Piping Drafting/Design 5 - West Monroe, LA

Typical Duties and Responsibilities

• Establishes design criteria for assigned phase of a project requiring the application of basic engineering principles, material properties, and a familiarity with construction, installation, and maintenance procedures.
• Prepares detail and layout drawings and sketches of unusual, complex, or original designs requiring the application of theoretical and practical engineering knowledge.
• Determines material needs and performs necessary calculations using accepted formulas and references.
• Reviews manufacturers' or fabricators' prints for conformance with contract specifications.
• Provides lower-level design/drafting personnel with design sketches for preparation of finished design drawings, general layouts, and guidance in refining technical requirements.
• Supports field assignments and may lead field walkdowns as required.
• Checks work assigned to lower-level design/drafting personnel.
• Regularly interfaces with other departments, clients, vendors, and project engineers in order to support project production.
• Performs other related tasks in support of project engineer, such as writing procedures and specifications, compiling and computing engineering data, estimating, etc.
• May perform certain administrative tasks, such as determining manpower requirements, establishing drawing schedules, assigning tasks to lower-level design/drafting personnel, etc.
• May provide conceptual input to projects during the planning stages.

Language Skills

• Ability to read, analyze and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures or governmental regulations.
• Ability to write reports, business correspondence and procedure manuals.
• Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of clients, managers, designers and engineers.

Mathematical Skills

• Ability to calculate figures and amounts such as discounts, interest, commissions, proportions, percentages, area, circumference, and volume.
• Ability to apply concepts such of basic algebra and geometry.

Physical Demands

• Occasionally may conduct or participate in a field trip to an operating plant or construction site.
• This requires normal hearing, the ability to stand, walk, reach, climb and balance, clear close and distance vision, depth perception and the ability to focus.
• Lifting up to 25 pounds may be required.

Work Environment

• Normal work environment will be a business office with moderate noise.
• Occasionally may visit or be temporarily assigned to work in an operating plant or at a construction site.
• This may require exposure to outdoor weather conditions, loud noise, work near moving mechanical parts, electrical energy, construction equipment, vibration, fumes, chemicals and airborne particles.