Senior Mechanical Engineer - Offshore
Posted date [2026-07-07]
(ID: 47686)
McDermott is a global engineering and construction company delivering advanced solutions for the energy sector. The company focuses on transforming energy resources into essential products through innovative, technology-driven approaches across the full project lifecycle, from concept to decommissioning. With operations in more than 30 countries, McDermott combines a skilled workforce, specialized marine assets, and international fabrication capabilities to support large-scale energy projects. The organization plays a key role in developing efficient, reliable, and sustainable energy infrastructure worldwide.... |
Job Description and Requirements
Senior Mechanical Engineer - OffshoreJob Snapshot
Role: Senior Mechanical Engineer - Offshore
Location: Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Industry: Oil and Energy
Function: Mechanical Engineering
Experience: 8-15 years in oil and gas mechanical engineering, offshore facilities, or detailed design
Job Type: Full-time
Position Overview
Senior Mechanical Engineer - Offshore in Dubai, United Arab Emirates is an Oil and Energy opportunity for an experienced mechanical engineering professional who can deliver FEED, studies, detailed design, technical calculations, procurement support, vendor review, fabrication query resolution, and multidisciplinary coordination for offshore facilities. This role is suited for a quality-focused engineer with strong detailed design experience, practical knowledge of oil and gas project execution, and the ability to guide designers and engineers while supporting safe, compliant, and schedule-conscious engineering delivery.
Job Details
Country: United Arab Emirates
City: Dubai
Industry: Oil and Energy
Function: Mechanical Engineering
Salary: 26000-38000
Estimated salary range based
on similar jobs in the job city; please confirm the final offer with the employer.
Gender: Any
Candidate Nationality: Any
Job Type: Full-time
Role Context
The Senior Mechanical Engineer supports complex offshore oil and gas projects by converting project requirements, design codes, specifications, vendor inputs, and inter-discipline needs into reliable mechanical engineering deliverables. The role helps protect engineering quality, cost control, schedule performance, and design integrity through accurate calculations, technical reviews, procurement support, change identification, and close coordination with fabrication, marine, planning, procurement, safety, document control, subcontractors, vendors, and customer teams. By resolving technical issues and guiding less experienced colleagues, this position strengthens mechanical discipline performance across the project lifecycle.
Key Responsibilities
* Perform conceptual engineering, FEED, studies, detailed analyses, and mechanical design in line with design basis, project specifications, design codes, and standards.
* Apply mechanical engineering knowledge to both standard and nonstandard design situations across offshore oil and gas facilities.
* Prepare accurate design calculations, technical analyses, design reports, procedures, specifications, and supporting engineering documents.
* Manage assigned work priorities to meet agreed deadlines, budgets, and short-term engineering activity plans.
* Focus on completing mechanical engineering deliverables within approved workhour and budget targets.
* Lead or delegate discipline project team activities when required by project needs.
* Communicate complex engineering issues clearly and help stakeholders understand technical decisions, risks, and solutions.
* Review project scope of work, specifications, schedules, and inter-discipline requirements to identify concerns early.
* Take practical initiatives to address design gaps, missing information, interface issues, or execution risks.
* Identify scope changes and promptly raise change notifications with supporting documentation and estimates.
* Support variation orders by preparing technical input, workhour estimates, and related engineering justification.
* Interface with all disciplines to support clash-free design development and smooth project execution.
* Coordinate with other departments to obtain inputs required for mechanical designs, drawings, and project deliverables.
* Maintain close coordination with engineering disciplines, planning, fabrication, marine, procurement, safety, and project management teams.
* Document substantive communications that lead to important decisions, technical actions, or assigned responsibilities.
* Assist with bid proposal estimates, including technical query reviews, execution statements, workhour estimates, and discipline inputs.
* Raise technical queries to clarify work scope, obtain missing data, and align with client procedures, specifications, standards, practices, and operational requirements.
* Prepare mechanical engineering design basis documents, philosophies, and technical specifications when required.
* Participate in finalizing deliverables lists and verify compliance with specifications and functional integrity requirements.
* Attend project review meetings, vendor meetings, engineering coordination meetings, and offshore site surveys when required.
* Provide technical direction and review support to designers producing mechanical engineering deliverables.
* Prepare and review mechanical design reports, procedures, calculations, and technical documents.
* Provide design inputs to other disciplines to help them progress their own deliverables without delay.
* Support procurement teams in purchasing mechanical equipment, materials, and services aligned with customer objectives and procedures.
* Prepare and review requisitions, evaluate technical quotations, prepare technical queries, compile bid tabulations, and support purchase requisitions.
* Coordinate with procurement teams to expedite vendor documents when directed by the Discipline Lead Engineer.
* Assist with weight report updates based on vendor information and equipment data.
* Check engineering work prepared by others within the mechanical discipline.
* Review vendor and subcontractor submittals for compliance with project specifications and provide clear technical comments.
* Perform design verification through single-discipline checks and inter-discipline checks.
* Provide technical support for fabrication queries, including defect assessment, rectification requirements, and practical engineering solutions.
* Keep the Lead Engineer informed of technical, budgetary, schedule, manpower, and project execution concerns.
* Support construction teams from the office or site when required.
* Recommend improvements to mechanical engineering work processes, design quality, and project execution methods.
Ideal Profile
* Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering.
* Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering is preferred.
* 8-15 years of oil and gas experience with major contractors or consultants, mainly in detailed design of offshore facilities.
* Strong mechanical engineering background in FEED, detailed design, technical calculations, specifications, procurement support, and fabrication support.
* Preferably a Registered Professional Engineer, Chartered Engineer, or member of a professional engineering society.
* Strong understanding of offshore facility design requirements, oil and gas project execution, and mechanical discipline interfaces.
* Ability to act as a technical reference and reliable source of discipline information for engineering teams.
* Experience reviewing vendor documents, subcontractor submittals, technical quotations, purchase requisitions, and bid tabulations.
* Practical knowledge of design verification, inter-discipline checks, fabrication queries, weight reports, and technical change management.
* Good English communication skills in writing and speaking, with B2 level minimum preferred.
* Quality-oriented and schedule-conscious approach to engineering delivery.
* Strong coordination skills with willingness to lead selected discipline tasks and support engineers or designers.
* Ability to identify design risks, raise technical queries, and recommend work process improvements.
* Good judgment in balancing safety, technical integrity, cost, schedule, customer requirements, and project standards.
* Comfortable supporting construction requirements from the office or site when necessary.
* Organized working style with the ability to manage deadlines, budgets, priorities, and multiple project interfaces.
Skills Set
* Mechanical engineering
* Offshore facilities design
* Oil and gas detailed design
* FEED engineering
* Conceptual design
* Engineering studies
* Design calculations
* Mechanical analysis
* Design reports
* Engineering procedures
* Design basis documents
* Technical specifications
* Mechanical philosophies
* Vendor document review
* Subcontractor submittal review
* Technical quotation evaluation
* Purchase requisitions
* Procurement support
* Bid proposal support
* Workhour estimates
* Technical queries
* Variation order support
* Change notifications
* Clash-free design coordination
* Inter-discipline checks
* Single-discipline checks
* Fabrication query support
* Defect rectification support
* Weight report updates
* Offshore site surveys
* Construction support
* Project review meetings
* Vendor meetings
* Design verification
* Mechanical deliverables
* Customer coordination
* Discipline leadership
* Schedule control
* Budget awareness
* Quality-focused engineering
Why Join Us
This opportunity gives senior mechanical engineers the chance to support technically demanding offshore oil and energy projects where detailed design quality, procurement accuracy, fabrication support, and multidisciplinary coordination directly affect project success. The role offers exposure to FEED, detailed engineering, vendor interfaces, bid support, offshore site surveys, construction support, and discipline leadership. It is a strong fit for professionals who want to deepen their mechanical engineering impact while contributing to safe, efficient, and well-controlled energy project delivery.
About the Company
McDermott International, Ltd is a global engineering, procurement, construction, installation, and technology company serving the oil and energy sector. The company supports offshore, subsea, onshore, and energy transition projects across the energy value chain. In Dubai, McDermott International, Ltd offers opportunities for mechanical engineering professionals who want to contribute to safe, sustainable, and technically advanced project execution.
Gender: Any
Candidate Nationality: Any
Job Type: Full-time
Role Context
The Senior Mechanical Engineer supports complex offshore oil and gas projects by converting project requirements, design codes, specifications, vendor inputs, and inter-discipline needs into reliable mechanical engineering deliverables. The role helps protect engineering quality, cost control, schedule performance, and design integrity through accurate calculations, technical reviews, procurement support, change identification, and close coordination with fabrication, marine, planning, procurement, safety, document control, subcontractors, vendors, and customer teams. By resolving technical issues and guiding less experienced colleagues, this position strengthens mechanical discipline performance across the project lifecycle.
Key Responsibilities
* Perform conceptual engineering, FEED, studies, detailed analyses, and mechanical design in line with design basis, project specifications, design codes, and standards.
* Apply mechanical engineering knowledge to both standard and nonstandard design situations across offshore oil and gas facilities.
* Prepare accurate design calculations, technical analyses, design reports, procedures, specifications, and supporting engineering documents.
* Manage assigned work priorities to meet agreed deadlines, budgets, and short-term engineering activity plans.
* Focus on completing mechanical engineering deliverables within approved workhour and budget targets.
* Lead or delegate discipline project team activities when required by project needs.
* Communicate complex engineering issues clearly and help stakeholders understand technical decisions, risks, and solutions.
* Review project scope of work, specifications, schedules, and inter-discipline requirements to identify concerns early.
* Take practical initiatives to address design gaps, missing information, interface issues, or execution risks.
* Identify scope changes and promptly raise change notifications with supporting documentation and estimates.
* Support variation orders by preparing technical input, workhour estimates, and related engineering justification.
* Interface with all disciplines to support clash-free design development and smooth project execution.
* Coordinate with other departments to obtain inputs required for mechanical designs, drawings, and project deliverables.
* Maintain close coordination with engineering disciplines, planning, fabrication, marine, procurement, safety, and project management teams.
* Document substantive communications that lead to important decisions, technical actions, or assigned responsibilities.
* Assist with bid proposal estimates, including technical query reviews, execution statements, workhour estimates, and discipline inputs.
* Raise technical queries to clarify work scope, obtain missing data, and align with client procedures, specifications, standards, practices, and operational requirements.
* Prepare mechanical engineering design basis documents, philosophies, and technical specifications when required.
* Participate in finalizing deliverables lists and verify compliance with specifications and functional integrity requirements.
* Attend project review meetings, vendor meetings, engineering coordination meetings, and offshore site surveys when required.
* Provide technical direction and review support to designers producing mechanical engineering deliverables.
* Prepare and review mechanical design reports, procedures, calculations, and technical documents.
* Provide design inputs to other disciplines to help them progress their own deliverables without delay.
* Support procurement teams in purchasing mechanical equipment, materials, and services aligned with customer objectives and procedures.
* Prepare and review requisitions, evaluate technical quotations, prepare technical queries, compile bid tabulations, and support purchase requisitions.
* Coordinate with procurement teams to expedite vendor documents when directed by the Discipline Lead Engineer.
* Assist with weight report updates based on vendor information and equipment data.
* Check engineering work prepared by others within the mechanical discipline.
* Review vendor and subcontractor submittals for compliance with project specifications and provide clear technical comments.
* Perform design verification through single-discipline checks and inter-discipline checks.
* Provide technical support for fabrication queries, including defect assessment, rectification requirements, and practical engineering solutions.
* Keep the Lead Engineer informed of technical, budgetary, schedule, manpower, and project execution concerns.
* Support construction teams from the office or site when required.
* Recommend improvements to mechanical engineering work processes, design quality, and project execution methods.
Ideal Profile
* Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering.
* Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering is preferred.
* 8-15 years of oil and gas experience with major contractors or consultants, mainly in detailed design of offshore facilities.
* Strong mechanical engineering background in FEED, detailed design, technical calculations, specifications, procurement support, and fabrication support.
* Preferably a Registered Professional Engineer, Chartered Engineer, or member of a professional engineering society.
* Strong understanding of offshore facility design requirements, oil and gas project execution, and mechanical discipline interfaces.
* Ability to act as a technical reference and reliable source of discipline information for engineering teams.
* Experience reviewing vendor documents, subcontractor submittals, technical quotations, purchase requisitions, and bid tabulations.
* Practical knowledge of design verification, inter-discipline checks, fabrication queries, weight reports, and technical change management.
* Good English communication skills in writing and speaking, with B2 level minimum preferred.
* Quality-oriented and schedule-conscious approach to engineering delivery.
* Strong coordination skills with willingness to lead selected discipline tasks and support engineers or designers.
* Ability to identify design risks, raise technical queries, and recommend work process improvements.
* Good judgment in balancing safety, technical integrity, cost, schedule, customer requirements, and project standards.
* Comfortable supporting construction requirements from the office or site when necessary.
* Organized working style with the ability to manage deadlines, budgets, priorities, and multiple project interfaces.
Skills Set
* Mechanical engineering
* Offshore facilities design
* Oil and gas detailed design
* FEED engineering
* Conceptual design
* Engineering studies
* Design calculations
* Mechanical analysis
* Design reports
* Engineering procedures
* Design basis documents
* Technical specifications
* Mechanical philosophies
* Vendor document review
* Subcontractor submittal review
* Technical quotation evaluation
* Purchase requisitions
* Procurement support
* Bid proposal support
* Workhour estimates
* Technical queries
* Variation order support
* Change notifications
* Clash-free design coordination
* Inter-discipline checks
* Single-discipline checks
* Fabrication query support
* Defect rectification support
* Weight report updates
* Offshore site surveys
* Construction support
* Project review meetings
* Vendor meetings
* Design verification
* Mechanical deliverables
* Customer coordination
* Discipline leadership
* Schedule control
* Budget awareness
* Quality-focused engineering
Why Join Us
This opportunity gives senior mechanical engineers the chance to support technically demanding offshore oil and energy projects where detailed design quality, procurement accuracy, fabrication support, and multidisciplinary coordination directly affect project success. The role offers exposure to FEED, detailed engineering, vendor interfaces, bid support, offshore site surveys, construction support, and discipline leadership. It is a strong fit for professionals who want to deepen their mechanical engineering impact while contributing to safe, efficient, and well-controlled energy project delivery.
About the Company
McDermott International, Ltd is a global engineering, procurement, construction, installation, and technology company serving the oil and energy sector. The company supports offshore, subsea, onshore, and energy transition projects across the energy value chain. In Dubai, McDermott International, Ltd offers opportunities for mechanical engineering professionals who want to contribute to safe, sustainable, and technically advanced project execution.
