Principal Riser Engineer

Full Time
  • September 30, 2026
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    Responsibilities

    Key Tasks and Responsibilities:

    • Perform conceptual FEED, Studies, and detailed design engineering, analysis, and calculations on more complex and demanding engineering tasks
    • Apply knowledge and skills to complete varied assignments
    • Prepare clear and accurate detailed design calculations and analyses including design reports and procedures
    • Prioritize and organize own work to meet deadlines
    • Focus on completing work within budgets
    • Clearly communicate and explain information in straightforward engineering activities
    • Focused on health and safety policies and procedures
    • When acting as Lead Engineer, in addition:
    • Direct small or medium Mechanical Engineering team as a Lead Engineer
    • Lead the Discipline engineering design of the assigned work area and complete it within the planned schedule and budget, in accordance with standards, MDR, 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 the Project Team, Customer discipline lead, and relevant agencies such as certifying authorities, auditors, third parties, etc.
    • Be 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
    • 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 other departments to obtain input for Discipline designs and drawings
    • Maintain close coordination with other engineering disciplines, Planning, Fabrication, and Project Management Team, as required
    • Document substantive communications (communications that result in significant decisions or assignment
    • of actions) and forward copies to the Discipline Lead Engineer and Discipline Manager
    • Assist in the preparation of estimates for bid proposals, including technical query reviews, execution statements
    • and manhour estimates
    • Raise technical queries to obtain missing information, clarify work scope, and maintain preferred McDermott procedures, specifications, standards, practices, and operational requirements
    • Prepare Discipline engineering design basis, philosophies, and technical specifications, as required
    • Participate in finalizing deliverables lists and deliverables, ensuring compliance with specifications and functional integrity
    • Attend project review meetings, vendor meetings, engineering meetings, and offshore site surveys, as required
    • Provide technical direction and review of Designers producing products related to Instrumentation & Controls Engineering
    • Prepare and review design reports and procedures
    • Assist in providing necessary design inputs to other disciplines to enable them to proceed 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 and reviewing 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 the Discipline Lead Engineer
    • Assist in updating weight report based on receipt of vendor information
    • Check engineering performed by others within the Discipline
    • Review vendor and subcontractor submittals, checking for compliance with project specifications and providing comments as necessary
    • Perform design verification through single-discipline check / inter-discipline check (IDC)
    • Provide technical support to all fabrication queries, including identifying defect/rectification requirements
    • Keep the Lead Engineer 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
    • Participate in internal, Customer, and third-party technical audits on engineering deliverables and vendor documents
    • Assist Lead Engineer with responses to Customer and other agencies (such as certifying authorities, auditors, third parties, etc.) on their review and approval
    • Capture lessons learned and enter into MDR’s Lessons Learned system
    • Act as а resource for colleagues with less experience
    • Guide less experienced engineers on MDR and Discipline procedures, standards, worksheets, design calculations, software, requisitions, technical bid evaluations, technical queries, etc.
    • Be aware of costs related to own work and of the discipline
    • Provides engineering support as required
    • Assists in the preparation of subcontract documents
    • Keep the Lead Engineer apprised of all activities, progress, and concerns
    • Develop an awareness of costs related to own work
    • Develop a basic understanding of MDR’s business and the customers it serves
    • Develop basic knowledge of MDR’s business units and interactions including engineering, fabrication, and marine functions
    • Develop advanced skills in the use of standard productivity tools such as Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
    • Participate in Riser design review and verifications
    • Build riser analysis models and check models created by others for analysis such as under supervision such as:
      • Fatigue Analysis
      • Strength Analysis
      • Installation Analysis
      • Clashing Analysis
    • Platform design calculation and analysis and check engineering performed by others such as:
      • Wall thickness design
      • Component design
      • Configuration design
    • Participate in riser design reviews and approval (lead engineer) of in-house third-party drawings
    • When acting as a Lead engineer, in addition:
      • Act as project-based discipline point of contact in communication and meetings with customer
      • Prepare bids and the project’s discipline budget and execution plan
      • Identify project staffing requirements
      • Plan, organize, and assign tasks to team members
      • Ensure tasks are completed within budget
      • Plan discipline level 4/5 detail schedule
      • Alert the project team of any deviation from the scope/change order
      • Assist the Discipline manager in the Performance Evaluation of team members
      • Procurement team, sub-contracts, vendors, and client

        Supervises: Senior engineers, Engineers, Associate/Trainee riser engineers and designers

        Qualifications

        Essential Qualifications and Education:

        • 15-20 years of experience in oil and gas preferably on offshore facilities
        • Bachelor’s degree in civil / Structural / Mechanical Engineering (Master’s is a preference)
        • Strong working knowledge of many design techniques and analysis methods
        • Has very good working knowledge of riser engineering process and tools
        • Understands the scope and contents of API, DNV, ISO, ASME, and other standards applicable to riser engineering
        • Preferably Registered Engineer in Training (EIT) or member of a professional engineering society

     

     

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