Senior Piping Designer

Responsibilities

• Extensive knowledge of the Piping and Plant layout discipline with capabilities and the initiative to perform the following task while supervising/mentoring junior staff
• Provide accurate detail piping design per project requirement in accordance with scope, budget, and schedule as assigned by project lead
• Provide on-site field assistance as required per project assignment
• Plan, facilitate, or conduct 3D model design reviews
• Perform difficult and complex design calculations
• Provide 2D or 3D design documents as required per project “list of deliverables”
• Check design documents for quality and accuracy
• Provide information for inter-discipline coordination.
• Participate in project coordination meetings
• Make recommendations to improve department work flow process
• Develop and /or improve department standards, including templates and design guides.
• Supervise, coordinate, manage, design work for multiple projects of small to medium sizes in parallel
• Provide direction and day-to-day oversight of assigned subordinates
• Provide man-hour engineering estimates
• Mentor understudies within piping department
• Responsible and accountable for the performance of assigned designers / drafters
• Generate “Engineering Change Notice “ before the start of all out of scope work
• Develop piping construction scope of work document
• Ownership of project, including quality, budget and schedule
• Review of vendor drawings
• All other duties as assigned 

Qualifications

• Associates or Bachelor’s Degree in engineering technology or equivalent experience
• 8+ years of experience working in the design field with BSET degree or 12+ years of experience without degree
• Must possess exceptional interpersonal and organizational skills
• Must be able to work in the US without sponsorship now or in the future

Technical Competencies

• 8+ years of technical experience in piping design
• The ability to proactively resolve technical design problems
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• The ability to communicate detailed information to both client and project team 
• Ability to articulate complex ideas to co-workers and management
• Extensive knowledge of  2D and 3D AutoCAD software.
• Ability to use design and/or CAD software to perform design tasks

Competencies and Skill Sets:

• Strong  Microsoft Office experience
• Knowledge of  multi-discipline project design execution and construction sequence
• Strong piping design knowledge of major equipment and structures
• Creative thinking in providing new solutions to design problems 
• Ability to provide nozzle and platform orientations per project requirements
• Knowledge of piping design requirements for in-line instrumentation
• Understand stress analysis and its application
• Ability to generate a construction scope of work document