needs and plan accordingly
- Coordinate with vendor for discipline managed/procured items
- Assist Discipline manager and Project Engineering Manager or Project Manager in Performance Evaluation of project team members
- Manage own time to meet objectives, and (as Lead Engineer) forecast and plan resource requirements
- Clearly communicate and explain difficult concepts and persuade others to adopt a point of view
- Perform detailed flow assurance analyses, determining solutions for related problems
- When acting as Lead Engineer, in addition:
- Direct small or medium Flow Assurance Engineering team as a Lead Engineer
- Lead the Discipline engineering design of the assigned work area and complete within planned schedule and budget, in accordance with standards and project-specific procedures and to a high professional standard
- Plan, organize and direct all aspects of Discipline execution on the assigned project including scope, deliverables, schedule and all manpower resources - agree allocations with the Discipline Manager
- Ensure interfaces and deliverables are clearly identified
- Maintain responsibility for progress and productivity, identifying any required corrective action.
- Act as project representative for the Discipline during meetings with Project Team, Customer discipline lead and relevant agencies such as certifying authorities, auditors, third parties, etc.
Essential Qualifications and Education:
- 10+ years in oil and gas with major contractor or consultant predominantly performing detail design of offshore facilities
- Bachelor Degree in Chemical, Mechanical or Petroleum Engineering
- Detailed knowledge of design techniques and analysis methods, and detailed knowledge of the theory, content and application of standards, codes and guidelines as applicable for offshore
- Knowledgeable in project coordination and execution skills
- Has developed advanced knowledge of the flow assurance principles, tools and solutions
- BS Degree holders would have pursued at least some graduate level engineering course work, if not working toward MS Degree, or attended advanced technical seminars
Preferred Qualifications and Education:
- Advanced degree is Preferred-MSc or PhD
- Preferably Registered Professional Engineer or member of professional engineering society
