Job Description
Job Overview:
The Associate Subsea Engineer will be supporting FEED/EPCIC projects with engineering activities related to shallow water and deepwater subsea pipeline lateral buckling analysis, pipeline walking analysis, fracture mechanics and 3D structural analysis. This position is within the Advance Analysis team and requires someone who is analytically minded with strong engineering skills to perform numerically intensive calculations. Learns the content and application of relevant industry codes, standards, guidelines, design methods and analysis.
Responsibilities
Key Tasks and Responsibilities:
- Perform detailed design engineering, analysis, and calculations on basic engineering tasks related to Subsea Engineering tasks for installation of offshore facilities including jackets and topsides
- Apply knowledge and skills to complete routine assignments under close supervision and mentoring
- Prepare clear and accurate detailed design calculations and analyses including design reports and procedures
- Organize own work to meet deadlines set by others
- Tender engineering support with emphasis on document review, assist with the preparation of subcontractor documents, bid evaluation and vendor selection
- Assist senior engineers with preparation of technical reports, design calculations, engineering analysis and interface with third parties including subcontractors and verification bodies
- Required to attend and prepare for project progress meetings and departmental meetings
- Gain an understanding of the project scope of work, specifications, schedule and all inter-discipline requirements
- Prepare sketches of detail design to guide Designers and check drawings
- Keep the Area Lead/Lead Engineer apprised of all activities, progress and concerns
- Develop an awareness of costs related to own work
- Develop basic understanding of McDermott's business and customers it serves
- Develop basic knowledge of McDermott's business units and interactions including engineering, fabrication and marine functions
- Develop advanced skills in use of standard productivity tools such as Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
- Understand and apply standards and procedures
- Capture project lessons learned into McDermott's Lessons Learned system
- Participate in internal, customer or third-party technical audits on engineering deliverables and vendor documents
Reports to:
Project: Lead Engineer
Functional: Supervising Department Manager
Liaise With: Engineers, Design Supervisor, and Designers of their own discipline
Qualifications
Essential Qualifications and Education:
- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Structural or Marine Engineering
- Exposure to finite element analysis packages (Abaqus, ANSYS)
- Good knowledge in programing skills (Python, VBA or C++) is an advantage
- Excellent verbal and written communication
- Attention to detail and the ability to think outside the box for innovative solutions
About Us
Our ingenuity fuels daily life. Together, we've forged some of the most trusted partnerships across the energy value chain to make what was once just an idea a reality: laying subsea infrastructure thousands of feet below sea level, installing platforms hundreds of miles from shore, using our expertise to design and build offshore wind infrastructure, and reshaping the onshore landscape to deliver the energy products the world needs safely and sustainably.
For more than 100 years, we've been making the impossible possible. Today, we're driving the energy transition with more than 30,000 of the brightest minds across 54 countries.
