Job Description Job Overview: The Senior Telecom Engineer uses best practices and knowledge of internal or external issues to improve the Telecommunications discipline within McDermott. They will act as a resource for colleagues with less experience and share their conceptual and practical expertise related to the Telecommunications discipline. The Senior Telecom Engineer solves complex problems and uses their discipline-specific knowledge to improve their products or services. The Senior Telecom Engineer impacts a range of customer, operational, project, or service activities with the Telecommunications team and other related teams and ensures that they are working within the appropriate guidelines and policies. Responsibilities Key Tasks and Responsibilities: Perform conceptual, FEED, studies and detailed analyses and design as per design basis, project specifications, design codes, and standards related to Telecom systems Apply knowledge and skills to a wide range of standard and non-standard situations Prepare clear and accurate detailed design calculations and analyses including design reports and procedures Manage own time to meet agreed deadlines and budgets and develop plans for short-term work activities in own area Clearly communicate and explain complex issues and work to establish understanding Be fully familiar with the project scope of work, specifications, schedule, and all inter-discipline requirements; including identifying concerns as early as practicable and taking appropriate initiatives to address the issues Identify changes to scope and promptly raise change notifications, including providing any necessary supporting documentation and estimates, providing similar support for Variation Orders Interface with all disciplines to develop clash free designs Interface with other departments to obtain input for Discipline designs and drawings Maintain close coordination with other engineering disciplines, Planning, Fabrication, and Project Management Team, as required Document substantive communications (communications that result in significant decisions or assignment of actions) and forward copies to the Discipline Lead Engineer and Discipline Manager Assist in the preparation of estimates for bid proposals, including technical query reviews, execution statements and manhour estimates Raise technical queries to obtain missing information, clarify work scope, and to maintain preferred McDermott procedures, specifications, standards, practices, and operational requirements Prepare Discipline engineering design basis, philosophies, and technical specifications, as required Participate in finalizing deliverables lists and deliverables, ensuring compliance with specifications and functional integrity Attend project review meetings, vendor meetings, engineering meetings, and offshore site surveys, as required Provide technical direction and review of Designers producing products related to Telecom Engineering Prepare and review design reports and procedures Assist in providing necessary design inputs to other disciplines to enable them to proceed with their deliverables Assist procurement personnel in procuring Discipline equipment, materials, and services; ensuring that work produced complies with Customer objectives and procedures; procurement assistance includes preparing and reviewing requisitions, evaluating technical quotations and preparing queries, compiling bid tabulations and recommendations, preparing purchase requisitions, and coordinating with Procurement to expedite vendor documents, as directed by Discipline Lead Engineer Assist in updating weight report based on receipt of vendor information Check engineering performed by others within the Discipline Review vendor and subcontractor submittals, checking for compliance with project specifications and providing comments as necessary Perform design verification through single-discipline check/inter-discipline check (IDC) Provide technical support to all fabrication queries, including identifying defects/rectification requirements Keep the Lead Engineer apprised of all activities and concerns, technical, budgetary and manpower related Assist in providing inputs for actual, planning, and forecasting progress reports including associated productivity Check final subcontractor and vendor data manuals to ensure that all requested data has been received and approved Participate in internal, Customer, and third-party technical audits on engineering deliverables and vendor documents Assist Lead Engineer with responses to Customer and other agencies (such as certifying authorities, auditors, third parties, etc.) on their review and approval Capture lessons learned and enter into MDR's Lessons Lear