Piping Engineering Manager

Kent; Bogotá ciudad; Presencial; COP 180.000.000 - 280.000.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Kent is seeking a Piping Manager in Colombia to support ongoing piping projects. You will lead design reviews, supervise execution, and ensure technical quality and compliance with industry standards across multiple facilities.

Ideal candidates have 15+ years of piping experience, strong leadership, and fluency in Spanish and English. Relocation is not specified; the role emphasizes rigorous engineering oversight and efficient project delivery.

Formación

• Professional in Mechanical Engineering with PM specialization desirable.
• Experience in piping design for surface facilities and pipelines.
• Expert-level handling of ASME, ASTM, API, NFPA standards.
• 15+ years overall with at least 5 years in leadership of piping projects.
• Fluent Spanish and English communication.

Responsabilidades

• Review and approve piping designs and documents to meet client quality.
• Plan and supervise project teams to meet PDT and man-hour targets.
• Estimate man hours for proposals and project deliverables.
• Ensure QA/QC and compliance with the Quality Plan across projects.
• Record man-hours in the company system.

Conocimientos

Piping design

Project management

Leadership

ASME/API standards

Educación

Mechanical Engineering degree

Project Management specialization

Herramientas

Caesar II

AutoPIPE

Autopipe

AutoCAD

Descripción del empleo

About you:

Join us. Unleash your energy within.

If you have world-class ambitions to reach the stars while keeping your feet on the ground, we’re the team for you. We've created a new breed of company – future-focused with reimagined ambition across all disciplines within the energy sector.

We love people who know their own potential and are not afraid to use it. We know that together, we’re far more than the sum of our parts. So, we celebrate people who want to grow and develop as we work together on some of the largest projects on the energy world stage.

We are committed to our diverse and inclusive community – a place where we can all be ourselves, thrive and develop. From day one, we offer a range of family-friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements, and employee networks to support staff from different backgrounds.

As an Equal Opportunities Employer, we value applications from all backgrounds, cultures, and abilities.

We’re a disability-friendly employer and can make adjustments to support you to perform at your best during the recruitment process.

Our purpose and beliefs:

As Kent, we’re tackling the greatest challenge of our time - to bring our world the energy it needs in the most responsible way ever imagined.

It’s the energy of every member of our team driven by our beliefs that is making this happen. Whatever our skill, our language, or our culture. These beliefs define and direct us every day to be the very best - for ourselves, our clients, our key stakeholders, the communities we operate in and the planet:

We PLAY BIG

We thrive on EMOTIONAL AGILITY

We are FANATICAL ABOUT PERFORMANCE

We are built on INFINITE THINKING

Read more about the Purpose, Beliefs and Guiding Principles that drive us:

Our vision for Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging:

We recognise that diversity & inclusion are catalysts for success. We’re heightening awareness on the benefits of people diversity, diversity of experiences and diversity of our perspectives. Creating a culture of inclusivity where all employees feel a sense of belonging.

Our combined energy is fueled by different nationalities, across 6 continents and 24 countries. Our commitment is to celebrate character – no matter what ethnic background, gender, age, religion, identity, or disability.

About the job:

Kent is looking for a Piping Manager, to support ongoing workshare projects.

Skills and Responsibilities:

Responsibilities:

• Design Review and Approval: Review and approve designs (documents and plans) and incorporate comments, in accordance with specific requests from the Engineering and Projects area, verifying that the software and standards have been implemented and applied, in order to comply with the client's requirements and corresponding quality.
• Planning and Execution: Advise and supervise the personnel under his/her charge in the planning and execution of each project, defining the scope, the applicable standards and assigning priorities to the work group to comply with the Detailed Work Plan (PDT) and the project's man hours.
• Preparation of Offers: Estimate the man hours and deliverables required, through knowledge and experience of projects, to obtain a proposal that meets the client's requirements.
• Technical Quality Management in Deliverables: Ensure that the tools and methods established by the Company are used for the quality control of deliverables, according to the specialty, using the standards and control schemes that have been defined, in order to ensure that the Quality and Compliance parameters defined in the Quality Plan of each project and in the Promise are met in all projects of Value.
• Registration and Control of Man-Hours: Ensure that the personnel in charge record the consumption of Man-Hours in the Registration and Control System assigned by the company.
• Performance Evaluation: Carry out the annual performance evaluation of each of the employees, according to the performance indicators defined by each specialty and the organizational competencies of the company, in order to establish personnel classifications that allow identifying shortcomings and reinforcing the technical level of the people in charge.
• In addition to the responsibilities listed herein, the employee may be required to perform other ad-hoc tasks as needed or directed by the supervisor or management. These tasks will be within the reasonable scope of the employee's skills, capabilities, and role within the organization. The intent of this provision is to allow for flexibility and adaptability in meeting the dynamic needs of the organization, ensuring that operational requirements can be met efficiently. All such tasks will be assigned considering the employee's current workload and with respect to their professional development.

Your knowledge/skills, education, and experience:

Knowledge/ Qualification/ Training/ Certification:

• Professional in Mechanical Engineering
• Specialization in Project Management, Piping Design or related to the Oil and Gas sector desirable.
• Knowledge and experience in pipeline design, especially in surface facilities, pumping/compression stations, oil and gas pipelines, natural gas treatment processes.
• Broad technical criteria for the analysis of comments and their generation.
• Experience in reviewing and approving drawings and technical documents of the Piping discipline.
• Expert-level handling of technical standards applicable to pipe design (ASME, ASTM, API, NFPA).
• Knowledge of technical characteristics of materials, pipe components.
• Interpretation and analysis of results of simulation programs for flexibility analysis in Pipeline (Caesar II, Autopipe or similar).
• Knowledge of calculation software and design of the pipe discipline.
• Administrative and managerial skills for handling and interacting with work teams focused on achieving the objectives of each project.
• Experience in preparation of proposals and estimation of man hours and resources, for the different stages of engineering projects (conceptual, basic, detailed and FEED) in the specialty of piping, considering the terms of reference, execution schedule, resources required and information necessary for the execution of the designs.
• Experience in planning, budgeting, controlling and monitoring of engineering activities of projects, in the reading of MS Project reports or equivalent software.
• Know the interrelation of the activities and deliverables carried out by Pipeline with those of the other disciplines.
• Experience in technical evaluations of offers from suppliers of piping materials and components and/or services related to the discipline.
• Knowledge and interpretation of specific and interdisciplinary plans that are generated in the different projects.
• Basic knowledge of AutoCAD
• Handling office tools
• Knowledge of HSEQ regulations and procedures associated with the role.

Communication:

• Excellent command of the Spanish – English (mandatory) language in both oral and written communication and skills.

Behavior/ Core Competencies:

• Experience of 15.1 years or more, of wh which you must have at least 5 years in leadership, management or coordination of projects in piping.
• Experience in the design and execution in piping for engineering projects in surface facilities, pumping/compression stations, oil and gas pipelines, natural gas treatment processes.
• Experience in preparing technical bids.
• Experience in leadership, management of work teams and human and technical resources.
• Experience in planning, budgeting, control and monitoring of engineering activities of projects.
• Experience and participation in the different phases of engineering, construction, assembly, commissioning, consulting and/or project auditing for the Oil and Gas sector.

HSSEQ:

The Employee shall observe the Health, Safety, Sustainability, Environment and Quality rules of the Company; it’s clients and the governing authorities of the host country.

Details about the role:

Location: Colombia

Relocation required: No

Travel required: When required

Contract type: Undefined

Experience level: Specific experience from 15.1 or more years of experience.