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Principal Instrumentation Designer
Principal Instrumentation Designer-March 2024
Mexico City
Mar 29, 2026
About Principal Instrumentation Designer

Company Overview:

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Our ingenuity fuels daily life. Together, we’ve forged some of the most trusted partnerships across the energy value chain to make what was once just an idea a reality: laying subsea infrastructure thousands of feet below sea level, installing offshore platforms hundreds of miles from shore, and using our expertise to design and build offshore wind infrastructure.

For more than 100 years, we've been making the impossible possible. Today, we're driving the energy transition with more than 30,000 of the brightest minds across 54 countries.

Here, what you do matters.

Job Overview:

Responsible for complex instrumentation control systems design and development of an assigned scope of work on a McDermott project. Work includes (but not limited to) FEED studies, cost and planning studies, MTO’s, building layouts, specification development, wiring design in AVEVA instrumentation and/or CAD, location plan layouts, AVEVA 3D modeling support, manpower requirements, oversight/coordination of Mopex offices and the review and wiring for interface to vendor packages. Also, apply in-depth skills and broad knowledge of the industry to address complex problems and nonstandard situations for design/engineering, fabrication and construction.

Key Tasks and Responsibilities:

Prepare the development of key project deliverables, including (but not limited to) the following:

Junction box/panel wiring diagrams/strip reports(SPI)

Populate instrument index in SPI for design

Block diagrams

Installation details

Analyzer systems (wiring and tubing connections and tie-ins)

Instrument / fire gas location plans

Telecom location plans

MTO’s associated Bills of Material

Instrument loop sheets (SPI)

Building layouts

Cable schedules/lists

Cable sizing

3D Instrument modeling

Participate in project reviews, including (but not limited to) the following:

PID Reviews (as required)

Model Reviews

Independent Design Reviews (IDR)

Development and support of vendor packages, including (but not limited to) the following:

Create and issue required MTO for vendor package interfaces

Create all design drawings to allow interface to vendor packages with remainder of facility including electrical

Perform design review of supplier documents for instrument and non-instrument packages

Provide support for the Inspection and Factory Acceptance Testing (FAT) of mechanical packages

Site Support, including (but not limited to) the following:

Provide technical support to Construction personnel for IC design related inquiries as needed

Project development and coordination activities (when acting as the Lead Designer), including (but not limited to) the following:

Maintain and promote a focus on McDermott’s end-product throughout engineering, fabrication or construction

Take responsibility for vendor package review and associated interfaces

Become fully familiar with the project contract, scope of work, basis of design, specifications, schedule and all inter-discipline requirements; including identifying concerns as early as practicable and taking appropriate initiatives to address the issues

Coordinate closely with piping and IC engineering with in-line dimensional data

Report to and coordinate with engineering lead, as well as with instrument design manager

Supervise and coordinate all activities associated with instrument designers

Carefully evaluate, communicate and manage change with full awareness of project impact

Assist the IC lead engineer with cost, schedule, quantity, progress, budget control and quality of project deliverables

Support model reviews

Essential Qualifications and Education:

Typically 15+ years of detailed instrument design experience, including engineering experience on offshore projects English Level B1; B2 desirable

Function as an instrument project design lead or instrument task lead if required

Detailed knowledge of design techniques, sequence of deliverables, and schedules

Working knowledge of the content and application of standards, codes and guidelines, including ISA, NEC, NFPA, IEEE, ANSI and API

Proven project coordination and execution skills in delivery of completed project design deliverables

In-depth technical knowledge of the detailed design process involving large cap EPC Projects

Experience with the utilization of multiple office project execution (MOPEX).

Proven experience with Smart Plant Instrumentation (SPI), AutoCad, MS Office Suite including Excel and Word

Preferred Qualifications and Education:

Prefer AS degree

Prefer prior design lead experience on EPC projects for petrochemical, oil gas

Prefer experience at site during construction and commissioning

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McDermott is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, genetic information, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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