Senior Design Engineer
Description
The Senior Design Engineer will work within a multi-disciplinary department. This individual will be challenged to hold a key role in Front End Engineering & Development studies and support large subsea system projects and give support in execution of new technology developments. This position will support the execution of subsea projects by providing technical expertise and engineering leadership. The senior subsea engineer should be team-oriented and customer focused with excellent interpersonal skills and has the ability to handle multiple technically challenging deepwater subsea projects both domestic and international.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Support to system design in large subsea project proposals and equipment contract
- Define procurement specifications for large subsea system building blocks such as Trees, Controls, Wellhead connections, HIPPS, Manifolds, Valves, PLET/PLEMs
- Interface definition and management amongst different work packages, Company locations and towards the client
- Technical System management during the execution phase of projects
- System Integration Testing definition, planning and execution.
- Responsible for system layout and definition from concept definition phase to FEED, detail engineering and execution phases of a subsea project
- Development of subsea system field concepts and optimization in relation to Company strategy
- Provide assistance on field optimization and design reviews
- Work in multiple assignments and be flexible to travel internationally for short assignments
- Be familiar with Company HSE policies and procedures
- Share knowledge & best practice across the company
- All other duties as assigned
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree in a technical discipline and a minimum of 10 years of experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Strong interpersonal and communications skills, both verbal and written.
- Broad knowledge of processes, methods and procedures within project and engineering management
- Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manual
- Ability to write routine reports and correspondence and to speak effectively before groups of customers or employees of organization
- Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations
- Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals and to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, and the general public.
- Ability to read, analyze, and interpret common scientific and technical journals, financial reports, and legal documents and respond to common inquiries or complaints from customers, regulatory agencies, or members of the business community
- Ability to write speeches and articles for publication that conform to prescribed style and format and to effectively present information to top management, public groups, and/or customers.
- Ability to work with mathematical concepts (high skills) such as probability and statistical inference, and fundamentals of plane and solid geometry and trigonometry and apply concepts such as fractions, percentages, ratios, and proportions to practical situations.
- Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists and interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.
- Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions and interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.
- Experience in the design and/or selection of one or more of the following subsea equipment: standard subsea equipment such as isolation valves, connectors, chokes, pipe fitting, large bore valves;
- Experience in the design and/or selection of one or more of the following subsea structures: Manifolds, Templates, PLET/ PLEM; Subsea Distribution and Connection Systems; Subsea Control Systems; Subsea Trees: vertical and conventional; Well intervention systems and ROV Intervention Systems