Lead Piping and Plant Layout Engineer (100%)

Climeworks; Glattbrugg; Vor Ort; CHF 120.000 - 170.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Climeworks in Opfikon, Zürich, Switzerland, is seeking a Lead Piping and Plant Layout Engineer to lead the Piping Engineering & Plant Layout Team across global projects. You will define owner requirements, validate designs for operability and safety, and manage interfaces with process, civil, electrical, mechanical and O&M disciplines.

The role emphasizes regulator-aligned design, cost optimization, and constructability under local boundary conditions, including winterization planning for cold

Qualifikationen

• Lead the Piping Engineering & Plant Layout Team delivering fit-for-purpose designs globally.
• Define owner requirements and communicate them to contractors.
• Validate design assumptions for operability, safety, and regulatory expectations.
• Interface management with process, civil, electrical, mechanical and O&M disciplines.

Aufgaben

• Develop piping and plant layouts for local and regional execution.
• Review contractor submissions and ensure adherence to schedule, quality, safety and operability.
• Identify cost-saving opportunities without compromising quality or safety.
• Coordinate cross-discipline interfaces for optimized designs.
• Support permitting and stakeholder needs for energy/industrial facilities.
• Document technical decisions and lessons learned for future use.

Kenntnisse

Piping engineering

Plant layout

Contractor management

Interface management

Regulatory awareness

Documentation

Cold-weather design

Jobbeschreibung

• Specifications and design: You develop and lead our Piping Engineering & Plant Layout Team, making sure it delivers on all project requirements in a fit-for-purpose manner Globally. You ensure owner requirements are clearly defined, documented, and communicated to contractors, and validate design assumptions against operability, safety, and applicable regulatory expectations. This includes defining piping and plant layouts suitable for local and regional execution.

• Contractor management: You review and approve contractor submissions, enforce owner requirements, provide technical clarifications, and ensure adherence to schedule, quality, safety, and operability. You set clear expectations for execution methods, field quality controls, and turnover documentation needed for safe operation and maintenance.

• Innovation and cost optimization: You develop innovative engineering solutions to identify cost‑saving opportunities without compromising quality or safety. You focus on design‑to‑construct decisions appropriate for local boundary conditions (e.g., modularization readiness, reduced field welds, optimized layout, local climactic conditions, access and maintenance.

• Interface management: You assure strong integration with process, civil, electrical, mechanical and O&M disciplines to achieve seamless and optimized designs. You proactively manage cross‑discipline interfaces.

• Regulatory and stakeholder awareness: You support alignment of piping and plant layout scope assumptions with local permitting and application needs for energy/industrial facilities and infrastructure interfaces.

• Documentation and knowledge management: You maintain thorough records of technical decisions, design bases, vendor information, and lessons learned for future operational use.

• Cold‑weather and constructability: As our next DAC plant is planned for Alberta, Canada, you incorporate Alberta (or similar) climate conditions into piping and plant layout design and execution planning (freeze protection, winterization, insulation/heat tracing philosophy, drainage/low‑point management, cold start/commissioning constraints). You ensure the design is constructable and able to operate and be maintained through winter conditions, including consideration of temporary works, winter work sequencing, and interface constraints with cold‑weather civil activities.

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