Design Manager-Piping

Jacobs; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 1,500,000 - 2,500,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working arrangements

Extended leave options

Health and wellbeing initiatives

Job summary

Jacobs is seeking a Design Engineering Manager Piping in Hyderabad to lead piping design for life sciences projects, ensuring regulatory compliance and innovation. The candidate will manage diverse teams, adapt departmental plans, and directly interact with clients to deliver top-quality results.

With a strong focus on collaboration and professional growth, Jacobs offers flexible working arrangements and various health and wellbeing initiatives.

Qualifications

• 18-22 years of experience, particularly in pharmaceutical or biotech facilities.
• Strong experience in piping design for life sciences.
• Sound knowledge of inter-discipline requirements in pharmaceutical industries.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage piping design activities for life sciences projects.
• Ensure design deliverables meet quality, safety, and regulatory standards.
• Act as primary point of contact for piping design matters.

Skills

Piping design

Knowledge of GMP compliance

Leadership

Education

Degree in Chemical/Mechanical Engineering

Job description

Responsibilities

The Design Engineering Manager Piping supports the Discipline Manager in achieving Jacobs’ project and engineering processes and procedures. This dynamic position provides leadership, champions inclusion and diversity, drives global delivery, supports a culture of innovation and applies a disciplined deployment, and ensures management responsibilities including performance appraisals, pay reviews, training and development. The Manager accounts for professional employees and/or supervisors or multi-discipline teams of support employees, managing a large/specific span of control. The Manager is accountable for the performance and results of a team within their area of specialty. The Manager adapts departmental plans and priorities to address resource and operational challenges and problem solving guided by policies, procedures and business plans, receiving guidance from senior management. The Manager provides technical guidance to employees, colleagues and/or customers, drives design consistency across projects by standardizing templates, specifications, and workflows, and promotes continuous improvement in design efficiency, digital tools, and engineering practices.

The Piping Design Manager leads and manages piping design activities for life sciences projects—including pharmaceutical manufacturing facilities, biotechnology plants, sterile/aseptic production suites, R&D laboratories, utility systems, and cleanroom environments. This role ensures that all piping design deliverables meet project requirements, regulatory standards, GMP compliance, and client expectations while driving innovation, efficiency, and quality. The Manager ensures design deliverables meet quality and safety standards, regulatory expectations, and project specifications. The Manager acts as the primary point of contact for piping design matters with clients, PMCs, and EPC/EPCM partners, participates in design workshops, HAZOPs, risk assessments, and constructability studies, and provides technical support during construction, commissioning, and start‑up.

Qualifications

• 18-22 Years of Experience and Degree in full time BE/Btech - Chemical/Mechanical
• Strong experience on design of pharmaceutical / Life Science /Biotech facility / Speciality Chemical in terms of Piping design.
• Sound knowledge of pharmaceutical / Life Science /Biotech facility inter discipline requirements.

Benefits

Working alongside industry leaders, you will have the opportunity to develop your career working on key projects in an environment which encourages collaboration, knowledge sharing and innovation. To support your professional growth, Jacobs offers flexible working arrangements, extended leave options and a host of social, health and wellbeing events and initiatives.