About the Role
The Sustainable Technology Solutions (STS) group is seeking a Lead Design Engineer I - Mechanical for a 5-year PMC contract with a client. This role focuses on supporting the client in achieving optimal capacity in its oilfields and enhancing its facilities efficiently and economically. The contract aims to provide a range of services including project management, coordination, planning, design, engineering, construction management, contracting, procurement, and project controls for the construction of new oil field facilities, the upgrading of existing facilities, and technology transfer.
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Primary Objectives
- Ensure mechanical equipment design integrity while leading the mechanical equipment engineering group on specific projects.
- Provide specialist rotating equipment input to conceptual studies, FEEDs, and detailed design for oil & gas developments.
Responsibilities
- Ensure that design is fully compliant with Project Specifications as well as client, international, and local standards.
- Prepare specifications for and evaluate rotating equipment packages.
- Perform engineering design as required.
- Carry out conceptual design, specification of rotating and packaged equipment, and review of EPC’s detailed designs, technical bid evaluations, and vendor documentation.
- Allocate work to team members, ensuring personnel work within their competencies and with appropriate supervision.
- Maintain quality assurance by adhering to the provisions and guidelines of the Quality Assurance system.
- Prioritize personal safety and safe working practices, understanding and following OH&S procedures.
- Ensure that conceptual and detailed design work aligns with the complexity of construction tasks, achieving a balance between design and implementation costs.
- Gather feedback from supervisors and/or superintendents to address constructability issues in design and ensure work packs contain sufficient detail without unnecessary content.
- Conduct site investigations and prepare reports.
Mandatory Requirements
- Engineering Degree in a relevant discipline.
- 15 years of total post-graduation experience.
- 10 years of mechanical design experience in the Oil & Gas environment.
- 5 years in the stated designation.
- A minimum of 3 years' experience in automation software.
Essential Skills/Experience
- Hands-on experience with large gas turbine-driven compressors, pumps, and generator packages is mandatory; experience with other packaged equipment is desirable.
- Experience in developing layouts for new facilities.
- Experience in the specification, evaluation, and documentation of rotating equipment packages in a PMC environment is advantageous.
- Ability to work according to broad technical guidelines and with minimal supervision.
- Capable of managing multiple assignments under tight deadlines and prioritizing work to meet them.
Decarbonization – Energy Transition – Sustainability
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