Sr. Piping Designer/Lead

About the Role

The Mechanical/Piping Designer is responsible for supervision and technical direction over a team of designers when functioning as a lead designer. Responsibilities include total delivery of mechanical and piping deliverables and services on time, within performance budget, and meeting quality expectations. This role may also involve performing advanced design work as a technical specialist for complex assignments, requiring extensive progressive experience in mechanical and piping design. Work is performed under minimal supervision.

Responsibilities

• Familiarity with and utilization of department design and drafting standards.
• Recognizing and communicating project scope, specifications, and design criteria upon assignment to a project task team.
• Recognizing and communicating scope and design changes promptly.
• Providing on-site assistance during startup.
• Providing technical guidance to less experienced drafting personnel in the department.
• Coordinating work activities with other staff members and the discipline lead.
• Producing mechanical and piping installation specifications with engineering review and approval.
• Understanding the skills and experience required to perform design functions.
• Proactively leading and coordinating the efforts of a design staff to achieve scope, schedule, and budget objectives.
• Mentoring subordinates.
• Participating in squad checks to ensure coordination between design disciplines.
• Checking calculations made by other designers for accuracy, conformance to codes, specifications, design criteria, and good engineering practice.
• Determining construction quantities and providing construction cost estimates.
• Delegating work to designers in proportion to their technical skills and experience, then following up to ensure efficient progress and quality.
• Consulting with design leaders from other disciplines to ensure efficient progress and quality.
• Participating in the planning of training programs, continuous education opportunities, and professional development of staff.

Requirements

• Associate degree in Engineering Technology or Computer-Aided Drafting is required.
• SPED (Society of Piping Engineers and Designers) Certification is preferred.
• 15+ years of relevant industrial experience in mechanical/piping drafting and design.

Skills

• Knowledge and application of piping materials.
• Design of moderately complex process and utility piping systems, especially those unique to the industry being served.
• Knowledge and application of piping supports and restraints.
• Flexibility analysis of piping systems.
• Knowledge of manual valve sizing, use, and application.
• Knowledge of good design practices for sizing all piping systems.
• Sizing of compressible fluid piping systems.
• Identification of need, application, and specification of steam traps and liquid drainers.
• Identification of need, application, and specification of safety valves and devices to maintain mechanical integrity of piping systems.
• Selecting piping specialty items given the design criteria.
• Drafting of P&IDs and GA’s.
• Design of piping for specific equipment and inline instrumentation arrangements (e.g., pump suctions and discharges, tanks, control valve stations).
• Familiarity with specifications and installation details of construction bulk materials and equipment.
• Ability to create accurate mechanical/piping installation documents from vendor equipment drawings.
• Knowledge and understanding of workflow/information flow between disciplines.
• Understanding of schedule constraints and information requirements for production of mechanical/piping deliverables.
• Ability to accurately estimate completion of assigned tasks.
• Ability to develop mechanical/piping installation specifications with engineering review and approval.
• Ability to develop construction cost estimates, detailed engineering schedules, and man-hour budgets for small projects or areas of larger projects.
• Knowledge and application of company engineering design and CAD drafting standards.
• Ability to lead a small team to deliver on commitments.
• Ability to deliver convincing presentations of services.
• Working knowledge of 2D AutoCAD and MicroStation.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, and Outlook.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong presentation skills.
• Highly developed virtual team skills and cross-divisional relationships.
• Ability to provide interoffice execution support with no supervision.

Physical Requirements

• Ability to sit, stand, or walk for long periods of time.

Benefits

• Paid holidays and personal paid time off.
• Medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance.
• 401(k) and other benefits.

About the Company

Hargrove Engineers & Constructors works to create an environment founded on trust, personal integrity, and a “team mentality” so that each person understands the value of their contributions both on a project and company-wide level. As a 100% Teammate-owned company, we know that each person contributes to the success of our company by pairing expertise and passion to meet and exceed the needs of the clients we serve globally.