IT Pillar Specialist

Job Overview:

The Senior IT Pillar Specialist uses best practices and knowledge of internal or external issues to improve the IT Pillar discipline within McDermott. They will act as a resource for colleagues with less experience and share their conceptual and practical expertise related to the IT Pillar discipline. They solve complex problems and use their discipline-specific knowledge to improve their products or services. The Senior IT Pillar Specialist impacts a range of customer, operational, project, or service activities with the IT Pillar team and other related teams and ensures that they are working within the appropriate guidelines and policies.

Key Tasks and Responsibilities:

• Aid with technical requirements gathering and client meetings and implementing new SmartPlant Electrical environments to suit scope of project.
• Project setup as per the requirements of the company and client.
• Create an Oracle database instance if not exists already
• Maintain the SmartPlant Electrical database for projects including backups, reports, imports, data integrity, etc. including the customization of reports as per project requirements
• Trouble-shoot and solve SmartPlant Electrical problems to ensure project integrity and user support
• Develop detailed project work instructions for users
• SmartPlant Electrical Administration including creating Plant Breakdown Structure, access rights, and naming conventions, symbology, filters, reports, system maintenance, etc.
• Project deliverable customization
  • Create custom Excel reports.
  • Publish Project reports for revision control.
  • Create custom symbols.
  • Import data from Excel
• Project support
  • Help user to resolve issues and handholding in case of new users to create the following:
  • Create Electrical entities.
  • Associate entities.
  • Create entity tabular view.
  • Use Profile and Lookups.
  • Generate Excel reports.
  • Generate SLD.
  • Generate cable schedule.
  • New cable types.
  • Cable Sizing.
• Project Administrative support
  • Co-ordinate with Hexagon support as required to fix issues.
  • Schedule and store SPEL Backups.
  • Perform SPEL Project upgrades as per requirement
  • Setup and support of SPEL Interfaces, including Import Manager using ODBC connection. 
  • Project Replication expertise – Develop replication plan & Replication level as per the project requirements
  • Use of Import Manager to manage replication
  • Produce setup documentation detailing how SmartPlant Electrical satisfies the project scope and requirements.
  • Create auditing requirements and checking for quality assurance of the design effort
  • Implementation of Automation tools
  • Maintain and verify daily backup routines
  • Help develop automation enhancements

Essential Qualifications and Education:

• Degree in engineering / Diploma in Engineering.
• 6-10 years’ in SP Electrical Administration covering SPEL Administration and user support. 
• Strong understanding of SP Electrical and other intelligent 2D Electrical applications, engineering design, drafting applications. 
• Multiple project execution exposure essential.
• Managed & administered medium to large size projects (with 10 to 20+ users) executed using the SP Electrical Application. 
• Good working experience of SP Electrical, intelligent 2D applications, Engineering design and drafting.  
• Experience of SP Instrumentation preferred.
• Good working knowledge of 2D CAD Applications
• Exposure & knowledge of Integration of data from SP Electrical to other SP Foundation and other SmartPlant Applications and workflow
• Good exposure to detailed engineering, engineering best practices
• Should be able to understand requirements from discipline and be able to support the team
• Knowledge SQL queries will be considered as an asset.
• Knowledge of AVEVA Electrical, ETAP, Comos and other Electrical tools will be considered as an asset
• Has the ability to effectively conduct training sessions to new users
• Knowledge in excel VBA will be added advantage. 

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