Senior Mechanical Designer at Worley

FIXED TERM CONTRACT 

Key Accountabilities

• Assists business development activities by maintaining an up to date personal profile and resume. Builds positive working relationships with external parties such as the customer, suppliers, and contractors.
• Supports proposals by advising on the project execution strategy, estimating costs, writing proposal content, and presenting to customers.
• May be called upon to lead all or part of the technical proposal.
• Supports the business by communicating team resource loading and skill requirements to a direct supervisor or the Discipline Design Chief. Ensures the project work is covered for vacation and unplanned absences. Mentors/trains and supports the delivery of training. Assists in the employee performance review process. Facilitates coverage of activities when people leave the team. Encourages knowledge of and compliance with requirements and processes. Works to resolve inter-discipline, vendor, and customer issues. Ensures discipline technical work and team activities meet all health, safety, environmental, and security requirements.
• Ensures team member adherence to generally accepted engineering and design practices, regulatory requirements, and customer specifications. Supports the standardization of equipment specifications, drawings, and document templates. Contributes to the understanding of technical knowledge, legal requirements, and customer specifications whenever viable and lawful. Uses local/global standards to support technical excellence. Supports checking, peer reviews, and incorporation of comments and findings.
• May participate in project execution strategy and planning. Knows the project and discipline scope/cost/time requirements, assists the team to meet expectations, and coordinates with other disciplines to ensure project success. Implements innovative solutions, technology advances, and methods to effectively deal with working out of sequence. Supports management of project change and progressing for the discipline and works with the Project Management Team to take corrective actions regarding any issues, staffing requirements, scope changes, progressing, or other events that could affect project completion and/or profitability. Plans discipline quality, monitors quality activities, drives and participates in squad checking, recommends improvements, and takes action where required.
• Gathers data from multiple sources and prepares analyses, calculations, etc. Assists with recommendations and helps create final documentation. Determines technical issues, defines alternate solutions, establishes pros/cons for multiple solutions, and makes recommendations to support official project documents such as technical queries, technical
• deviations, etc. Creates final documentation incorporating all relevant information and pursues internal authorization. May review similar documentation to assist others and reviews/authorizes work done by direct reports.
• May incorporate information from multiple sources into equipment/material specifications, data sheets, testing requirements, and material requisitions. May participate in bid clarifications, bid evaluations, inter-discipline vendor information review and approval, and other certification activities. Reviews similar documentation to assist others and reviews/authorizes work done by direct reports.
• Seeks input from knowledgeable sources, participates in constructability, operability, and maintainability reviews, and incorporates requirements into design. May work with site personnel to resolve issues. May create plans or documents that supports construction, testing, commissioning, operations, maintenance, or decommissioning. May provide or lead on-site support for construction, commissioning, or turn over.

Qualification Years Experience

• Responsible for performing difficult and complex work assignments involving independent judgment to determine a course of action consistent with established functional and organization's policies and goals. Ability to lead and/or train lesser seasoned individuals.
• Awarded a 2 or 3 year technical diploma with discipline specific training or an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience. Trained in leadership and project execution. Will be actively licensed with a local governing body where required by law.

Qualifications, Accreditation

• Training (Desirable) Training in risk management or quality.

Job Specific Knowledge 

Experience (Essential)

• Experience working in project leadership. Specialized expertise in one or more areas of regulations, codes, manufacturing standards, and industry standard practices.
• Decision Making Empowered to make responsible decisions. Difficult, complex or unusual decisions are usually referred to more senior discipline members.
• Works independently with scope for planning and organization of work methods on assigned projects. Receives assignments in terms of specific objectives and priorities. Work is reviewed for accuracy, completeness and accomplishment of objectives. May receive supervised / self-training in more advanced discipline work practices / applications.
• Supervision Authority Typically up to 6 direct reports consisting of less senior designers within the same discipline.
• Communication Strong ability to inform and persuade on complex matters through preparation and delivery of proposals, presentations and reports, as well as collaboration with stakeholders and management.
• Competent in Microsoft Outlook, Word, Excel, and Teams. Can navigate intranet pages, conduct searches, and retrieve information. Can organize information from many sources and retain as per the prescribed format and policies. Will be fully proficient in specialty design tools, analytics and modeling, and cross-discipline data centric methods.
• Systems & Tools (Desirable) Competent in Microsoft Access and PowerPoint. Able to touch type.
• HSE Capability Use the modified text from the sample Postion Description (Senior Engineer).
• Interpersonal: Builds appropriate, constructive, and effective business relationships throughout the organization; uses diplomacy and tact; is approachable; communicates clearly, accurately, and consistently both verbally and in written matters. Employs the principles of active listening and encourages feedback from others.
• Teamwork: Enjoys working in a small high calibre team with high visibility to senior stakeholders. Able to work and liaise with multiple teams and stakeholders, able to prioritise workloads and help other team members to achieve team goals.
• People Skills Action Orientation: Achieves results set by self and others, meets timelines, pushes to achieve stretch goals, and demonstrates enthusiasm, persistence and tenacity. Breaks down work into executable tasks. Acts accountable for work produced and ensures it is "right the first time.”
• Intellectual Capacity: Deals with new concepts and complexity comfortably. Examines problems carefully and thoroughly and understands their interdependencies. Can pull information and ideas from many sources and see the importance of many factors.