Senior Mechanical Engineer at Michael Stevens Consulting

Job Objective
To provide Mechanical Engineering support to Project Teams and Tendering ensuring cost effective solutions that spans across:

• Performing discipline engineering scope
• Overall delivery of project and tender technical deliverables
• Leadership of technical issue resolution
• Productive utilization and absorption of engineering and design resources
• Prioritization and planning of engineering activities and deliverables
• Sharing Technical expertise with team members.
• Supports field technical issues and support team leads in technical communications with clients/vendors when required.
• Interface with other disciplines, user departments and Clients.
• Estimation / engineering work related to tendering processes.
• Supervise and groom Junior Mechanical Engineer to develop his technical knowledge, skills and competencies in order to produce potential talent for future business needs

Key Responsibilities

• Research and analyze data such as client design proposals, specifications, and manuals to determine the feasibility of design or application.
• Work with Proposal/Commercial team as well as project teams to develop a project’s scope of work, estimates, and/or schedules.
• Develop major equipment and material selection, and construction specifications.
• Ensure that all assigned activities and operations comply with applicable codes, regulations and laws.
• Provide support during the fabrication and installation phases to ensure engineering documents are followed.
• Coordinate activities with other project department involved in fabrication, operation, application, and installation or repair of various materials, products or systems.
• Provides technical direction, support and information to other engineers, designers and drafters.
• Design of pressure vessel, Shell & tube heat exchanger, Reactor, Process Column, Storage Tank
• Preparation and checking of all project deliverables including Specifications, Data Sheets, MR and TBE
• Vendor Document Review of Pressure vessel, Shell & tube heat exchanger, Reactor, Process Column, Storage Tank, Air Cooled exchanger, other static equipment
• Carry out technical evaluation of vendor offers, manage Vendor Technical discussion as well as Vendor Kick of Meeting
• Performs interdisciplinary checks as well as corresponding with vendors.
• Review ITT (Invitation to Tender) documents and technical correspondence submitted in the proposals stage, issue inquiry requisitions, review techno -commercial vendor offers.
• Prepare equipment, material and man -hour estimates.
• Review contract requirements for project execution, identify technical requirements, scope of work; review Project specifications, Process Data Sheets (PDS), Piping Instrumentation Diagrams (P & IDs), Plot plans,
• Equipment Layout Drawings, and other relevant documents.
• Establish contract review criteria, identify and resolve discrepancies and divergences from original proposal through the instigation of technical queries to projects /client.
• Review Project Design Basis, Prepare equipment Design Basis, Mechanical data sheets.
• Prepare Inquiry Requisitions, Purchase Requisitions; participate in the technical evaluation of vendor offers, preparation of Technical Bid Evaluations (TBE), review vendor drawings and documents.
• Supervise and groom Junior Mechanical Engineer to develop his technical knowledge, skills and competencies in order to produce potential talent for future business needs

Requirements
Educational Qualification required:

• A Bachelor's Degree (BSc) in Mechanical Engineering.

Professional Qualification required:

• Preferably a COREN Registered Engineer.

Experience required:

• 7+ years experience in Mechanical engineering design (onshore & offshore) within the Oil and Gas EPC/Petrochemical
• Design Engineering (or related) environment.

Functional Competencies:

• Knowledge and experience in working with API and ASME codes and standards.
• Desirable to have familiarity with specifications and standards of international Clients like Shell DEP, Total GS, etc
• Shall be conversant with PV-Elite / Autopipe Vessel / Compress
• Working knowledge on AutoCAD, Finite Element Analysis (FEA)is desirable.

Key Skills and Abilities:

• Consistently demonstrates professional skills in structuring assigned activities, creativity, teamwork, communications, operational efficiencies, handling of a client’s changing needs, decision making, and analysing and solving problems
• Advanced analytical, problem solving, accuracy, attention to details, and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to establish deadlines for the team, manage priorities, and effectively achieve the goals in fast paced environment is critical.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills in English is essential. Ability to foster communication within diverse cultural environments.
• Ability to plan, communicate/present concepts and reports on complex topics with the ability to persuade and influence others as needed.
• Ability to give and receive constructive feedback and to respond appropriately.
• Ability to work within time and budget constraints
• Presents self in a professional manner appropriate to the role
• Produces work of presentable quality
• Must be experienced in FEED, Detailed Engineering Design (DED), Procurement, Construction and Installation projects.
• Must be able to work independently with no supervision on feed to detail engineering projects.