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Senior Piping Designer

Senior Piping Designer

CompanyValdes Architecture and Engineering
LocationMerrillville, IN, USA
Salary$70000 – $150000
TypeFull-Time
DegreesBachelor’s, Associate’s
Experience LevelSenior, 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