Senior Pipeline Welding Engineer

Overview

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

Responsibilities

• Provide deliverables from Welding engineering and running of development projects / tasks, provide metallurgical consultative service to operating groups (Fabrication / Marine)
• Develop the Project Welding Execution Plan that defines the full scope of Weld Procedures required, schedule of qualification, quantity of electrodes and materials required for qualification
• Ensure that proper priorities relevant to project schedules are established and review progress
• Responsible for seeking the review and approval of all Project Weld Procedures through direct and indirect communications with the Customer and Certifying Authority
• Work with the Welding Engineering group and Welding department to execute R&D developments projects / goals identified
• Maintain contacts with technical groups to maintain updates on developments in welding technology
• Coordinate with test houses regarding testing of welding qualification coupons
• Co-ordinate the technical selection of electrodes based on their physical, chemical, and corrosion properties as well as considering their weldability and economics
• Conduct regular review of Welding Consumables requirements v / s availability to ensure availability of the same
• Review project schedules, material control reports, and welding consumable estimates to determine changes to the welding execution plan
• Guide Welding Engineers on day-to-day matters and mentor trainee welding engineers to have a better understanding of Codes, Standards, and Project requirements
• Assist in resolving metallurgical, welding, and quality-related problems, by investigating the cause of failures and prescribing fit for purpose
• Assist in the support and development of automatic / mechanized welding systems
• Manage welding school facility for the training and development of the workforce to improve the welding methodology and good workmanship practices
• Review of vendor documents related to Welding Engineering
• Bid stage : review and summarize customer specifications, identify bid qualifications and clarifications, project welder and procedure qualification requirements, and welding consumables requirements
• Identify any special needs that may be needed for execution
• Start getting involved / developing an understanding for ECA based acceptance criteria (for specific applications only)

Liaise with : Operations Manager (Fabrication / Marine), Discipline Managers, PMT, Customers, Operations / Field Engineers, QC / NDT Engineers, Client representatives, Certifying Authorities, Other Technical Agencies (e.g., TWI, DNVGL)

Qualifications

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