Junior Piping Designer

Vista Projects Limited; Calgary; On-site; CAD 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking engineering firm where you can contribute to innovative industrial projects that shape the future. As a Junior Piping Designer, you will play a crucial role in drafting and preparing design documents, ensuring compliance with accuracy and time constraints. Collaborate with a multi-disciplinary team and work on challenging projects that require your technical skills and creativity. This role offers a stimulating environment with opportunities for professional growth, competitive compensation, and a supportive team culture. If you're excited about making a real impact in the energy sector, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Benefits

Flexible Work Schedules

Half-Day Fridays

Free Parking

Company-Sponsored Social Events

Performance-Linked Variable Pay Program

Qualifications

• Technical school certification or degree required.
• Proficiency in AutoCAD and major design software is essential.

Responsibilities

• Assist in preparing design documents and drawings.
• Draft moderate-to-complex 2D drawings and prepare as-built drawings.

Skills

AutoCAD

Communication Skills

Organizational Skills

Team Collaboration

Attention to Detail

Education

Technical School Certification

Degree in Engineering

Tools

CADWorx

SmartPlant

AutoPLANT

AVEVA

PDMS

Job description

What Vista Does

Vista Projects is an integrated industrial engineering firm that helps clients navigate the digital transformation of their projects and operations. Our proven project execution process is based on a “single source of truth” model that eliminates the potential for inefficient engineering designs, cost overruns and project completion delays.

Why We Do It

We believe the world needs industrial projects and that intelligent engineering data can increase the likelihood of innovative solutions getting to market. Over the years, our multi-discipline teams have conceptualized and designed some of the most challenging and successful industrial processing projects in the North American energy sector. Vista has established itself as a trusted industrial engineering partner for all types of projects, from conceptual studies and pilots to large-scale commercial expansions.

Where We Work

The benefits of our approach apply to new asset developments and brownfield optimization projects across several industrial markets. This includes biofuels and produced water treatment to natural gas and petrochemical processing. While we are headquartered in Calgary and maintain a satellite office in Houston.

What You Would Do in This Role

The Junior Piping Designer assists in the preparation of design documents and drawings during the execution of a project specific to their discipline specialty (Piping, Civil, Structural & Architectural (CSA), Electrical, Instrumentation & Controls (EIC)). Duties include:

• Drafting moderate-to-complex 2D drawings, charts, schedules, etc.
• Preparing as-built drawings based on field red-line markups
• Developing designs and layouts requiring theoretical and practical design knowledge in a specialized field
• Assuring that work complies with the accuracy level and time constraints required for the assignment
• Potentially directing work for a small number of Junior Designer/Drafters, providing guidance and instruction on work methods, and checking finished work
• Drafting 2D drawings including PFDs, P&IDs, DPDTs, MSDs, plot plans, key plans, site plans, etc.
• Drafting intelligent P&IDs using PDMS, SmartPlant or other such software
• Conforming to client and company standards when carrying out intelligent P&ID (or project specific equivalent) data entry tasks such as item tagging for equipment, piping, manual valves and instrumentation (in addition to other object properties)
• Performing other duties as requested

Requirements

• Technical school certification / degree or equivalent experience
• Proficiency in AutoCAD
• Ability to work within a multi-disciplinary team including Process, Mechanical, Civil, Structural & Architectural, Electrical, Instrumentation & Controls and Piping
• Excellent communication skills (interpersonal and written) and proven ability to collaborate with team members in a multi-discipline environment
• Strong organizational skills, technical competence and attention to detail
• Ability to meet safety requirements to attend site visits

Preferred

• Two years of experience in facilities engineering and design in the energy industry
• Technical school certification / degree
• Advanced computer skills and experience in major design software such as CADWorx, SmartPlant, AutoPLANT, AVEVA and PDMS

Why People Like Working with Us

Working with Vista is a chance to contribute to the typeof challenging municipal and industrial projects that the world requires. If that doesn’t excite you, this role likely won’t be a fit.

Challenging projects require focus and we enable our people to do their best work with modernized project systems that are based on our leading use of intelligent data-centric execution architecture. Our staff and clients like that it gives them real-time access to validated data shared across all project departments. This fosters project design and business decisions based on a single, authoritative source of truth and provides increased transparency and collaboration with team members and clients, leading to improved engineering quality and a product we can all take pride in.

What We Offer

An opportunity with Vista is not just a job; it is a chance to tackle challenging projects with colleagues who are among the most recognized and accomplished in their disciplines.

Vista offers all employees

• A stimulating, fast-paced and challenging work environment where you will contribute to the interesting municipal and industrial engineering projects
• A robust and consistent recruitment process that ensures your colleagues are likeminded and comparably capable
• An opportunity to be a part of an entrepreneurial, technically skilled team which has established leadership in innovative engineering solutions
• A strong value-based philosophy that provides an informal, close-knit team environment, where you and your family feel like a part of our organization, and not just an employee number
• Competitive compensation and benefits, including a performance-linked variable pay program
• Company-sponsored social events and team sports
• Flexible work schedules, half-day Fridays and free parking
• An organization that values and encourages diversity

How to Apply

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