Piping Design

hargroveepc; Angleton (TX); On-site; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Hargrove Engineers & Constructors is seeking a Mechanical/Piping Designer in Texas to lead a design team and deliver complex mechanical and piping deliverables. The role requires extensive experience in mechanical and piping drafting, with on-site leadership and the ability to guide less experienced drafters.

The ideal candidate will have an Associate degree in Engineering Technology or CAD, and SPED certification is preferred.

Qualifications

• Associate degree in Engineering Technology or CAD, preferred.
• SPED (Society of Piping Engineers and Designers) Certification preferred.
• 15+ years of relevant industrial mechanical/piping drafting and design experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of designers and provide technical direction.
• Deliver mechanical and piping deliverables on time and within budget.
• Provide technical guidance to drafting personnel.
• Coordinate work with other staff and discipline lead.
• Produce installation specifications with engineering review.
• Mentor subordinates and plan staff development.
• Review calculations for accuracy and conformance to codes.

Skills

Lead design supervision

Mechanical design

Piping design

2D AutoCAD

MicroStation

MS Word

MS Excel

Project coordination

Mentoring

Education

Associate degree in Engineering Technology or CAD

SPED Certification preferred

Tools

AutoCAD

MicroStation

Office suite

Job description

What You'll Be Doing

Job Scope: The Mechanical/Piping Designer is generally responsible for supervision and technical direction over a team of designers when functioning as a lead designer. As lead designer, responsibilities will include total delivery of the mechanical and piping deliverables and services on time, within performance budget and meeting quality expectations. Duties may include performing advanced design work serving as a technical specialist for a complex design assignment. This level requires extensive progressive experience in mechanical and piping design and involves utilization of project controls for cost, schedule and quality of projects. This work will be performed under minimal supervision.

Primary Responsibilities will include but not be limited to:

• Familiarity with and utilizing 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.
• 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.
• Complete understanding of the skills and experience required to perform design functions.
• Proactively lead and coordinate the efforts of a design staff to achieve scope, schedule and budget objectives.
• Mentoring subordinates.
• Participating in squad checks to insure coordination between the design disciplines.
• Checking calculations made by other designers to ensure accuracy, conformance to codes, specifications, design criteria and conformance to good engineering practice.
• Determining construction quantities and provide construction cost estimates.
• Delegating work to designers in proportion to their technical skills and experience, then following up for support to ensure efficient progress and quality.
• Consulting with design leaders from other disciplines in proportion to their technical skills and experience, then following up for support to ensure efficient progress and quality.
• Participating in the planning of training programs, continuous education opportunities and professional development of staff.

Ideal Background

Education: Associate degree in Engineering Technology or Computer-Aided Drafting is preferred.

Certification: SPED (Society of Piping Engineers and Designers) Certification is preferred.

Experience: This position requires 15+ years of relevant industrial experience in mechanical/piping drafting and design.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities Required:

• Knowledge and application of piping materials.
• Design of moderately complex process and utility piping systems, especially those systems unique to the industry being served.
• Knowledge and application of piping supports and restraints.
• Flexibility analysis of piping system.
• 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 the mechanical integrity of piping systems.
• Selecting piping specialty items given the design criteria.
• Drafting of P&ID's and GA's.
• Design of piping limited specific equipment and inline instrumentation arrangements such as pump suctions and discharges, tanks, control valve stations, etc.
• Familiarity with specifications and installation details of construction bulk materials and equipment.
• Ability to create accurate mechanical/piping installation documents from the information found on vendor equipment drawings.
• Knowledge and understanding of work flow/information flow between disciplines.
• Knowledge and understanding of schedule constraints and information requirements for the production of all 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 a construction cost estimate, a detailed engineering schedule and a man-hour budget for a small project or an area for a larger project.
• 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 Hargrove Engineers & Constructors services.
• Working knowledge of 2D AutoCAD and Microstation.
• Proficient in the use of Microsoft Word, Excel and Outlook.
• Good communication skills, both verbal and written.
• Good presentation skills.
• Virtual team skills and cross divisional relationships are highly developed and able to provide interoffice execution support with no supervision. Interoffice execut