Senior Piping Designer
Company | Valdes Architecture and Engineering |
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Location | Merrillville, IN, USA |
Salary | $70000 – $150000 |
Type | Full-Time |
Degrees | Bachelor’s, Associate’s |
Experience Level | Senior, Expert or higher |
Requirements
- 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
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
Preferred Qualifications
- SPED PPD Certified applicants preferred
- 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
- Strong Microsoft Office Suite experience
- Knowledge of multi-discipline project design execution and construction sequence
- 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