Senior Mechanical Engineer

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Houston, TX, USA
In-Office
Senior level
Energy
The Role
Specify, select, analyze, and provide technical oversight for rotating equipment including compressors, pumps, and generators. Support Pre-FEED and FEED studies, coordinate equipment bid reviews, resolve vendor and client technical issues, assess equipment interface risks, develop mitigation plans, and provide project engineering support while complying with safety, environmental, and company standards.
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Job Overview: 

Mechanical Engineer will be responsible for specification, selection, analysis, and technical oversight of rotating equipment for the project.

Responsibilities

Key Tasks and Responsibilities:

  • Engineering of Rotating Equipment (Compressor, pump, generator, etc)
  • Carry out specific project tasks and responsibilities as required
  • Conduct all activities in a safe and efficient manner in accordance with McDermott's policies and procedures, while ensuring the welfare of personnel and the protection of assets and the environment at all times
  • Participate in Pre-FEED and FEED studies as per Project requirements
  • Provide technical clarifications to any comments raised by other departments, clients, classification society, etc. throughout the project engineering phase
  • Coordinate technical bid review of equipment with the other engineering disciplines involved
  • Liaise with equipment vendors for any pending technical issues to be solved during project execution to ensure that package is technically compliant with engineering expectations in coordination with the Client
  • Highlight risk associated with the critical equipment interfaces and develop/implement mitigation plans accordingly
  • Provide day-to-day support to a wide number of internal clients
Qualifications

Essential Qualifications and Education:

  • B.S. in Mechanical Engineering or ABET Approved Curriculum
  • Minimum 10 years of experience with rotating equipment with detailed knowledge of equipment codes/standards
  • Must be proficient in Microsoft office

Preferred Qualifications:

  • EPC experience is preferred
  • PE License is preferred
  • Experience as an Area, Team or Project Lead
  • Customer focused, dedicated to meeting the expectations and requirements of internal and external customers
  • Relates well to all levels and kinds of people; able to build appropriate rapport; listens well
  • Self-starter; results driven; anticipates/initiates and implements solutions
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills

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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 of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering or an ABET-approved curriculum
  • At least 10 years of experience with rotating equipment
  • Detailed knowledge of equipment codes and standards
  • Proficiency in Microsoft Office
  • EPC experience
  • Professional Engineer license
  • Experience as an area, team, or project lead
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills

McDermott International Compensation & Benefits Highlights

The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about McDermott International and has not been reviewed or approved by McDermott International.

  • Leave & Time Off Breadth — U.S. materials cite a minimum of 23 PTO days and 14 paid holidays, indicating a broad leave offering. Paid time off and holidays are positioned as a comparative strength within the package.
  • Parental & Family Support — Company materials indicate paid parental leave, including 10 weeks paid maternity and four weeks paid family bonding. These provisions reinforce support for families during key life events.
  • Strong & Reliable Incentives — Field and offshore roles often include overtime, per diems, and project allowances that can materially increase earnings. These extras are a notable component of total compensation in project-driven roles.

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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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