Senior Instrumentation Designer

Senior Instrumentation Designer – McDermott International, Ltd Job Overview The Senior Instrumentation Designer completes a variety of instrumentation design assignments and can work with limited supervision. They act as an informal resource for colleagues with less experience and provide solutions to both typical and infrequent problems based on existing precedents, directly influencing the quality of the team's work. Responsibilities Prepare and develop arrangement and detail conceptual, FEED, studies, and detail design drawings of high technical quality and professional consistent presentation ensuring clarity and ease of construction. Develop 3D models and ensure clash-free integration with other disciplines. Ensure design deliverables are completed and issued per project specifications, MDR, and procedures, and within agreed schedules. Apply knowledge and/or skills to complete a variety of day-to-day activities within own area; continue developing skills for efficient repetitive tasks. Prioritize and organize own work to meet agreed-upon deadlines. Become familiar with the Contract Scope of Work, specifications, schedule, and all inter‑discipline requirements; identify concerns early and take appropriate initiatives. Identify changes to scope and promptly raise change notifications in the Change Management system, including providing supporting documentation and estimates. Provide similar support for Variation Orders. Interface with all disciplines to develop clash‑free designs and to obtain input for discipline designs and drawings. Liaise with other discipline support groups to ensure clearly defined interfaces, deliverables, and schedules are met. Document substantive communications, forward copies to Discipline Lead Designer and Supervisor. Assist Discipline Lead Designer in preparing estimates for proposals and scope changes (execution statements, work schedules, man‑hour requirements). Raise technical queries to obtain missing information, clarify work scope, and maintain preferred McDermott procedures, specifications, standards, practices, and operational requirements. Participate in finalizing deliverables lists and philosophies to ensure compliance with specifications and functional integrity. Attend project kickoff and review meetings, vendor/supplier meetings, engineering and design meetings, and offshore site surveys as required. Research customer standards and procedures to prepare project‑specific design procedures and standards for submission to the customer for approval. Set up and maintain the Discipline Master design drawing and document files, including final archiving. Prepare discipline deliverables such as: 3D model Detailed design drawings As‑built drawings Review drawings issued by other disciplines and incorporate required data into discipline drawings. Review vendor drawings and documents and incorporate required vendor data into discipline drawings and documents. Assist in providing necessary design inputs to other disciplines to enable their deliverables. Identify items for which insufficient data is available to complete the drawing or model (HOLDS), and list these on the drawing and the standard HOLDS list form. Notify the Discipline Lead Designer when there are updates to the HOLDS list. Generate IDC design documentation for the project. Perform design verification through single discipline checks (SDC) and/or inter‑discipline checks (IDC), providing comments to the Lead Designer. Review all project IDC design documentation for detailed technical interfaces. Maintain single discipline and inter‑discipline check drawings and filing. Prepare, issue, and update material and weight data take‑offs. Assist fabrication as required in resolving construction difficulties relating to design problems, clashes, etc. Monitor progress and maintain the deliverables register on an ongoing basis. Ensure compliance with the Project Execution Plan and the timely completion and archiving of drawings and documents. Keep the Lead Designer apprised of all activities, progress, and concerns, including manpower and budgetary updates. Assist in providing inputs for actual, planning, and forecasting progress reports, including associated productivity. Report errors and suggest a resolution. Participate in design reviews and audits. Capture lessons learned and enter them into MDR’s Lessons Learned system. Guide less experienced designers on MDR and discipline procedures, standards, worksheets, design calculations, software, technical queries, etc. Guide trainee designers. Assist in maintaining departmental technical guidelines and standards. Further develop an understanding of MDR’s business, including processes and procedures. Prepare/review instrument design deliverables such as: 3D model instrument scopes Layout drawings Instrument hook‑up/installation details Wiring/loop diagrams Panel and console drawings Instrument drawing lists Logic diagrams Shutdown hierarchy drawings Schematics and block diagrams Material schedules Participate in clash resolution meetings as required. Travel to the fabrication yard or construction site to assist in mechanical completion, hook‑up, and/or commissioning as required. Qualifications High school graduate with a diploma in Civil, Electrical, or Mechanical Design or Drafting in a related discipline, or equivalent experience. Six years minimum with a major contractor or consultant, of which two or more years in predominantly oil and gas projects. Detailed knowledge of associated industry detailing standards. Detailed knowledge of 2D and/or 3D (AutoCAD and/or MicroStation) drafting systems. Working experience in E3D and/or S3D. Knowledge of QA systems and good communication skills is an advantage. Detailed knowledge of AutoCAD and/or AutoLisp programming. 3D model creation, menu, and/or macro compilation skills. Seniority Level Mid‑Senior level Employment Type Full‑time Job Function Other Industries Engineering Services and Oil and Gas 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. 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