Job Description
The Principal Survey Specialist plays a pivotal role in supervising, leading and delivering survey scopes for projects. This includes providing support for engineering, procurement and subcontracts required for the installation, as well as management of discrete packages and interface management of third parties.
Key Responsibilities:
* Promote policies that ensure a safe working environment and adhere to quality standards.
* Liaise with project team Health, Safety, Environment, Quality and Engineering representatives to achieve common goals.
* Report to Project Installation Manager of scope progress, contingencies, scope slip/change, areas of focus and potential areas of concern in accordance with schedule and convergence planning set gates and impact on project risk profile and potential for optimization or degeneration.
* Team leader and Subcontract Management of survey scope for all offshore projects executed out of the Perth office, including procurement and development of procedures and related survey engineering.
* Global support to Survey Specialists and the Global Survey Manager for projects executed from McDermott's other global offices.
* Interfacing with lead designers, package leads and marine operations engineers to facilitate smooth project execution.
Additional Responsibilities:
1. Develop survey plans in collaboration with clients under project contract requirements.
2. Lead and develop concept and detailed installation procedures for offshore operations including review of marine spreads and installation aids required for the scope.
3. Review and approval of all survey field reports and document deliverables as part of the Survey Subcontract Management.
4. Attend regular internal meetings and external/third party meetings as required.
5. Review and promote development of installation engineering improvements in close liaison with Operations and Field Engineers, to allow optimization of methods and technical details of the work scope.
6. Ensure quality assurance of all engineering deliverables is carried out in accordance with QA policies and procedures and that relevant personnel are appointed to conduct the QA.
7. Produce detailed CTR's for estimation of manhours and resources required for any changes arising in due course of the project.
8. Ensure that the amount of resources required to perform the work are identified and communicated to the Project Installation Manager and Marine Operations Manager.
9. Lead and provide technical support during fabrication, mobilisation and installation activities.
10. Lead and participate in installation Constructabilities, HAZID's and Risk Assessments.
11. Other assigned tasks.