McDermott’s CB&I® Storage Solutions group is the world’s leading and most experienced builder and designer of industrial storage products facilities around the world. Headquartered in the Houston, Texas, CB&I has the global expertise and strategically located operations to provide engineering, procurement, fabrication and construction solutions for our customers’ most complex energy projects.

The Associate Plate Structures Designer is responsible for utilizing 2D and/or 3D CAD skills, CB&I engineering and drafting templates and tools to produce design deliverables including drawings and bills of material for plate structures and associated foundations, structural, and piping associated with CB&I Storage Solutions’ products and services. The role includes working in a fast-paced, production-oriented environment where speed and accuracy is essential. Over the course of time, capabilities for detailing must increase as level of complexity of assignments and expectations for working independently with less supervision. The role directly reports to the Project Engineer and routinely interacts with other Plate Structures Designers, Plate Structures Engineers and Managers.

Responsibilities

• Learn to accurately produce assigned detail drawings for customer approval, fabrication, and/or construction per applicable design code, company standards and customer drawings and specifications.
• Learn to ensure drawing details are safe for field erection and use, with constructability in mind.
• Learn to compare detail drawings and bills of material to as-sold estimate and advise project team of discrepancies.
• Learn to run programs to produce detail drawings and bills of material.
• Effectively use document management system.
• Effectively use project team or department collaboration and productivity apps and tools.

• No experience required.
• High school diploma and at least one year of post-high school education or equivalent experience.
• Associates Degree or 2-year technical degree or equivalent experience preferred.
• Proficient in 2D and/or 3D CAD using platforms such as Microstation and/or AutoCAD.
• Knowledgeable of steel detailing practices and applicable standard industry conventions.
• Possesses skills in geometry, trigonometry, unit conversions, quantity take-offs and basic bills of material.
• Developing verbal and written communication skills.