Principal Construction Specialist (Fab)
McDermott International, Ltd
Date: 3 hours ago
City: Dubai
Contract type: Full time

Job Description
Job Overview:
The Principal Marine Operations Engineer acts as a resource for colleagues with less experience and shares their conceptual and practical expertise related to the Marine Vessel Operations and Jack-up Barges (JUB). They solve complex problems and use discipline-specific knowledge to improve their services to all HUC projects. They impact a range of customer, operational, project, or service activities with the Hook-Up and Commissioning (HUC) team and other related teams. They work within the appropriate guidelines and policies. The role requires an attention to detail and an ability to clearly communicate with multiple teams to achieve the goal of mobilizing and managing all marine units engaged on HUC projects.
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 Overview:
The Principal Marine Operations Engineer acts as a resource for colleagues with less experience and shares their conceptual and practical expertise related to the Marine Vessel Operations and Jack-up Barges (JUB). They solve complex problems and use discipline-specific knowledge to improve their services to all HUC projects. They impact a range of customer, operational, project, or service activities with the Hook-Up and Commissioning (HUC) team and other related teams. They work within the appropriate guidelines and policies. The role requires an attention to detail and an ability to clearly communicate with multiple teams to achieve the goal of mobilizing and managing all marine units engaged on HUC projects.
Responsibilities
Key Tasks and Responsibilities:
- Responsible for the timely engagement and entry of all marine vessels into operator’s field.
- Reviews technical bids and provides comments to ensure JUBs are fit for purpose.
- Initiates and manages inspections of JUBs and close-out of deficiencies.
- Responsible for the jacking system and cranes’ operational soundness and approvals onboard JUBs.
- Arranges and reviews seabed surveys, vessel set-up drawings, LPA and SSA.
- Reviews lifting plans and mooring analyses.
- Responsible for preparing the risk assessments involving marine vessels.
- Prepares and attends Rig Move Meetings.
- Ensures all vessel crew on chartered assets comply with field operator’s regulations.
- Acts as Point Of Contact with all vessel owners
Essential Qualifications and Education:
- BSc in Mechanical or Marine Engineering, or Naval Architecture.
- 10 years working on offshore vessels, preferably jack-up barges and liftboats.
- Must have exposure with Persian Gulf NOCs.
- Effective communication skills, both verbal and written in English.
- Firm understanding of HSE principles and their application.
- Ability to lead a team of marine coordinators.
- Flexibility to travel and ability to meet deadlines
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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