Field Engineer
McDermott International, Ltd
Date: 2 weeks ago
City: Dubai
Contract type: Full time

Job Overview
JOB DESCRIPTION
Field Engineer applies their conceptual knowledge of field experience and with a moderate level of guidance and direction from colleagues and leadership. He / She is responsible for solving a range of straightforward field / yard related issues and analyzing possible solutions using the company’s standard procedures and processes. Field Engineer understands key business drivers and applies the acquired knowledge to solve problems through analysis of possible solutions using technical experience, judgment, and precedents.
Responsibilities
Key Tasks and Responsibilities
Essential Qualifications and Education
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.
JOB DESCRIPTION
Field Engineer applies their conceptual knowledge of field experience and with a moderate level of guidance and direction from colleagues and leadership. He / She is responsible for solving a range of straightforward field / yard related issues and analyzing possible solutions using the company’s standard procedures and processes. Field Engineer understands key business drivers and applies the acquired knowledge to solve problems through analysis of possible solutions using technical experience, judgment, and precedents.
Responsibilities
Key Tasks and Responsibilities
- Ensure that all work is carried out safely in compliance with Quality, Health, Safety, & Environment policies and procedures.
- Readiness to travel offshore for job execution, including willingness to be at onshore site as required.
- Recommend changes in the technical details and drawings where these may result in safe operations and clarity on information in the installation procedures.
- Develop the vessel layout and barge loadout plans for the transportation of materials, equipment and structures to offshore to facilitate safe and timely installation,
- Actively participate in project Constructability sessions, Readiness reviews, Hazard Identification studies or Job Safety Analysis as applicable and communicate to implement the recommendations.
- Review and retain project drawings and documents, report the discrepancies, errors and omissions concerning the information required to perform the work.
- Ensure the work is within the capabilities of the proposed equipment.
- Prepare offshore installation procedures as per the Company Procedures and Processes. As a minimum, the procedure(s) will outline the following:
- Methods, techniques, and practices to be used to perform work
- The sequences to be used to perform work
- Installation aids, temporary works, and consumables required to perform the work
- Prepare material list covering the construction materials and project consumables and liaise with the project coordinator for the procurement.
- Issue “Loadout Lists” applicable to the work based on the recommended practice.
- Coordinate with Marine, E&M, Welding, Quality, HSES, Survey & ROV, Diving Departments and Subcontractors as per offshore scope execution requirements to ensure that necessary equipment and personnel are available and ready to be deployed for the project.
- Witness/inspect pre-rigging, loadouts, and sea fastening, and acknowledge the receipt of fabricated structures, line pipes, and other materials to be installed offshore. Developing checklists and inspecting loadouts as per Company Procedures.
- Coordinate with the Production Engineers and verify loadouts of fabricated items for the project.
- Coordinate with the logistics team for inputs on materials, structures, equipment loaded out for cargo movements from one location to another either by ship / barge / trucks, etc.
- Liaise with the customer representative and various subcontractor representatives at the offshore site and with the Operations Engineer.
- Monitor the progress of the work and site conditions and advise the Operations Engineer of any development that may result in changes to the project and schedule and/or execution sequence.
- Conduct work scope presentations to offshore key personnel explaining the planning and execution of work including contractual and technical aspects of the work. Issuing field sketches, data sheets, and checklists in the field as required for information purposes to the offshore personnel.
- Participate in the resolution of any technical problems arising during offshore installation and assist in the formulation of corrective action requirements.
- Prepare Post Job completion Reports as per Company Procedures.
- Prepare/collate as-built documentation and records as required by contract requirements and approved project scope of work.
Essential Qualifications and Education
- Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering.
- 3-5 years of offshore installation experience.
- Knowledge in Auto CAD or similar tools.
- Adequate knowledge of design and offshore project execution.
- Basic knowledge in Microsoft tools like Word, Excel, PowerPoint etc. and any 3D software experience.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
- Willingness to travel to different job sites and work in various environmental conditions as required.
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.
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