Designer III Piping

About the Role

This position involves leading larger teams of designers and coordinating day-to-day workflows for advanced piping design and equipment layouts in petrochemical, refining, pharmaceutical, confectionary/food processing, or power plant construction projects.

Responsibilities

• Lead and coordinate teams of designers in daily workflows.
• Complete advanced and complex piping design and equipment layouts using 2D CAD, 3D E3D software, or other 3D design tools in accordance with industry practices.
• Review new proposals/RFQs and prepare estimates for small capital projects.
• Mark up and coordinate vendor document reviews for major and minor equipment, including managing logistics of the review process.
• Apply advanced understanding of standard instrument design, installation requirements, and technology differences to navigate design and installation challenges without supervision.
• Demonstrate advanced field constructability knowledge and fabrication methods to serve as a qualified checker for small to medium complexity jobs.
• Create and review detailed project schedules, ensuring coordination with piping workflow expectations, durations, and interdisciplinary interactions.
• Facilitate model reviews, including collecting and managing comments.
• Track project hours, progress reporting, and conduct earned value analysis to forecast project completion dates accurately.
• Identify scope of work from initial exposure and create project change notices for deviations.
• Manage global and domestic workshare initiatives.
• Work with laser scanning technology and integrate laser scans into 3D models.

Requirements

• High school diploma or associate degree with drafting courses; bachelor’s degree preferred with design experience.
• 20+ years of experience in design requirements for petrochemical, refining, pharmaceutical, confectionary/food processing, or power plant construction projects.
• Serve as a qualified expert capable of making key technical decisions on low to medium complexity projects.
• Advanced ability to communicate information and ideas clearly, both verbally and in writing.
• Advanced knowledge of FEL/FEED project execution staged gate processes, including differences between early FEL/FEED and detailed design execution.
• Detailed understanding of precursor/successor activities, deliverables, project milestones, and expected progress for key deliverables at each phase.
• Advanced understanding of overall project execution and multi-discipline workflows, particularly interdisciplinary coordination.
• Ability to recognize project changes and apply basic change management procedures, conveying changes to project leads.

Preferred Qualifications

• Associate or bachelor’s degree.
• Certificate in design/drafting.

Physical Demands

• Communicate in person, via telephone, and email.
• Use arm/hand steadiness, manual dexterity, finger dexterity, multi-limb coordination, oral expression, and comprehension.
• May be required to lift, carry, and move objects safely.

Work Environment

• Primarily in a general office environment with a fast-paced work setting.
• Occasional work in industrial locations with moderate to high noise levels.
• Job sites may include light to heavy equipment vehicles, materials, communication tools, and people standing, walking, sitting, signaling, or talking.
• Noise levels may vary and include bells, whistles, and alarms.