Piping Stress Engineer II - Field & Design Focus

Zachry Group; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Zachry Group in Houston, TX seeks a Stress Engineer II to review piping systems for thermal flexibility and vibration, perform formal stress analyses, and support piping designers with routing and supports. Responsibilities include field data collection, reporting, and client meetings. Travel to office and field environments is expected.

Strong communication and safety focus required. Minimum qualifications include a Mechanical Engineering degree and 1–3 years of stress analysis experience with

Qualifications

• Bachelor Degree in Mechanical Engineering.
• 1-3 year experience in Mechanical Engineering with understanding of stress analysis and system flexibility.
• Strong attention to detail and capable to perform detailed technical evaluations and drawing checking.
• Strong communication skills required to provide effective inter-discipline, client, vendor, and construction coordination on projects.
• Willingness to travel and work in office and field environments.
• Must be organized, self-directed, able to prioritize and multi-task, work in a team environment and take direction from others.
• Must maintain active status in a drug and/or alcohol testing consortium.

Responsibilities

• Review and analyze piping systems and components for thermal flexibility, vibration, supports, and other factors.
• Ensure piping systems conform to applicable codes and client standards.
• Perform ASME B31.1 and ASME B31.3 formal stress analysis using Caesar II software.
• Conduct informal (visual) stress analysis for large and small bore piping systems.
• Work with piping designers to optimize pipe routing on piping design including specifying required pipe supports.
• Specify engineered support equipment such as expansion bellows, spring cans, constant tension hangars, snubbers, and engineered piping supports including detailed review of vendor equipment design documents.
• Prescribe and evaluate piping loads on process equipment nozzles including ASME pressure vessels as well as on engineered and standard support steel.
• Prepare formal stress evaluation reports.
• Perform field surveys to collect required field data and assist with interpretation of engineering drawings and specifications in the field.
• Attend client, vendor, and internal team meetings.
• Ability to clearly communicate information and ideas verbally and in writing.
• Manage project schedules and budgets as well as provide weekly reports communicating project status, issues, and needs.
• Other duties as assigned

Skills

Stress analysis

Strong communication skills

Detail-oriented

Team coordination

Education

Bachelor Degree in Mechanical Engineering

Tools

Caesar II

Job description

Zachry Group in Houston, TX seeks a Stress Engineer II to review piping systems for thermal flexibility and vibration, perform formal stress analyses, and support piping designers with routing and supports. Responsibilities include field data collection, reporting, and client meetings. Travel to office and field environments is expected.

Strong communication and safety focus required. Minimum qualifications include a Mechanical Engineering degree and 1–3 years of stress analysis experience with