OLG Recruitment are currently looking for a Piping Designer to work for a major client based in Hersham. This is a long term contract role for approximately 12 months.
Nature and Scope:
- Accountable as Lead for the functional discipline of Piping and Layout on assigned projects.
- Accountable for delivering safe, fit for purpose piping designs to an agreed schedule and agreed budget.
- Working with external design centers in achieving low cost solutions in design and execution.
- Maintaining good communication and relationships with external design centers, to achieve seamless interaction and project completion.
- Maintaining good relationships and communication with upstream functions within the Operations engineering group.
- Developing design reuse strategies and products.
- Project engineering role assignment potential for small piping based single discipline projects.
- On site supervision of piping and equipment construction, supervising contractors and completing Operational Readiness Inspections (ORI’s).
DIMENSIONS
- Responsible for delivering Conceptual and final piping design packages on projects.
- Expert in field of Piping and Layout.
- Providing support to engineering centers as execution requires.
- Support European and Middle East Bid and proposal requests.
- Mobile to support multi center execution and project support.
PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
- Safety adherence to relevant specifications and standards for all piping designs
- Accountable for Piping and layout design and engineering scope
- Developing conceptual piping design and detailed piping design on projects.
- Model development in SP3D and leading model reviews internally and externally.
- Deliver piping design packages.
- Deliver Bid Plot plan layouts and studies as requested.
- Effectively communicate execution strategies, schedule issues and project requirements.
- Support Opportunity providing all required documents, estimates, functional strategy, functional deliverables.
- Issue project quality functional deliverable/activity list and function execution strategy.
- Interfaces with other leads engineers to ensure handoffs between departments are planned and fully understood.
- Ensures design basis adheres to the appropriate Engineering Procedures, Engineering Standards and Specifications, country and regulatory codes, and customer requirements.
- Assists with reviews and approvals of engineering changes when proposed.
- Acts upon approved design changes made by other functional groups.
- Before commencing activities ensure have all inputs and requirements to allow activity to proceed.
- Ensures design output references to codes, standards, specifications.
- Ensures quality deliverables from their department are delivered to the project.
- Complies with all Company issued work process and work instructions
- Drive to competitive under budget performance.
- Raise and communicate changes to scope/basis.
- Site attendance when required for inspection and or survey
- Global travel to operating plants for meetings and reviews or as required by the project.
JOB REQUIREMENTS
- A min of Higher National Certificates in relevant subject with around 7-10 years of piping design experience.
- Must be familiar with an engineering organization, the function of each discipline and how they interact and the function of the various support groups.
- Hands on experience of SP3D / PDS Piping software and associated modules
- Should have experience of developing basic and detailed plant layouts
- Construction experience in planning for installation and access of equipment.
- Should have experience of leading piping design and development of 3D model and leading model reviews.
- Experience of design verification of piping design and knowledge of industry codes and standards.
- Modularized design experience and skid design experience is desirable.
- Experience of both Pipe supporting and Piping stress work process
- Experience and knowledge to effectively communicate issues and ideas effectively.
- Experience managing contractors on site, maintaining safety and zero accident goal.
- Good written and spoken English and strong communication skills
- Must be able to travel with Europe & Middle East.