Senior Electrical Engineer

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Houston, TX, USA
In-Office
Senior level
Energy
The Role
Leads conceptual, FEED, study, and detailed electrical engineering design for energy projects. Prepares calculations, specifications, load lists, diagrams, layouts, and coordination studies. Leads electrical project execution, vendor and subcontract packages, supplier reviews, FAT, site support, commissioning, and startup. Coordinates with multidisciplinary teams, clients, construction personnel, vendors, and subcontractors while supervising electrical engineers and managing cost, schedule, budget, and technical changes.
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We are currently exploring potential candidates for an upcoming role at McDermott. While this position is not yet open for active recruitment, we want to connect with talented individuals who may be interested in future projects with us. If you are passionate about building energy's future and want to be considered when this role becomes available, we encourage you to submit your details.  

Job Overview:

The Senior Electrical Engineer uses best practices and knowledge of internal or external issues to improve the electrical discipline within McDermott. They will act as a resource for colleagues with less experience and share their conceptual and practical expertise related to the electrical discipline. The Senior Electrical Engineer solves complex problems and uses their discipline-specific knowledge to improve their products or services. The Senior Electrical Engineer impacts a range of customers, operational, project, or service activities with the electrical team and other related teams and ensures that they are working within the appropriate guidelines and policies.  

Responsibilities

Key Tasks and Responsibilities:

  • Perform conceptual, FEED, Studies, and detailed analyses and design as per design basis, project specifications, design codes, and standards
  • Apply knowledge and skills to a wide range of standard and nonstandard situations
  • Prepare clear and accurate detailed design calculations and analyses including design reports and procedures  
  • Manage own time to meet agreed deadlines and budgets, and develop plans for short-term work activities in own area
  • Clearly communicate and explain complex issues and work to establish understanding
  • Apply thorough working knowledge to prepare and oversee the development of key project deliverables, including (but not limited to) the following:  
    • Specifications and Datasheets  
    • Electrical Load List  
    • One-line diagrams  
    • Motor control schematics  
    • Electrical building and equipment layouts  
    • Bills of Material  
    • Cable sizing calculations  
    • Conceptual studies and calculations  
    • Relay Coordination  
    • Cost and planning studies  
  • Lead Project Development and Coordination, including (but not limited to) the following:  
    • Maintain and promote a focus on McDermott’s end-product throughout engineering, fabrication, or construction  
    • Function as electrical engineering project lead or electrical task lead  
    • Become familiar with the project scope of work, basis of design, specifications, and schedule  
    • Report to and coordinate with the electrical engineering lead, project engineering manager, and electrical department manager  
    • Supervise and coordinate with electrical engineers and designers  
    • Maintain close coordination with other discipline engineers and with the Client’s engineer  
    • Carefully evaluate, communicate, and manage change with full awareness of project impact  
    • Assume responsibility for cost, schedule, quantity and budget control  
  • Lead the development and support of vendor packages, including (but not limited to) the following:  
    • Create, issue, and manage requisition packages for Substations, Transformers, and Electrical materials  
    • Create, issue, and manage subcontract packages for Heat Tracing, Cathodic Protection, and Electrical Installation  
    • Perform and coordinate the review of supplier documents for electrical and non-electrical packages  
    • Coordinate and supervise the Inspection and Factory Acceptance Testing (FAT) of electrical equipment, motors, and associated skids  
  • Lead Site Support, including (but not limited to) the following:  
    • Lead off-site and/or on-site technical support to Construction personnel  
    • Manage all site issues and coordinate with office personnel to resolve issues as needed  
    • Provide detailed technical support and supervision for Site Acceptance Testing (SAT) of electrical equipment  
    • Provide detailed technical assistance for pre-commissioning, energization, commissioning, and start-up, as required by the project 

Reports to: Project: Lead Engineer   
Functional: Supervising Engineer or Engineering Manager   
Liaise with: All Engineering disciplines, Fabrication Group, Safety Dept, Document Control, Procurement Group, Subcontractors and Vendors, and Customers 
Supervises:  Electrical Engineers  

Qualifications

Essential Qualifications and Education:

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering or another technical degree  
  • Prefer PE certificate of registration  
  • Accredited engineering degree may be required by specific regions  
  • 8-15 years of experience of detailed electrical engineering experience  
  • Strong working knowledge of many design techniques, and analysis methods, and detailed knowledge of the content and application of standards, codes, and guidelines, including NEC, NFPA, IEEE, and ANSI, and the latest scientific and engineering methods  
  • Technical knowledge of the detailed design engineering process  
  • Project coordination and execution skills  
  • Intermediate experience with Smart Plant Electrical (SPEL), ETAP, and MS Office Suite including Excel and Word  

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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.

Skills Required

  • Bachelor's degree in engineering or another technical degree
  • Accredited engineering degree, where required by the applicable region
  • 8–15 years of detailed electrical engineering experience
  • Strong working knowledge of electrical design techniques, analysis methods, standards, codes, and guidelines, including NEC, NFPA, IEEE, and ANSI
  • Technical knowledge of detailed design engineering processes
  • Project coordination and execution skills
  • Intermediate experience with SmartPlant Electrical (SPEL)
  • Intermediate experience with ETAP
  • Intermediate experience with Microsoft Office, including Excel and Word
  • Professional Engineer (PE) certificate of registration
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The Company
HQ: Houston, TX
26,626 Employees

What We Do

McDermott is a premier, fully-integrated provider of engineering and construction solutions to the energy industry. Our customers trust our technology-driven approach to design and build infrastructure solutions to responsibly transport and transform oil and gas into the products the world needs today. From concept to commissioning, our expertise and comprehensive solutions deliver certainty, innovation and added value to energy projects around the world. It is called the “One McDermott Way.” Operating in over 54 countries, McDermott’s locally-focused and globally-integrated resources include approximately 40,000 employees, a diversified fleet of specialty marine construction vessels and fabrication facilities around the world. To learn more, visit www.mcdermott.com.

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